College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison

NEEP First Year Student Welcome & Orientation
2025-09-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Welcome new NEEP Badgers! We’re excited to welcome you into the NEEP community. Please join us on September 8, 2025 to learn about opportunities for undergrads, meet faculty, connect with your fellow first-year students, and enjoy some pizza!

Date: Monday, September 8, 2025Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PMLocation: Mechanical Engineering Building (Room TBA)RSVP here: https://forms.gle/MYmTLznGyPTFXPBh9

ECE Student Welcome!
2025-09-08 14:30 - 16:30 | Union South Varsity II and III, 1308 West Dayton Street, Madison, 53711
Kick off the semester with your fellow ECE students, staff, and faculty at a sweet welcome event! 🍦 Enjoy free Babcock ice cream, score some awesome ECE swag, and celebrate the start of a new year together. Check your wisc.edu email to RSVP by September 4!

See you at Union South on September 8!

BME Welcome Back Social
2025-09-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Engineering Centers Building Atrium, 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
All Biomedical Engineering undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to join us in celebrating the new academic year. Enjoy snacks and department giveaways in the ECB atrium from 2-4pm.

The Next Era: A Reception with Dean Ranjan
2025-09-03 17:30 - 19:30 | 631 East Chicago Street, Milwaukee WI 53202, 631 East Chicago Street, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
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You’re invited to join us for a special evening as we welcome Devesh Ranjan (MS ’05, PhD ’07), the new Grainger Dean of the College of Engineering, for a casual reception with fellow alumni in the Milwaukee area.

This is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the College, engage in meaningful conversations with Dean Ranjan, and network with fellow engineering alumni living and working in the region. Come celebrate the exciting future of the College of Engineering and be part of this growing community of innovators and leaders.Date: September 3, 2025Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (featuring brief remarks and Q+A)Location: The Italian Community Center, Courtyard/Galleria (631 East Chicago Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202)

Heavy appetizers and refreshments will be served. Complimentary parking is available off Jackson and Menomonee.

We look forward to extending a warm Wisconsin welcome to Dean Ranjan and help shape the future of engineering—together.

This event is free to attend.

Grad School Virtual Info Session
2025-09-03 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-08-06 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-06-04 09:00 - 10:00
Join us to learn more about graduate school with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison! We will be hosting virtual sessions on the first Wednesday of every month from June through December from 9:00-10:00am CST. Please RSVP here.

Those who attend will learn more about:

Mechanical Engineering Department programs overview (including department research overview)

Research MS and PhD program information

Professional (course-only) based MS program information

Admissions Information

Faculty & Graduate Student Panel

Q&A

Much More!

Questions? Email us at dept@me.engr.wisc.edu

NEEP Graduate Student Orientation & Ice Cream Social
2025-08-29 14:00 - 17:00
Welcome new NEEP grad students! Please join us on August 29, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM in ERB 106 for our grad student orientation. During the orientation, you’ll meet faculty and staff and learn about key academic resources. Afterward, stick around for an ice cream social with faculty and current students!

Friday, August 29Orientation: 2:00-4:00 PMIce Cream Social: 4:00-5:00 PMEngineering Research Building, Room 106RSVP here: https://forms.gle/v9wsY89mMkMAc3eJ6

New Graduate Student Orientation
2025-08-29 10:00 - 13:30 | 1153 Mechanical Engineering, 1513 University Ave, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics new graduate students are invited to join us on Friday, August 29th from 10:30-1:30pm in the Mechanical Engineering Building Room #1153 for New Graduate Student Orientation. Come meet your peers, interact with faculty, find out about graduate student services, learn about the Grad Student Advisory Council, or ask questions specific to you. This orientation will be the perfect way to jumpstart your degree with the Department of Mechanical Engineering! RSVP here.

ECE New Graduate Student Orientation
2025-08-29 09:00 - 13:00
Graduate Student Orientation offers newly enrolled ECE graduate students the support and resources needed to help transition to life as a UW-ECE graduate student. The event will provide information on payroll, benefits, student services and more. Lunch will follow the morning session.

All first-year graduate students are required to attend, except those enrolled in the MS Power online program.

First-year graduate students, check your wisc.edu email for invitation and link to RSVP.

