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Badger Solar Racing Car with student standing behind

Cross-college collab drives innovation: Badger Solar Racing

Badger Solar Racing is a team of dedicated undergraduate and graduate students from across the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison committed to building a solar-powered car for…

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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…

Group with Janssen 2024 Fall Mechanical Engineering Investitures
October 14, 2024

Outstanding Mechanical Engineering faculty earn professorships

Congratulations to the Mechanical Engineering faculty honored with new professorships at our 2024 investiture ceremony this fall. Grainger Dean of the College of Engineering Ian Robertson and John Bollinger Chair…

UW Crest with engineering background
August 2, 2024

UW-Madison leading ONR-funded project to improve additive manufacturing technology

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is leading a new $9.1 million project funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research that aims to enable broader usage of additive manufacturing technologies, especially…

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…

Darryl Thelen and Kate Fu at ME fall 2022 investiture
October 20, 2022

Recognizing exceptional Mechanical Engineering faculty

Mechanical Engineering highlighted faculty excellence with an investiture ceremony at the end of September. John Bollinger Chair of Mechanical Engineering & Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor Darryl Thelen…

Qilin Guo
May 9, 2022

PhD student receives 2022 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award

Qilin Guo, a mechanical engineering PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was named the 2022 recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. This biannual award is given by…

April 25, 2022

UW ME highlighted on Office of Science homepage

Exciting exposure for mechanical engineering assistant professor Lianyi Chen and graduate student Luis Izet Escano! The US Department of Energy highlighted the recent College of Engineering story on their electron…

June 9, 2021

Three projects selected for WARF Accelerator Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Grant

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced that three projects have been selected to receive development funding through the WARF Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Grant. From industrial robotics to improved 3D printing,…