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National Rankings and Honors
- Undergraduate program ranked as 12th best and graduate program ranked as 16th best in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report rankings.
- 45 college alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Faculty Quality
- 58 faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) or Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). Awards.
- 17 professors have been named to the National Academy of Engineering and three to the National Academy of Sciences.
- College of Engineering faculty and staff reported 178 invention disclosures in the fiscal year 2006. It was the seventh consecutive year that the college has recorded more than 100 patent disclosures.
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Research Excellence
- Annual research expenditures in excess of $112 million.
- Home to 44 research centers.
- Home to 14 research consortia with more than 280 industrial and government members.
Student Quality
- Students entering the College of Engineering have the highest composite ACT scores of any group of freshmen at UW-Madison.
- More than 50 percent of entering freshmen pre-engineers rank in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class.
- Seventy-five percent of students hold a co-op, intern or campus research position prior to graduation.
- UW-Madison engineering students won the national 2003 and 2004
FutureTruck Challenge;
the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
National Concrete Canoe Championship;
the 2004 and 2006
National Clean Snowmobile Challenge;
- Annual undergraduate entrepreneurship / invention competitions with the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, the Tong Prototype Prize, and the Tong Biomedical Engineering Design Awards.
- Annual undergraduate writing prize with the Steuber Prize for Excellence in Writing
Degrees and Degree Options Offered
The college offers degrees in the following engineering areas. Exact degree titles in some cases vary slightly from the area names.
| Engineering Area | BS Program | MS Program | PhD Program |
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| Biomedical Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Chemical Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Civil Engineering | BS | ||
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | MS | PhD | |
| Computer Engineering | BS | ||
| Electrical Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Engineering Mechanics | BS | MS | PhD |
| Engineering Physics | BS | ||
| Environmental Chemistry and Technology | MS | PhD | |
| Geological Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Industrial Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Limnology and Marine Science | MS | PhD | |
| Manufacturing Systems Engineering | MS | ||
| Master of Engineering in Engine Systems | ME | ||
| Master of Engineering in Professional Practice | ME | ||
| Master of Engineering in Technical Japanese | ME | ||
| Master of Engineering Polymer Science and Engineering | ME | ||
| Materials Engineering | MS | PhD | |
| Materials Science | MS | PhD | |
| Materials Science and Engineering | BS | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | BS | MS | PhD |
| Nuclear Engineering | BS | ||
| Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics | MS | PhD |
The College of Engineering also offers the following degree/certificate options:
- Astronautics option in engineering mechanics
- Biology in engineering certificate
- Certificate in international engineering
- Certificate in Japanese studies for engineering students
- Certificate in technical communication
- Certificate in technical Japanese
- Construction engineering & management
- Environmental engineering
- Fluid systems engineering
- Power track in nuclear engineering
- Radiation sciences track in nuclear engineering
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