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Making innovative and sustainable advancements in our understanding of the physical world

Global industry partners and U.S. government agencies (like the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation) entrust Badger engineers to design and conduct complex research into a wide range of theoretical and practical questions. Our faculty and student lab teams create a deeply collaborative research environment to study problems ranging from renewable energy to soft robotics and osteoarthritis to vehicle traction on the Moon.

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James Pikul, Eric Kazyak and Luca Mastropasqua

Mechanical engineering team earns $2.3 million in ARPA-E funding for electrochemical power transfer system

The United States electrical grid is fragmented, which means transferring excess power from one region to another is no easy feat. The U.S. Department of Energy is searching for promising…

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Mechanical Engineering Research – James Pikul