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…
Randy Homel (BSME’85) is now the CEO and Chairman of The Foth Companies, but he was once a badger engineering student attending lectures and lab sections. Fun fact: there are…
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Allison Mahvi was recently awarded a $2.5M grant from the Department of Energy on developing HVAC-integrated thermal energy storage systems. In the project, Mahvi is collaborating…
Christian Franck is the Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and runs the Franck Lab for experimental soft matter and cell mechanics. His research specializes in cellular biomechanics and in…
This summer, 60 high school students attended the annual Engineering Tomorrow’s Careers (ETC) camp program for aspiring people in STEM run by the UW Engineering Society of Women Engineers. During…
The Wisconsin Robotics team traveled to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Hanksville, Utah this summer to compete in the University Rover Challenge. The URC is an international competition…
Michael J. Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and runs the Energy Systems Optimization Lab. His lab seeks to improve the design, performance, and characterization…
Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering Christian Franck and his research colleagues in the PANTHER program were recently featured by Futurum Careers. The Futurum article explores why traumatic brain injury…
Congratulations to mechanical engineering graduate student Patrick Dills and Professor Mike Zinn on winning the Best Technical Paper award at the World Haptics Conference in Delft, Netherlands! The IEEE World…
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Ying Li was one of sixty of the most promising early career engineers from Japan and the United States invited to the National Academy of Engineering…
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….