Alumni Ice Cream Social
2025-08-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706
Hey, Badger Engineering Alum! We invite you to join us for an evening of reminiscing, networking, and delicious Babcock ice cream on Thursday, August 21st from 4-6pm at the Memorial Union Terrace. Alumni from across the college will have the chance to connect at one of the most beloved sites on campus.

Leadership from across the college will be on hand to chat with alumni and learn more about what paths they took after leaving campus, as well as share the latest department and college news.

Engineering alumni from all departments are welcome and encouraged to join in on the fun.

Register now

Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Deposition Facility Grand Opening
2025-08-05 13:30 - 14:00 | Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, 53711
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering invites you to join us on Tuesday, August 5th at 1:30 p.m. for the grand opening celebration of its Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Deposition Facility. The event will be held on the second floor of the Engineering Centers Building, and will include a short program, ribbon-cutting ceremony, and an opportunity to view the lab’s state-of-the-art AlN Agnitron MOCVD reactor.

ECE Research Seminar Series: Professor Carsten Ronning
2025-07-31 11:00 - 12:00 | 2321 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, 53711
2321 Engineering Hall

Ion beams for photonics and quantum technology

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Ion beam technologies are today routine methods in electronic device manufacturing, e.g. the production of a modern processor needs 20-30 ion implantation steps. On the other hand, the 21 st Century is considered by many to be the century of light following a century of developments in electronics. Therefore, Ronning will present several experiments for the manipulation of the optical properties of (nano)materials using ion beams, as well as corresponding strategies for the realization of photonic and quantum devices.

Bio:

Carsten Ronning

Carsten Ronning is full professor and director of the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He studied physics at the Universities of Bremen and Konstanz, and completed his PhD thesis entitled “Diamond-like materials prepared via mass selected ion beam deposition” in 1996. After holding a post-doc position at the North Carolina State University (USA), he performed intense research at the University of Göttingen on thin films, semiconductor physics as well as on semiconductor nanowires. He moved to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2008, where his group is today studying the synthesis, modification and characterization of nano-scale solids, where the optical properties of semiconductor nanowires and metasurfaces are in focus.

ECE Virtual Alumni Town Hall
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:00
ECE alumni, we hope you will join us for this one-hour event hosted by ECE Department Chair Susan Hagness. We have assembled an expert panel of ECE faculty who will share their perspectives as research leaders in the foundations of artificial intelligence and the computing systems that power AI. As AI continues to transform nearly every facet of modern life, ECE research advances are playing a central role in shaping its future. Join us to hear how ECE is driving innovation in AI and preparing students to live, learn, and lead in this rapidly evolving field. We welcome your questions for our panelists.

Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor (left)

Tsung-Wei Huang, Associate Professor (middle)

Robert Nowak, Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Grace Wahba Professor of Data Science (right)

Zoom registration information will be sent mid-July via email to alumni, so check your Inbox!

Questions can be directed to: Office@ece.wisc.edu

ECE Research Seminar Series: Dr. Oliver Burrow
2025-07-28 11:00 - 12:00 | 2321 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, 53711
2321 Engineering Hall

Compact Cold-Atom Platforms Enabled by Grating MOTs and Progress to Real-World Quantum Sensing

Abstract:

Laser cooling of atoms is the first step in a wide range of atomic and molecular experiments, where low temperatures enable precision measurements. Traditionally, laser-cooling apparatus were large, often approaching room-scale, but over the past decade there have been concerted global efforts, including the UK’s Quantum Hubs initiative, to reduce their size, weight, power, and cost to enable the real-world deployment of quantum technologies.

The University of Strathclyde developed the grating magneto-optical trap (gMOT), which replaces the traditional six-beam MOT optical-geometry with a single input beam and a diffractive optic. This greatly reduces system complexity, eases miniaturisation, and provides a large solid angle of optical access. Typical Rb gMOTs trap >10⁷ atoms from vapour and achieve microkelvin temperatures. Recent advances at Strathclyde include gMOT atomic fountains, optical lattices with the gMOT optic as the reflector, and integration with sub-wavelength RF cavities, paving the way for compact atomic clocks with stabilities approaching 10⁻¹³ τ -1/2.

