Civil and Environmental Engineering construction materials -- pavement analysis and design -- asphalt rheology and failure testing -- asphalt modification and durability -- asphalt concrete mixture design and analysis -- pavement performance evaluation and instrumentation
Asphalt Pavement Research Program, Construction Engineering and Management Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering Networking and Distributed Systems; protocols, algorithms and architectures of such systems, peer-to-peer systems, multicast services, network security, services for mobile and wireless networks and network measurements
Mechanical Engineering solar energy applications -- radiation heat transfer -- systems analysis -- computer simulation-solar processes -- energy load calculations
Solar Energy Laboratory
environmental design -- architectural design -- work environment -- construction information handling -- material evaluation -- mined land reclamation -- construction management -- construction inspection
Institute for Environmental Studies, Soil Science Surface and colloid chemistry of soils and sediments including: adsorption of inorganic ions at mineral/water interfaces, magnetochemistry of transition and rare-earth ions at the mineral/water interface, reduction/oxidation chemistry, macromolecular and colloidal chemistry of humic substances, metal complexation by humic substances, and sorption of nonpolar organic compounds by humic substances.
Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics magnetic resonance (MR) interventional procedures -- MR angiography and cardiac imaging - specifically designing real-time magnetic resonance acquisition and processing algorithms and systems for these procedures -- MR contrast mechanisms -- signal and image processing -- distributed computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
Industrial and Systems Engineering Dynamic behavior of machine tool drive systems -- Position control for automatic welding -- Noise generation/noise control in product design -- Machine tool structure control dynamics -- Dynamic loads in gears -- Environmental noise control -- Digital computer control of machines and processes -- Mini-computer and micro-processor systems design -- Guidance systems for industrial robots -- Robotics for space application -- Environmental control of humidity
Electrical and Computer Engineering electromagnetic field interactions with materials -- microwave and RF processing of materials (e.g., ceramics, semiconductors); see Using microwaves to speed materials processing, UW-Madison College of Engineering Annual Report, 2000. -- microwave vacuum electronics -- advanced vacuum cathodes and electron emitters -- microfabricated millimeter-wave and terahertz-regime vacuum electronic devices -- bio-electromagnetics -- innovative teaching methods, especially for electromagnetics
Materials Science Program
Engineering Professional Development trace chemical detection for forensic applications -- unique biosensors for non-traditional applications -- chemical engineering unit operations including mixing, drying, separations -- strategic R&D planning; biotechnology
Engineering Professional Development Windfarms -- Alternative Energy -- Power Electronics -- Rotating Machinery and AC Drives -- Distribution Engineering -- T & D -- Protective Relaying -- Electric Power Systems -- Substation Design