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student doing hands-on work
March 20, 2023

UW-Madison engineering talent critical to state, national economic progress

Updated: March 20, 2023 Many of Wisconsin’s most notable companies have grown from family businesses founded decades ago into multibillion-dollar companies with an international reach—and engineers drive the innovations that…

Fang Liu working in the lab
March 16, 2023

Great minds converge here

We’re expanding our faculty expertise in energy storage, semiconductors, autonomous systems and data science … and we’re planning to grow for greater impact. Fang Liu arrived on the UW-Madison campus…

Students in hands-on power electronics lab course
March 8, 2023

Applying science to the art of teaching engineers

A sharper focus on the scholarly side of learning benefits not only students, but the discipline as a whole. “In research, taking risks is rewarded, because it may lead to…

Merci Schneider
February 8, 2023

Rising STARs

A new scholarship program invests in students who bring a wider range of experiences and perspectives to engineering. Merci Schneider is a first-year biomedical engineering student who plans to use…

October 31, 2022

UW-Madison a partner in $15 million effort to commercialize more university advances

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 14 Midwest universities to join the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) network—a program designed to move more discoveries from research laboratories into the…

October 26, 2021

Work of College of Engineering students and faculty featured in 2021 UW Cool Science Image Contest

Ten images and two videos created by University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff have been named winners of the 2021 Cool Science Image Contest. Among the winners are several…

Normarieli Passalacqua
August 13, 2018

After hurricanes, Puerto Rican scholars find second research home at UW-Madison

Mara Domenech’s worst enemy might be power outages. More than a year before Hurricanes Irma and Maria decimated Puerto Rico’s electricity infrastructure; one such power outage precipitated a fire that…

NovoMoto in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
June 7, 2018

UW engineering spinoffs win awards, including top honor, at Governor’s Business Plan Contest

A University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering spinoff won the grand prize and anther won a top award in its category in the 15th annual Governor’s Business Plan Contest on June 6,…

March 4, 2018

Most-ever College of Engineering faculty receive NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation has named nine promising University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering faculty members recipients of its prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards. These awards support early-career faculty who…

October 3, 2017

Major NSF-sponsored materials research collaboration receives $15.6M grant

A flagship University of Wisconsin-Madison interdisciplinary research center has received $15.6 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue groundbreaking research on materials. The grant will provide six years…