Nicole Froelich was just starting her first year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering in fall 2017, but she had heard about Interdisciplinary Engineering 170 from a few older friends.
So she knew the introductory design course—open …
Even though major media headlines have proclaimed 2018 as “the year of the woman” thanks to an unprecedented number of female candidates entering politics, real-world numbers paint a decidedly less rosy picture for gender equality overall.
For example, in 2018, …
Business is booming in China. The country with the world’s fastest-growing economy is also the largest exporter and home to some of the planet’s most ambitious public works projects.
Emerging as a world-leader in manufacturing and sustainable power, China offers …
Mara Domenech’s worst enemy might be power outages.
More than a year before Hurricanes Irma and Maria decimated Puerto Rico’s electricity infrastructure; one such power outage precipitated a fire that consumed Domenech’s lab at the Chemical Engineering Building of the …
Engineers, investors and innovators from around the globe gathered in the Southern California desert on Sunday, July 22, 2018, to test their prototypes for an ultrafast subterranean transportation concept at the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.
The private space exploration …
Walk by Union South and you might hear the faint buzz of power tools. It’s the hum of creativity in the UW Makerspace next door in Wendt Commons, where students design and build whatever they can imagine in a collaborative …
To understand why Kayla Huemer and Hannah Lider are such close friends, you need to look to the country in which the two recent University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering graduates will live and work as 2018-19 Fulbright Scholars.
In India, …
With a cutting-edge vehicle powered by custom electric motors, Wisconsin Racing won fourth place overall at the 2018 Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, Nebraska June 20-23, 2018.
For a second consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering student organization—officially, …
Safely packed away in the trailer of an 18-wheeler, a sleek and futuristic teardrop-shaped vehicle with a distinctive cardinal-red-and-black carbon-fiber shell is making its way from Madison, Wisconsin, to Hawthorne, California, to compete in the third SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition …
Buckingham U. Badger, or Bucky, for short, is the beloved mascot of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has worn essentially the same cardinal red and white striped sweater since 1940.
But during the summer of 2018, Bucky finally tried …