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In fall 2025, College of Engineering incoming class among largest ever

Around noon on Sept. 2, 2025, visitors to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus likely witnessed a pretty stunning sight: a line of more than 1,500 exuberant engineering undergraduates—all wearing red “Wisconsin Engineering” t-shirts—stretching more than…

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Rendering of the Bjorn Borgen learning commons in the new Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center
September 22, 2025

$25 million gift sparks innovation in UW-Madison’s new engineering building, and beyond

Before Bjorn Borgen (BSME ’62) built a multibillion-dollar investment firm, before he settled out west in the Rocky Mountains, before he even set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, he was a teenager working…

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center
April 17, 2025

Breaking ground on Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center, UW-Madison College of Engineering begins new era of growth and impact

On April 17, 2025, a crowd of several hundred students, staff, faculty, university leaders, alumni and dignitaries kicked off construction of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering’s new building…

Katy Jinkins
February 24, 2025

Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree is bringing UW-Madison breakthrough to semiconductor industry

When Katy Jinkins graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a degree in engineering physics and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, she was only 19, a feat that…

David Grainger
January 18, 2025

Celebrating the legacy of alum, innovator and philanthropist David Grainger

David W. Grainger ’50 is being remembered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison community as a successful businessman and generous supporter of the university in myriad ways. Grainger died peacefully Thursday, Jan. 9. He was 97. “David Grainger was…

Mary Buckett
August 21, 2024

From undergrad to a revolutionary career: An MS&E alum’s impact and legacy

Mary Buckett took her education from UW-Madison and revolutionized transmission electron microscopy. From Chadbourne Hall to the laboratories in MS&E, Mary found community on campus. She later went on to…

Assistant Professor Quentin Dudley and graduate student Sarah Noga working in new Bluemke Family Biolab
March 7, 2024

The new Bluemke Family Biolab brings biological engineers closer together, literally

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is known for its collaborative spirit, and few researchers on campus demonstrate that ethos more than the biological engineers in the Department of Chemical and Biological…

H3X co-founders Eric Maciolek, Jason Sylvestre and Max Liben
December 4, 2023

Power players: UW-Madison trio’s innovative electric motors land them on Forbes 30 Under 30 list

Electric cars and trucks are slowly but surely finding their way onto roads across the world. But when it comes to air travel, electric aviation still has a ways to…

Phil Terrien and Matt Knoespel at Atrility Medical
February 13, 2023

Biomedical engineering alums find rhythm at design program spinoff

Five years after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matt Knoespel and Phil Terrien are co-founders and the engineering backbone of a medical device company that’s collected a slew of…

Michael Strand
December 9, 2022

Forbes ’30 Under 30′ honoree views window tint tech through sustainability lens

During his undergraduate years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael Strand (BS MS&E ’15) made all sorts of connections with faculty, fellow students and labmates. Perhaps the most important connection,…

William Doniger
October 3, 2022

Cutting edge: How an internship led one student from the factory floor to a national lab

Lawnmower blades and molten-salt nuclear reactors have little in common. But for recent PhD graduate William Doniger (PhDMS&E ’22), who currently researches corrosion-resistant materials and electrochemical sensors for next-generation molten…