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Colin and Brian Peck

ECE student inspired to follow brother’s path after loss

Colin Peck, a senior studying computer engineering and computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found inspiration from the loss of his brother to help others. When Brian Peck, a…

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Hantang Qin
August 6, 2024

Qin lands early stage NSF grant for transfer learning project

Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation to…

Aviad Hai
August 1, 2024

Hai receives early stage NSF grant for nanofabricated brain sensors

Aviad Hai, a Vilas Early Career assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation…

Tony McDonald and Yonatan Mintz
May 14, 2024

McDonald, Mintz receive American Family data science grant

Tony McDonald and Yonatan Mintz, assistant professors in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, are among the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to earn funding in the latest round of…

Profile of Houqian Li in his lab office
February 29, 2024

Houqian Li Wins Inaugural ACS Early Career Postdoctoral Faculty Bridge Grant

With his eye on upcycling waste plastics into high-value chemicals, Houqian Li moves forward with his research with the support of a two-year grant in the form of salary for…

D2P mentor Aimee Arnoldussen (left) with Assistant Professor Josh Roth
December 20, 2023

Engineering faculty awarded Discovery to Product PRIME grants

Three Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty members have received funding from Discovery to Product’s (D2P) Piloting Research Innovation & Market Exploration (PRIME) grant program. The PRIME funding will allow the…

Ranjana Mehta
November 10, 2023

Mehta earns grants from National Academies, NASA

Ranjana Mehta, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use two new grants to address worker fatigue in the offshore energy sector and study…

palm of plastic pieces
November 7, 2023

CBE researchers receive grant to scale up new recycling technique

The REMADE Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) public-private partnership, has awarded a project led by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison $600,000 for a pilot-scale plant to demonstrate…

Kaibo Liu
October 5, 2023

Liu receives ONR grant to boost predictive maintenance with data science

Kaibo Liu, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a new research project to develop artificial intelligence techniques to aid predictive maintenance in…

Xiaoping Qian
October 4, 2023

New $3.7M DOE grant awarded to Qian and team

Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering’s Elmer R. and Janet Ambach Kaiser Professor and Associate Chair for Research Xiaoping Qian on his recently accepted award from the Department of Energy! This project…

Jennifer Choy and Mikhail Kats
August 23, 2023

Choy leads team awarded National Science Foundation Quantum Sensing Challenge Grant

The National Science Foundation has selected a proposal “Compact and robust quantum atomic sensors for timekeeping and inertial sensing” by an interdisciplinary team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers for…