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Students in front of Engineering Hall
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…

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…

UW Crest with engineering background
June 13, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Prateek Jaiswal

Prateek Jaiswal will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in November 2024! Jaiswal will establish the Experimental Fluid Mechanics Lab at UW-Madison. His research group will…

Thomas Breunung
June 10, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Thomas Breunung

Thomas Breunung will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2025! Breunung will establish the Dynamics, Structures, and Data (DSD) Lab at UW-Madison. He and…

ME Xiao Kuang
June 4, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Xiao Kuang

Xiao Kuang will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2024! Kuang will bring his talents to the Polymer Engineering Center and has research plans…

Yunus Alapan
October 3, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Yunus Alapan

Yunus Alapan will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! Alapan will establish the Bio-integrated Robotics Lab at UW-Madison. His research group works at…

Wei Wang
September 28, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Wei Wang

Wei Wang will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! Wang will lead the new Marine Robotics Lab at UW-Madison. Wang’s research group is…

Lei Zhou
June 1, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Lei Zhou

Dr. Lei Zhou will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023! Zhou’s research centers on the design and control of precision mechatronic systems for…

James Pikul ME
October 4, 2022

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: James Pikul

James Pikul will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in Fall 2023! Pikul’s research group seeks to make transformative advances in energy storage, energy conversion, multifunctional…

Xiaobin Xiong new ME faculty
July 13, 2022

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Xiaobin Xiong

Xiaobin Xiong will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2023! Xiong’s research focuses on bipedal robotic locomotion, including dynamic motion planning and feedback control…