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Daniel Ludois
December 11, 2025

Powering progress: Engineer, inventor earns national recognition for transforming electric motors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has included a University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineer in its 2025 class of fellows—the highest distinction designed to recognize academic inventors’ accomplishments in patents, licensing and commercialization. Daniel Ludois,…

December 8, 2025

New tool illuminates dark website patterns designed to scam you and steal your data

Many internet users understand how to avoid digital pitfalls like catfishing, password hacking and malware. But not all the dangers in the digital world are so straightforward: For example, just browsing the web may set…

WEMPEC graduate students Xiaoyuan Zhang, Antonio Trujillo Parra and Ken Chen analyze the fault-tolerant motor drive they helped build as part of a NASA supported project.
December 5, 2025

Electric aircraft are on the horizon, and UW-Madison engineers are helping this emerging tech to take off

Redundancy is one of the core concepts in aviation engineering. Commercial aircraft are designed with multiple backup systems for hydraulics, electronics, flight controls, navigation, and fuel supply. The result is ultra-high reliability for engines and…

Akhilesh Jaiswal and Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser
December 1, 2025

Built with today’s tech, new type of memory is key in the future of optical computing

Electrical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed and tested an integrated photonic memory chip, a key component in realizing ultrafast photonic computing. The chip—which leverages parts and fabrication techniques already in use by…

UW Crest with engineering background
November 24, 2025

Focus on new faculty: Zheng Liu is using AI to give wireless chips a boost

Over the last few decades, it feels like the whole world has gone digital, with music and movies, radio and television broadcasts, and communications networks converting their signals to ones and zeros. But digital signals…

Students present at the ECE Undergraduate Research Symposium
November 17, 2025

With new opportunities, ECE is building a community of undergraduate researchers

One of the major draws for students selecting the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the chance to not only learn from some of the world’s most innovative scholars but also the chance to work side by…

Lei Zhou in her mechatronics lab
October 23, 2025

With NSF CAREER Award, Zhou aims to develop mechatronic systems that increase productivity in computer chip manufacturing

There’s a booming industry demand for microchips, which are used in virtually all electronic devices today. But meeting that demand is challenging for chipmakers, because current mechatronic systems have reached the limit for how fast…

Assistant Professor Michael Biehler talks with students during the 2025 Hackathon/Makerthon.
October 10, 2025

Hackathon Makerthon brings students together to solve industry challenges

Sleep was on Nicolas Greaves and his groupmates’ to-do list. But, with motors to test, force calculations to crunch, prototype components to 3D print and more, the tasks kept stacking up. In the end, Greaves…

Chirag Gupta
September 25, 2025

With NSF CAREER Award, Chirag Gupta is using next-gen materials to engineer high performance power semiconductor transistors

The world is quickly going electric, with everything from cars and trucks, heating and cooling systems, industrial motors and even some aircraft poised for electrification. But converting to electric power isn’t as simple as swapping…

Recent graduate Samir Rosas (PhDBME ’25) and PhD student Shovasis Kumar Biswas
September 25, 2025

Sensor shines light on potential biomarkers for ovarian cancer

When doctors diagnose ovarian cancer at an early stage, patients have a five-year survival rate of better than 90%, according to the American Cancer Society. That rate plummets as the disease progresses to further stages….