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Eric Kazyak lab tour fall 2023

Three new electrochemistry research labs open exciting opportunities for ME students

Three new electrochemistry-focused research labs are now open in Mechanical Engineering (ME), led by ME faculty members Eric Kazyak, Luca Mastropasqua and James Pikul. These labs are working together on…

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May 1, 2024

Wired for success: UW-Madison engineers ready for ECIC 2024

Badger engineers are returning to the 2024 Electrical Contracting Innovation Challenge (ECIC) following a historic first-place finish in 2023. “It was UW-Madison’s first time competing, and we were the first…

April 30, 2024

Undergraduate Q&A: Hussam Alessi

Hussam Alessi, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, shares his insights about his experience in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and his experience working as part of the…

Michael Sohn ME
April 25, 2024

Student Spotlight: Graduating Senior Michael Sohn

Michael Sohn is graduating in spring 2024 and…heading right back to the classroom in the fall when he begins medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He’s excited…

Eric Dubberstein
April 16, 2024

ECE senior earns prestigious NSF fellowship

Eric Dubberstein, a senior studying computer engineering and computer science, has won a prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is a…

April 15, 2024

ECE alum visits ECE210 class to share industry experience

Last month, UW–Madison Electrical Engineering alum Donn Dengel (BSEE‘82) traveled from Illinois back to the Badger state to share his industry experience with a group of current ECE undergraduate students….

operational laboratory in the chemical and biological engineering department
April 11, 2024

Laboratory construction brings constructive learning

For two years the new instructional lab and pilot plant for the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has been under construction. Named the John C. Kuetemeyer Instructional Laboratory and…

students in fermentation lab
April 5, 2024

Students draft the first fermentation lab

Down in the depths of the basement in Engineering Hall, something is brewing…. This semester, Brian Pfleger, a Karen and William Monfre Professor and a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of…

ME buckys bionic runners team at prosthetics plus
March 22, 2024

Bucky’s Bionic Runners pass the baton

Mechanical Engineering students Jamie Wolpert, Caroline Gillis, Logan Fitzpatrick, and Nicole Salata had a uniquely impactful task for their senior design capstone project. Their group, Bucky’s Bionic Runners, was asked…

Susan Hagness and Ian Cherkauer
March 15, 2024

ECE undergraduate, college-funded scholarship recipients recognized

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) undergraduate students who received scholarships funded through the College of Engineering were honored recently at a reception in Engineering Hall. Eighty-three ECE undergraduate…

EMA senior design lab spring 2024
March 5, 2024

A look at aerospace engineering in senior design

When the Engineering Mechanics (and Aerospace Engineering, EMA) program moved into the Mechanical Engineering Department in 2023, everyone was excited about the new opportunities for students across both programs. While both the…