College of Engineering news

To determine which genes are responsible for—or act as biomarkers of—a given disease, researchers must work their way through thousands upon thousands of genes, using previous scientific studies as their guide. After identifying a candidate…

Although many Americans dutifully deposit their plastic trash into the appropriate bins each week, much of that material, including flexible films, multilayer materials and a lot of colored plastics are…

Yang Lu likes to say that searching the human genotype for a biomarker of a given disease is akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Or, more accurately, needles—the set of biomarker…

In developing a versatile new electrolyte, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has taken the next step toward a more efficient, energy-dense battery that could supplant today’s ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries. This new battery type—an…

After setting out to create a flexible sensor that could aid his advisors’ examination of the mechanical forces behind traumatic brain injury, Sinan Candan hit a roadblock. While economical and useful, the sensor he’d developed…

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…

In 2022, a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, recorded real-time movies of extremely tiny nanocatalysts undergoing dramatic changes during carbon dioxide reduction reactions, which are an important step in making sustainable…

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…

As an industrial data science researcher, Kaibo Liu has devoted much of his adult life to improving quality in manufacturing systems and monitoring the health of machines. That changed in 2021, when the professor of…

In November 2024, a delegation from the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)—a unit responsible for U.S. Department of Defense cyberspace capabilities—visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Through a series of tours…