College of Engineering news

When Daniel Rhodes finishes setting up his lab later in 2020, it will have some impressive equipment, including a giant inert-atmosphere glove box and a helium-4 cryostat with a 14-tesla magnet. But the most crucial…

Daniel Rhodes, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the U.S….

Superconductors are already changing the world—for example, they’re powering MRI machines and high-speed maglev trains. New types of superconductors promise even more advances in energy, transportation, computing and many other fields. That’s why Daniel Rhodes,…

The strangest physics on Earth is about to transform life as we know it. These days, you don’t have to look far to find the term “quantum”: Marketers have slapped the word on dishwasher pods,…

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new technique to map the quantum phase diagram in a promising class of quantum materials called Weyl semimetals by tracking “hotspots” in an unusual quantum phenomenon called the…

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…

In the fall of 2022, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials science and engineering students Anna Janicek, Simon Roemig, Sarah Tang and Griffin Tong formed a team for their capstone course. While the project, a two-semester requirement…

In a breakthrough that could expand the capabilities of next-generation electronics, a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering team has discovered a new bilayer 2D crystalline material that is both superconducting and ferroelectric. An electric current can…

In this unprecedented year, UW-Madison College of Engineering faculty, staff and students, like millions around the world, faced daunting challenges and profound disruptions to their lives due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. While 2020 has…