College of Engineering news

Engineers play a critical role in solving challenges, whether they’re devising technology for the smart farms of the future, building fusion reactors to drive new sustainable energy possibilities, or creating…

When industrial engineering students hit the job market, employers are after candidates who can comfortably manage, analyze and act on data. The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the…

Machine learning is starting to creep into all sorts of applications in our everyday lives, from search engines and digital assistants to traffic alerts. In the near future, even more…

Power grids across the world are in transition. As renewable energy makes up a larger and larger share of energy output, grids need to adapt. But it’s not as simple…

Over the decades, computers have changed dramatically, shrinking from room-sized machines to the tiny phones we carry in our pockets. But behind the scenes, computing principles have remained the same….

Modern scientific computing applications, such as simulations, modeling, and artificial intelligence, are counting on a mix of heterogeneous processing units—like a combination of CPUs and GPUs—to enable capabilities that have…

For millennia, humans have used optical telescopes, radio telescopes and space telescopes to get a better view of the heavens. Today, however, one of the most powerful tools for understanding…

Researchers are in an arms race with hackers to create better and better security systems to prevent data theft, including things like dual authentication password systems, thumbprints and retinal scans….

Hailey Mendola is a rising industrial engineering junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose penchant for crunching numbers is leading her toward a career in manufacturing—ideally as a plant manager…

In 1958, physicist Phillip Anderson of Bell Labs first proposed a theory about wave diffusion that won him the 1977 Nobel Prize. Since then, the idea, known as Anderson localization,…