FacultyResearch November 3, 2026 · 4 min read Tiny steel fibers help concrete high-rises stand up to earthquakes It’s easy to think of concrete buildings as some of the strongest structures around. Yet in earthquake-prone regions, they need the right structural reinforcement to avoid serious damage or failure. After more than 20 years…
Moonshot Securing critical resources Faculty October 21, 2026 · 4 min read Focus on new faculty: Carolyn Voter studies the intersection among groundwater, stormwater and urban infrastructure Carolyn Voter wants to create a better picture of how water moves through the world around us. Voter, who joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in fall 2026 as an…
Moonshot Securing critical resources AwardsFaculty September 28, 2026 · 3 min read With NSF CAREER award, Haoran Wei is developing a low-cost ‘first-step’ method identifying contaminated drinking water Every day, water utilities across the United States monitor our drinking water for harmful pollutants. Haoran Wei, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, wants to make that process more efficient….
Moonshots Engineering tomorrow's cures Moonshots Limitless distributed power Moonshots Embodied AI Moonshots Making quantum practical Moonshots Securing critical resources Moonshots Feeding the planet FacultyResearch September 24, 2026 · 7 min read Engineering Moonshots brings campus leaders together around six ambitious challenges Building a future powered by fusion energy. Delivering individualized therapies tailored to each patient. Feeding a growing global population. Making quantum technologies practical. Developing autonomous systems that enhance human capability. Securing the resources needed to…
Awards September 22, 2026 · 1 min read UW-Madison ranked 7th among publics in U.S. News undergraduate engineering rankings For the second straight year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering was ranked seventh overall among public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Engineering Schools undergraduate rankings. Individual undergraduate program rankings (among…
FacultyResearch August 28, 2026 · 5 min read With a body-hugging fit, an innovative composite can thwart lightning damage to aircraft hulls A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has designed a protective hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer composite “blanket” that could significantly reduce lightning strike damage and improve protective coverage for aircraft and other high-flying vehicles. The research…
AwardsFaculty July 31, 2026 · 3 min read With DOE early-career award, Jesse Hampton maps earthquake ‘family trees’ to understand their interconnection Whether studying microscopic fractures in the laboratory or earthquakes in the Earth’s crust, Jesse Hampton is interested in the same question: how are individual cracking events connected? Hampton, a recently tenured associate professor of civil…
FacultyResearch July 17, 2026 · 4 min read For farmers, effectively filtering ammonia from manure requires the right pH University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a new model that sheds light on why reverse osmosis systems recover some forms of ammonia from wastewater more effectively than others. Mohan Qin, an assistant professor of civil…
Students May 9, 2026 · 4 min read College of Engineering celebrates a record cohort of graduates prepared to shape lives On May 9, 2026, in the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, 1,000 engineering students gathered for a joyful celebration that, for many, marked the culmination of their studies and the beginning of…
April 21, 2026 · 2 min read Morgridges’ latest gift drives UW-Madison engineering building forward As work steadily continues on the physical foundations of the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a $25 million gift from two of the university’s most devoted supporters, alumni John and…