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September 6, 2023

College welcomes 18 new faculty

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering is thrilled to welcome 18 new faculty members during the 2023-24 academic year. They come from all over the world, bringing a variety…

UW Crest with engineering background
October 15, 2026

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Heather Kim

Heather Kim will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in January 2027.

UW Crest with engineering background
July 28, 2026

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Douglas Carter

Douglas Carter will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2026! Carter joins the department as an expert in turbulent flows and unsteady aerodynamics. His…

Chloe Dedic
July 21, 2026

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Chloe Dedic

Chloe Dedic joins Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in August 2026! Chloe Dedic’s research laboratory will focus on the design and application of advanced, laser-based measurements and nonlinear spectroscopy…

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June 26, 2026

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Shaoting Lin

Shaoting Lin will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2026! Dr. Lin’s research in the Extreme Soft Materials Laboratory has been focused on fundamental problems associated…

Kiffer Creveling
March 12, 2026

New Assistant Teaching Faculty: Kiffer Creveling

Christopher ‘Kiffer’ Creveling joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as Assistant Teaching Faculty in January 2026! Creveling completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah where he…

Adam Dempsey
September 3, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in January 2026! His research program is centered on sustainable, clean energy research – specifically low carbon…

So Yeon Kim
August 20, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: So Yeon Kim

So Yeon Kim will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! So Yeon’s research seeks to understand and engineer materials’ damage tolerance under open-system…

UW Crest with engineering background
July 3, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Harsh Sharma

Dr. Harsh Sharma will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2025. The Sharma research group will focus on integrating first principles and domain-specific knowledge with machine…

Weiyu Li
July 9, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Weiyu Li

Dr. Weiyu Li will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Alfred Fritz Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. Li’s expertise lies in theoretical and computational modeling of transport in…