November 27, 2023 Fall 2023 Newsletter Written By: Caitlin Scott Departments: Mechanical Engineering Categories: Community|Faculty|Research|Students The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s fall 2023 newsletter is now available online. Highlights from this issue include: Assistant Professor Ramathasan Thevamaran, Discovery opens door to ultralightweight protective materials Associate Professor James Pikul and Assistant Professor Lei Zhou, Focus on new faculty Associate Professor Ying Li, With transparent machine learning tool, engineers accelerate polymer discovery Assistant Professor Xiangru Xu, NSF CAREER Award aims to improve safety of autonomous systems Assistant Professors Dakotah Thompson and Eric Tervo, New center aims to expand the role of semiconductors Graduate student Vanessa Barton lands NSF fellowship Impressive student achievements by the UW Badgerloop team and the UW-Madison chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Read the full PDF newsletter here or use any of the links above to find these exciting stories.