Another challenge is achieving compact vacuum systems suitable for laser cooling. In collaboration with industrial partners, we have created centilitre-scale ultra-high vacuum chambers with integrated gMOT optics, demonstrating long operational lifetimes without active pumping. When combined with packaged electronics and beam-launch optics, these become true cold-atom platform subsystems, requiring only a power supply and a fibre-coupled laser input.

These platforms are now being translated into field-ready quantum sensors through UK academic–industrial partnerships. Applications include compact atomic clocks (gClock) and hybrid classical–quantum inertial navigation systems, with initial sea trials planned for 2025.

Bio:

Oliver Burrow

Dr. Oliver Burrow is a Research Fellow in the University of Strathclyde’s Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics Group. He completed his MPhys in Physics with Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester in 2011 before moving to the University of Liverpool, where his studies were developing a prototype atom interferometer to probe the dark contents of the vacuum under the supervision of Dr Jon Coleman, earning his PhD in 2016. That research group has since become a founding member of the AION and MAGIS collaborations, which are developing cutting-edge atom interferometers for gravitational-wave detection.

Since joining Strathclyde in 2015, Dr. Burrow’s research has focused on developing compact components for laser cooling, with a strong emphasis on knowledge exchange and industrial collaboration. He has played a key role in advancing gMOT optics with Kelvin Nanotechnology and in developing centilitre-scale ultra-high vacuum gMOT systems with CPI-TMD. These technologies have become integral to next-generation quantum sensors in the UK, and he is now leading efforts at Strathclyde with industry to deploy these cold-atom platforms as core subsystems in practical quantum sensors.

Dr. Burrow’s visit is hosted by ECE Associate Professor Jennifer Choy, and ECE Antoine-Bascom Professor and Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor Mikhail Kats

The Next Era: A Reception with Dean Ranjan
2025-07-15 17:30 - 19:30 | The Edgewater Hotel, Madison, 1001 Wisconsin Pl, Madison, Wisconsin, 53711, United States
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Please join us for a special evening as we welcome the new Grainger Dean for the College of Engineering, Devesh Ranjan (MS ’05, PhD’07) back to Madison.

This casual reception is an opportunity to connect with fellow alumni, engage in meaningful conversation, and celebrate the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the College of Engineering.Date: July 15, 2025 Time: 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Location: The Edgewater Hotel, The Sky Bar(1001 Wisconsin Pl, Madison, WI 53703)Heavy appetizers and refreshments will be served. Parking validations available.

We look forward to extending a warm Wisconsin welcome (back) to Dean Ranjan and help shape the future of engineering—together.

This event is free to attend.

2025 Simons Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy Retreat
2025-07-14 00:00 - 2025-07-18 23:59
The 2025 Simons Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy Retreat will be hosted from July 14-18, 2025 in the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pyle Center702 Langdon StreetMadison, WI 53706Get Directions

RegistrationTo register for the event, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/iU2na3CMBwRLErAA9

Accommodation

There is a room block reserved at the Graduate for this event. Please use the link below to reserve your room in the block at a discounted rate. Accommodation (Discounted Rate)

If you are eligible for state rate, use the link below.Accommodation (State Rate)

Graduate by Hilton Madison601 Langdon StMadison, Wisconsin 53703(608) 257-4391Get Directions

AgendaView the agenda here.

For questions regarding the event, registration, or accommodations, please contact Adelle Wright at adelle.wright@wisc.edu.

Learn more about the Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy here.

Talking Tech in the Twin Cities
2025-06-26 17:30 - 20:30
Ovative Group729 N Washington Ave., Floor 11Minneapolis, MN 55401

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Join fellow Badgers at an exclusive and collaborative in-person event where local experts will outline the skills, mindsets, and insights you’ll need to lead as new technologies continue to disrupt our working lives.

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Talking Tech in the Twin Cities is co-hosted by Wisconsin Business Alumni Board members Tim Bratland (BBA ’89) and Luke Anderson (BS ’98) in partnership with the Wisconsin School of Business, the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, and the College of Engineering.

ISYE & ME -Alumni Golf Outing
2025-06-13 10:00 - 17:00
The Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering are hosting a joint summer golf outing for our alumni. A portion of the proceeds will directly benefit our department’s general fund, which supports student organizations, scholarships, and more.

Please sign up for yourself and/or others, up to a foursome. Contact Caitlin Scott (cscott8@wisc.edu) or Jane Feller (jfeller3@wisc.edu) with any questions.

