November 7, 2024 Fall 2024 Newsletter Written By: Caitlin Scott Departments: Mechanical Engineering Categories: Community|Faculty|Research|Students The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s fall 2024 newsletter is now available online. Highlights from this issue include: Printed sensors in soil could help farmers improve crop yields and save money Assistant Professor Prateek Jaiswal, Assistant Professor Xiao Kuang, and Alfred Fritz Assistant Professor Weiyu Li, Focus on new faculty New ‘structures within structures’ foam softens a blow and bounces right back Out of the lab and onto the pavement: With wearable sensor, researchers study daily walking to mitigate tripping Professor Tim Osswald retires in Spring 2024 Mastropasqua earns ARPA-E IGNIITE 2024 award to transform waste plastic upcycling UW AIAA achieves 2nd place at Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico Engineering faculty are key players in four Research Forward projects – Bjorn Borgen Professor Christian Franck Wisconsin Baja 2024 SAE off-road racing competition A game-changing solution to a knotty problem in computational engineering Read the full PDF newsletter here or use any of the links above to access these stories from our community.