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August 14, 2026

History-Made: Badger Solar Racing Qualifies for American Solar Challenge

Badger Solar Racing reached an exciting, new milestone at the 2026 Formula Sun Grand Prix. For the first time in club history, the team qualified for the American Solar Challenge…

August 4, 2026

Wisconsin Robotics Moves Forward in University Rover Challenge

Set against the red-rock landscape of southern Utah’s desert terrain, Wisconsin Robotics debuted a newly designed competition rover at the 2026 University Rover Challenge (URC). After narrowly missing qualification the…

UW Crest with engineering background
July 20, 2026

College faculty reach career milestones

The College of Engineering is celebrating faculty and teaching faculty members who have received promotions, tenure and academic appointments in the 2025-26 academic year. These achievements mark important career milestones…

July 14, 2026

For the first time, UW-Madison hosts the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods

The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods June 22-25, 2026. The workshop, held at various locations each year since 1989, brings together…

15 students standing in front of rocket
July 8, 2026

WISP Puts UW on the Map with State’s First Liquid Rocket

First Place Finish After two years of fast paced development, WISP, the Wisconsin Space Program student org, competed at the FAR-OUT competition in Mojave, California with the first liquid rocket…

Wisconsin racing 2026
July 6, 2026

Wisconsin Racing 2026 competition

Wisconsin Racing finished the 2026 season with a historic 6th place finish at their annual competition! They proved themselves as one of the nation’s top engineering student teams with a…

Jennifer Choy, Chirag Gupta, Robert Jacobberger, Shubhra Pasayat, Bulent Sarlioglu, Eric Tervo
June 30, 2026

Six ECE faculty appointed to named professorships

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to recognize six faculty members who have been appointed to named professorships. These appointments recognize outstanding achievements in research, teaching,…

WA with car
June 23, 2026

Wisconsin Autonomous wraps up AutoDrive II Challenge, showcases strong teamwork

Wisconsin Autonomous has closed the chapter on their AutoDrive II journey, finishing 3rd Overall across the full five-year AutoDrive II Challenge! Final tally in 2026, Competition Year 5: Team President…

May 27, 2026

WiscWind team places second in Collegiate Wind Competition

A team of students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison won second place in the 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition and took first in the project development portion of the contest. Students…

Graduate student mentoring award winners (from left) Hangyu Li, Shengdong Liu, Inna Popova Saleh Alshammari, Eric Kastelic and Zilin Huang stand with Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Greg Harrington (center) at an awards reception
May 15, 2026

College recognizes graduate mentoring excellence

The College of Engineering recognized 25 faculty, postdocs and graduate student mentors at the second annual Graduate Student Mentoring Awards reception on May 14, 2026. The awards recognize faculty, postdocs…