May 15, 2025 Spring 2025 Newsletter Written By: Caitlin Scott Departments: Mechanical Engineering Categories: Community|Faculty|Research|Students The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s spring 2025 newsletter is now available online. This issue includes: At aircraft altitude, in sweltering heat and bitter cold, unique new engine lab is a testbed for futuristic sustainable fuels 3D-printing breakthrough mitigates three defects simultaneously for failure-free metal parts Focus on new faculty: Thomas Breunung studies nonlinear structural dynamics for myriad applications Art and engineering forge partnership for practical learning in Art Department foundry As international interns, Badger engineers learn the ropes of shipbuilding in Italy New mechatronics course prepares students for high-demand engineering jobs New hands-on course launches first-year students’ journey into aerospace engineering Engineering Mechanics + Aerospace alumni soar in industry roles Harnessing machine learning to target ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water College of Engineering honors elite alumni: Jay Flores and Rod Copes Team earns $2.3 million in ARPA-E funding for electrochemical power transfer system Undergrads gain hands-on research experience Faculty highlights: NASA award to Franklin Miller, ASME Rising Star to Ying Li, ASME CIE Excellence in Research to Krishnan Suresh, and Pavana Prabhakar is a Fulbright Scholar At UW-Madison, ‘relaunched’ flight simulator will take aerospace engineering education to new heights Read the full PDF newsletter here or use any of the links above to access these stories from our community.