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Mikhail Kats

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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Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández presenting her research
February 6, 2025

Meet grad student Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández: Studying biomechanics to help improve rehabilitation treatments

Stephanie Beth Hernández Hernández is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Graduate Engineering Research Scholar (GERS), she is advised by Peter Adamczyk, Mead Witter…

Group of college students and seventh grade girls smile for photo.
February 6, 2025

MS&E undergrads visit Verona Girl Scout Troop

On Wednesday, February 5, four MS&E undergraduates met with Girl Scout Troop 9100 at the Verona Public Library. Complete with a presentation and multiple experiments, the visit hoped to inspire…

January 30, 2025

Two ECE students advance to Three-Minute Thesis finals

Two PhD students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among nine graduate students who have advanced to the campus finals of the…

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…

Photo of Joshua Clark
January 27, 2025

Student Spotlight: ME student Joshua Clark finds passion in the amusement industry

One of the perks of a Mechanical Engineering B.S. degree is it gives you the skills, theories and knowledge to explore a wide range of engineering fields. This holds true…

ECE Prof. Venkataramanan tests student circuit board
January 17, 2025

Building the future of electronics

Within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students enrolled in ECE 342: Electronic Circuits II received an interactive learning experience in modeling and application…

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…

Students compact sand around a model
January 17, 2025

Art and engineering forge partnership for practical learning in Art Department foundry

A version of this story by Kari Dickinson was originally published by UW News and the School of Education. Mechanical engineering students gained practical experience casting screwdriver handles this fall…

Savannah Finley
January 9, 2025

Meet grad student Savannah Finley: Committed to contaminant-free drinking water for all

Savannah Finley is a PhD civil and environmental engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s a Graduate Engineering Research Scholar (GERS) and is advised by Assistant Professor Athena Nghiem…

January 7, 2025

ECE senior Jaime Campos wins Alliant Energy Erroll Davis Award

Over the last few years, University of Wisconsin-Madison computer engineering undergraduate Jaime Campos has kept busy; he’s interned at the biggest names in computer architecture, including NVIDIA and AMD, worked…