A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With their lead gift—the largest single gift in college history—brothers and…
While there’s an industry trend toward electric vehicles, there are many mobility sectors—aviation, heavy-duty trucking, rail, off-road machinery, and marine, for example—that will continue to rely on internal combustion engines…
Researchers use an innovative set of machine-learning models to discover a record-breaking material for film capacitors, key components in many energy technologies. Key Takeaways The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley…
If Michael Biehler’s research is successful, he will help enable soft robotics that can self-assemble inside the human body, as well as dynamic, protective packaging for everything from food to…
Look at a solar farm, and it might be easy to see only row upon row of glossy panels. But there’s much more than meets the eye. Steven Loheide, a…
Thomas Breunung’s structural dynamics research has broad and impactful applications across multiple fields. In addition to applications in aerospace and energy harvesting, Breunung’s research can be useful for investigating phenomena…
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers has developed a thin, patterned, silicon-based component that excels at trapping non-visible light and could open up low-cost manufacturing possibilities for biochemical…
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have found a way to simultaneously mitigate three types of defects in parts produced using a prominent additive manufacturing technique called laser powder bed fusion. Led…
An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research initiative led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the first program in the world to comprehensively investigate how pulsed microwaves might injure the brain. PANTHER,…
During a September 2024 makeathon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab @ Wendt, dozens of volunteers from across the UW-Madison community created assistive mobility devices for…
Midway through an explanation of his research into some of the murkier corners of the mathematical universe, Alberto Del Pia cuts himself off. “I understand this is complicated,” says the…