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Mikhail Kats wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

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ME research administration team
January 31, 2025

Big research numbers made possible by the wizards behind the curtain

Mechanical Engineering is breaking departmental records with increases in research expenditures. The secret sauce may be the incredible team of research administrators toiling behind the scenes to make it all…

Adrien Couet
January 31, 2025

Couet leads material discovery panel during U.S. DOE roundtable

Professor Adrien Couet served as a panel lead in the “Foundational Science to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Innovation” roundtable hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Colleen Witzenburg
January 30, 2025

Witzenburg lands MIRA grant

Colleen Witzenburg, the Jane R. and John G. Mandula Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a five-year, $1.25 million grant through a Maximizing Investigators’…

Focus on ECE Faculty: Joshua San Miguel
January 28, 2025

ECE Focus on Faculty: Joshua San Miguel

Joshua San Miguel is an associate professor within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. San Miguel’s work lies within the field of computer architecture,…

Yuki Gao
January 28, 2025

ECE’s Gao receives IEEE AP-S doctoral research grant

Yuki Gao, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was selected to receive a 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation…

Aarushi Bhargava
January 27, 2025

Bhargava earns WARF Cardiology Challenge Grant

Aarushi Bhargava, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers receiving Cardiology Challenge Grant funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Route 66…

James Pikul, Eric Kazyak and Luca Mastropasqua
January 27, 2025

Mechanical engineering team earns $2.3 million in ARPA-E funding for electrochemical power transfer system

The United States electrical grid is fragmented, which means transferring excess power from one region to another is no easy feat. The U.S. Department of Energy is searching for promising…

APS-EGLS Poster Session
January 17, 2025

Student wins award for research on colloidal gels

A physics major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an undergraduate student in the Wisconsin Research Forward Team in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, junior Caleb Youngwerth has…

January 14, 2025

Meet grad student Elvis Umaña: Using data science to answer sustainability questions 

Elvis Umaña is a University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Graduate Engineering Research Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Umaña, who works in the labs of Conway…

Franklin Miller and Chloe Gunderson
January 13, 2025

Miller receives $1M NASA award for Vanadium Superconducting Heat Switch project

Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Franklin Miller recently received funding from NASA for his ‘Vanadium Superconducting Heat Switch for Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration’ project. The project period is September 2024 – August…