Odana Hills Golf Course

4635 Odana Road, Madison, WI 53711

Register Here

ME & ISyE Golf Outing 2025
2025-06-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Odana Hills Golf Course, 4625 Odana Road, Madison, Wisconsin, 53711
The Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering host a joint annual summer golf outing that engages Industrial Advisory Board members and alumni. Contact Caitlin Scott (cscott8@wisc.edu) or Jane Feller (jfeller3@wisc.edu) with any questions, .

This event is by invitation-only.

ISyE Annual Town Hall Meeting
2025-06-11 12:00 - 13:00
Join us to hear the latest news, including campus, college and department updates. We’ll share highlights from our undergraduate and graduate programs, with a special spotlight on some of the exciting research that’s been happening.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining this virtual meeting.

Register Now

Chemical Engineering 2025 Spring Banquet
2025-05-10 14:00 - 16:30 | Union South, Varsity I and II, 1308 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Congratulations to our graduating class of 2025. After years of hard work, the students and faculty are putting on the 2025 Spring Banquet for Chemical Engineering.

The banquet is in Varsity Hall I & II at Union South on the second floor. The banquet is directly after the graduation ceremony at Camp Randall. It involves lunch, faculty speaker, and a gift for students. Information about RSVP and guests will be available in the next few weeks.

BME 2025 Spring Graduation Lunch
2025-05-10 13:30 - 15:30 | Engineering Centers Building Atrium, 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The Department of Biomedical Engineering invites our new graduates and their guests to a celebratory lunch following the commencement ceremony at Camp Randall on May 10 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Graduating students will receive an email with information about RSVPing and picking up their graduation gifts. If you have questions, please contact Vishmaa Ramsaroop-Briggs.

Visit these sites for more information on:College of Engineering Graduate Recognition EventUW Spring Commencement

NEEP Graduation Celebration
2025-05-10 13:30 - 15:30
The Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics Department is excited to celebrate our graduates! Bring your friends and family, and join us for a buffet lunch as we recognize your hard work and achievements. This event will take place after the Camp Randall Commencement Ceremony and before the College of Engineering Graduation Recognition at the Kohl Center.

Saturday, May 10 | 1:30 – 3:30pm

Symphony RoomGordon Dining Hall & Event Center770 W Dayton Street

Please RSVP for the event here.

MS&E Graduate Celebration
2025-05-10 13:00 - 15:00
Mark your calendars for the Materials Science and Engineering Graduation Celebration at Steenbock’s On Orchard on Saturday, May 10 from 1-3 p.m. This event celebrates MS&E students between the university-wide commencement at Camp Randall and the College of Engineering’s Ceremony at the Kohl Center.

Graduates can be joined by a set number of guests. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP. More information to come, including a sign-up sheet for the event.

ISyE/ME Spring Commencement Brunch
2025-05-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Mechanical Engineering Building – Atrium, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, 53711
(Photo by Althea Dotzour / UW–Madison)

Attention all graduates! The joint Graduation Celebration with Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering will begin at 9:00am on Saturday May 10th, with remarks and student recognition from the ISyE and ME Chairs at 10:00am. Join us for brunch and show your family and friends where you have been for these last few years!

Please click here to RSVP.

ECE 2025 Graduation Brunch
2025-05-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Engineering Hall Lobby, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, 53704, United States
Engineering Hall Lobby

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is excited to celebrate our graduates by hosting a brunch for graduates, family, and friends prior to the commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium. Graduating students, please check your email in April for information about how to RSVP for this fantastic event. We welcome all of the celebrants to enjoy a full brunch buffet, photo booth, and hearty congratulations from ECE faculty and staff.

Summer and December 2024 graduates, we would love the opportunity to celebrate with you as well. Please email office@ece.wisc.edu to let us know you will be joining us!

Mechanics Seminar: Professor Yuri Bazilevs
2025-05-02 12:05 - 12:55 | 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1513 University Ave, Madison, 53711
The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Yuri Bazilevs is a professor at Brown University.

ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Timothy Long
2025-05-01 16:00 - 17:00 | 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building, 1513 University Ave, Madison, 53711
The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Professor Timothy Long is a professor at Arizona State University.
