Devesh Ranjan, a mechanical engineer and a leader at one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs, will be the tenth dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “We are…
University of Wisconsin-Madison spinoff company Type One Energy has published a comprehensive and robust physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power plant. The advance is an important and promising milestone that brings fusion power…
Many of the technological advances of the last century are the result of researchers unlocking different types of electromagnetic radiation, the waves—like x-rays, microwaves and infrared radiation—that carry energy throughout the universe. There’s one bit…
Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with unusual properties that rarely exist in nature. This advance will enable researchers to incorporate desired…
A new course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will enable engineers to make a greater real-world impact by equipping them to navigate complex problems that don’t have clear solutions…
A hospital’s emergency department swells with patients, a chunk of whom will need to be admitted to the facility’s inpatient unit. But decision-makers in emergency care face a dilemma: When…
Maggie Eggleston enjoys horseback riding, watching movies and reading mysteries—a fairly typical set of interests for a 16-year-old girl. But Maggie’s lived experience is anything but typical. Three years ago,…
A team of researchers across several universities has developed a new, efficient technique for peeling ultra-thin crystalline electronic membranes away from their substrates—an advance that opens the door to wide-ranging…
An aggressive push to advance fusion from university experiments into energy for the real world. A new group aims to tap experts in the Midwest and beyond to capture the…
By combining topology optimization and additive manufacturing, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers created a twisty high-temperature heat exchanger that outperformed a traditional straight channel design in heat transfer,…
With new interest nationally and in our state, there’s a nuclear energy renaissance in the works. Fission reactors already generate reliable and robust energy, without producing greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear…