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WiscWind team members at 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition

UW–Madison team advances to finals in 2023 wind competition

A group of students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison will again compete in the nation’s most prominent undergraduate-level wind energy competition for the eighth consecutive year. UW–Madison’s team, known as…

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UW Crest with engineering background
June 1, 2023

Baston named 2023 Astronaut Scholar

Materials Science and Engineering has exciting news to share about one of our undergraduate students, Josh Baston. From our previous blog post, we shared that Baston was the recipient of…

Concrete Canoe team members work together on building their 2023 competition boat.
May 19, 2023

Student Org Spotlight: UW-Madison Concrete Canoe

The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe team finished strong at the 2023 regional competition in Duluth, Minnesota this spring, taking second place overall, second place in prototype design, and second place in…

ME senior design spring 2023
May 15, 2023

Celebrating Spring 2023 Senior Design Showcase

Congratulations to all students who shared their work at the Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Symposium on Thursday, May 4th! Over the past year, 42 design teams comprised of nearly 170 students have…

May 10, 2023

Undergraduate Bao-Phong Nguyen receives award and fellowship for high-throughput materials testing

Undergraduate nuclear engineering student Bao-Phong Nguyen received the Best Undergraduate Nuclear Fuels and Materials Presentation award at the 2023 ANS Student Conference for his paper entitled “High-Throughput Study for Examining…

UW Crest with engineering background
May 8, 2023

Baston receives Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/ Faculty Research Fellowship

Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate student, Josh Baston is the recent recipient of a 2023- 2024 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship. The Fellowship provides research training and support to undergraduate students….

UW-Madison engineering students working on their ECIC proposal.
April 25, 2023

Badger engineers take on Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge

A team of six undergraduate students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department are participating in the Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge (ECIC)…

Isabelle Hanson at Nike
April 24, 2023

Student Spotlight: Graduating Senior Isabelle Hanson

Spring 2023 Mechanical Engineering graduate Isabelle Hanson knew what she wanted to do when she grew up from an early age, but she didn’t always know that she would be…

bucky's little thrusters full group
April 20, 2023

Bucky’s Little Thruster Design Blasts Off

One of the spring 2023 Mechanical Engineering Senior Design teams, Bucky’s Little Thruster, recently took second place in the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s annual Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program (APOP)…

UW HPVC team design innovation award
April 17, 2023

Competition Success Continues for UW Human Powered Vehicle Club

Congratulations to the UW Human Powered Vehicle club team on another triumph! April 14-15, 2023, the team competed at the ASME eHPVC competition hosted by Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA….

Summer 2023, UW-ECE, courses for every ece badger, Continue your academic progress by registering for ECE summer courses! blue sky with white clouds and yellow Memorial Union Terrace chair
April 13, 2023

ECE Summer Term offers wide variety of courses for ECE Badgers

What’s better than summertime in Madison?!  The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a great selection of summer courses that will keep you on your academic path while enjoying…