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UW-Madison moves to 6th in national research ranking

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has moved up two places to sixth out of 920 public and private universities in the United States in university research expenditures, according to the National…

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December 16, 2024

ECE power converter project selected as WARF Innovation Award finalist

A research project by electrical and computer engineering researchers including Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professor in Engineering Education Giri Venkataramanan, Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor Jinia Roy, Dugald C….

PhD student Yutao Dong and Professor Xudong Wang working in the lab
December 16, 2024

Wang’s dendrite suppressing membrane nominated for WARF Innovation Award

A research project led by Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recent PhD graduate Yutao Dong, was selected as a semifinalist…

Ying Li
December 4, 2024

Ying Li recognized with ASME Rising Star award

Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Ying Li recently received an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering Award! The award recognizes “innovative work and dedication that significantly advances the engineering profession and…

Umit Yusuf Ogras
October 30, 2024

Ogras wins best paper award at Embedded Systems Week and receives Intel funding

Umit Y. Ogras, the Gene Amdahl Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the best paper award at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis…

Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang
October 29, 2024

Huang wins IEEE/ACM ICCAD most influential paper award

Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the recipient of the 2024 ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award from…

Krishnan Suresh
October 21, 2024

Suresh honored with 2024 ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award

Mechanical Engineering Mead Witter Foundation Professor Krishnan Suresh has received the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award for 2024! The ASME CIE (Computers and Information in Engineering) Division award recognizes…

October 7, 2024

UW team earns $2.5 million ARPA-E H2SENSE award

Mechanical Engineering Professor Scott Sanders and Scientist Matthias Beuting are leading a UW-Madison team that aims to develop novel sensors for detecting hydrogen gas leaks.  The team also includes Mechanical…

Corinne Henak
September 9, 2024

Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor Awarded to Corinne Henak

Congratulations to Corinne Henak, PhD on earning tenure and being promoted to an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Henak has been with the department since 2015 and…

Assistant Professors Chirag Gupta and Shubhra Pasayat examine a new ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor material
August 20, 2024

Pasayat and Gupta receive 2024 Early Career Innovator Awards

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has chosen ECE Assistant Professors Shubhra Pasayat and Chirag Gupta to receive 2024 Early Career Innovator…

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August 16, 2024

UW-Madison engineers receive $4.6M in DOE nuclear research awards

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded more than $44 million through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) in 2024 to support university-led nuclear energy research and development projects, including a…