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

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…

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Di Wu standing near blue body of water
September 21, 2023

Di Wu (PhDECE’22) selected as MLCommons Rising Star

Di Wu has been named to the inaugural “MLCommons Rising Stars cohort of 35 early-to-late-stage and recently graduated PhD students working at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and Systems research”. Wu,…

ECE students, faculty, and alumni at conference making "W" with hands
August 4, 2023

UW-Madison ECE provides strong presence at IEEE AP-S

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW-Madison was well represented at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting in July. ECE students…

Professor Barry Van Veen
July 28, 2023

ECE Professor Barry Van Veen retires

Professor Barry Van Veen has retired from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after serving the department for more than 30 years. Van Veen,…

David Anderson
July 20, 2023

ECE Professor David Anderson retires

After a prominent career spanning decades, Professor David Anderson retired from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2022. Anderson, an alum of…

Middle and high school students interact with electromagnetic displays set up by ECE graduate students
July 18, 2023

ECE hosts summer academy students

Middle and high school students from across the state visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-ECE) as part of Summer Academy 2023. The…

Spaceport America Cup AIAA sutdents
July 17, 2023

UW AIAA students compete at Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico

Students from the UW-Madison chapter of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) recently competed at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (also known as Spaceport America Cup) in New Mexico….

William "Nick" Hitchon, ECE Professor
July 11, 2023

ECE Professor William (Nick) Hitchon retires

In the spring of 2022, William (Nick) Hitchon retired from a profound career within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor, author, and innovator,…

Joan Cotter
June 19, 2023

Alumnus was there for first ECE computer class

Electrical engineering alumnus Joan (Donohoo) Cotter (BSEE ’59) was on campus for a pivotal event, though at the time she couldn’t understand its importance. She was a student in the…

Lei Zhou
June 1, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Lei Zhou

Dr. Lei Zhou will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023! Zhou’s research centers on the design and control of precision mechatronic systems for…

Michael Wang, Jinuan Lin, Chu Ma, Dajun Zhang and Michael Wang at the 184th Acoustical Society of America Meeting.
May 16, 2023

Chu Ma wins young investigator travel award

ECE assistant professor Chu Ma and four of her students attended the 184th Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Chicago in early May, 2023. Ma chaired a special session titled “Interaction…