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Keke Long, PhD
November 24, 2025

Building public trust in self-driving cars: Keke Long wins award for research communication

Autonomous and connected vehicle technology can improve road safety, increase mobility, reduce emissions, and ease congestion, but are you ready to let go of the wheel? Would you be comfortable…

Berrin Tansel
November 3, 2025

Berrin Tansel: 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award recipient

MSCEE ’79, PhDCEE ’89 (BSChE ‘78, Middle East Technical University)Distinguished University Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, FloridaInternational University An environmental engineer and educator whose work in water conservation, recycling, contamination…

Colin Fitzgerald
November 3, 2025

Colin Fitzgerald: 2025 Early Career Award recipient

BSCEE ’11, MSCEE ’13, (BS Physics ’11, UW-Eau Claire)Global Principal and Technology Lead for Water Resource Recovery, Jacobs Engineering Group An environmental engineer who is an innovator and leader in…

UW Crest with engineering background
October 28, 2025

Alum guides future of environmental engineering master’s program

Jeffrey Starke (MSEnvE ‘01, PhDEnvE ‘11) is the new program director for the master of engineering in environmental engineering degree program. Starke is taking the role after leading the Master’s Across…

UW Crest with engineering background
September 23, 2025

UW-Madison ranks 7th among publics in U.S. News undergraduate engineering program rankings

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering was ranked seventh overall among public universities in the 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Engineering Schools undergraduate rankings. Individual…

David Noyce receives Wilbur S. Smith Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers
September 9, 2025

Noyce receives Wilbur S. Smith Award

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) has recognized Arthur F. Hawnn Professor of Transportation Engineering David Noyce with the 2025 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award. Noyce, who is…

Kyle East and other international interns with the Central Japan Railway Company
September 2, 2025

For undergrad, international railroad internship connects people and cultures

In the United States, a massive freight network conveys goods from place to place. But people? Not so much. Compared with countries such as China, Spain, France, Germany and Japan,…

WiscWind student org with the wind turbine they constructed
June 23, 2025

WiscWind participates in Collegiate Wind Competition 2025

After a year of design iterations, brainstorming sessions, and wind tunnel tests, UW-Madison’s WiscWind competition team wrapped up their year at the Collegiate Wind Competition in Boulder, Colorado. Although the…

Steve Loheide
June 4, 2025

Loheide Named NGWA 2026 Darcy Distinguished Lecturer

The National Ground Water Association and Groundwater Foundation has selected Steven Loheide as the 2026 Darcy Distinguished Lecturer. Loheide, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of…

Two women wearing fluorescent safety vests and red hard hats in a wooded area with a crane behind them.
May 21, 2025

Meet Meredith Freeby: Badger engineer for healthy rivers, habitats, & Great Lakes

Civil engineering is a career of problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration for public and environmental good. For water resources engineer Meredith Freeby, EIT, it’s also an outlet to…