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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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Jennifer Detlor
March 13, 2023

Jennifer Detlor Teaches with Added Intention

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Teaching Professor Jennifer Detlor officially began her new role this January. The Teaching Professor position is an exciting one, and Detlor plans to focus her attention on…

Lianyi Chen
March 10, 2023

New Vilas Associates Award to Lianyi Chen

Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering Charles Ringrose Associate Professor Lianyi Chen on his Vilas Associates Award! In his project, Metals Processing and Design Based on Nanoelements, Chen plans to initiate a…

UW Crest with engineering background
March 9, 2023

Spring 2023 message from Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair Darryl Thelen

Greetings! The Department of Mechanical Engineering has a lot of updates to share in spring 2023. The most exciting update is the move of the engineering mechanics and aerospace engineering…

WiscWind team members at 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition
February 28, 2023

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…

Adrienne and Edward Cole
February 27, 2023

Spotlight on Badger Alumni: Mechanical Engineer Edward Cole

At the close of Black History Month 2023, we’re spotlighting the story of a Badger family that began right here in Madison. Edward Cole (MSME’09; PhDME’13) completed his Mechanical Engineering…

HPVC test drive
February 10, 2023

Vehicle Club designs winter-ready 3-wheel bike

Each year the UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Team designs and builds a bicycle-like conveyance and competes in an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)-sponsored competition among schools. These vehicles are…

UW Crest with engineering background
January 6, 2023

Engineering Mechanics moves to Department of Mechanical Engineering

We are excited to share that the Engineering Mechanics program is moving to the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME). The College of Engineering has a long history of strong Engineering…

Professor Christian Franck and Assistant Scientist Jing Zhang examine an image of brain cells
January 4, 2023

Christian Franck awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation Program funding

Christian Franck, Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award, bringing the tally of ME faculty with 2023 DURIP awards up to two!…

Jizhe Cai working in the lab
January 3, 2023

Engineering team wins 2022 WARF Innovation Award

A team of UW-Madison engineers using carbon nanotubes to build armor that’s stronger than Kevlar was one of two teams that won 2022 WARF Innovation Awards. The team of Mechanical…

rowing pains ME
December 20, 2022

Senior Design’s ‘Rowing Pains’

It’s not every day that college students get to work with Olympians, but it was just part of the coursework for the ‘Rowing Pains’ senior design group. UW Mechanical Engineering…