Tag: students
Eight engineering students win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Five undergraduate students and three PhD candidates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awards. The eight recipients are:
• Kiersten Haffey (undergraduate, biomedical engineering)
• Emily Jewell (undergraduate, engineering …
Student-led start-up advances to top 20 in 2018 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Pyran, a company established by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the laboratory of George Huber, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made it past the semifinal round of judging …
In revitalized robotics course, learning is far from automated
The classroom was abuzz with activity as small groups of students huddled around their robots. The robots, which resembled small, motorized chariots, jolted to life and began driving various routes across the floor of the spacious, newly remodeled classroom in …
MS&E grad student Jun Li awarded Johnson Controls fellowship
A proposal to develop new implantable, biocompatible, rechargeable batteries using advanced 3D printing techniques has earned Jun Li a Johnson Controls Graduate Fellowship. The project aims to address one of the main technological challenges for implantable medical devices by creating …
UW-Madison team wins third place in 2018 Clean Snowmobile Challenge
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students won third place overall in the highly competitive gasoline category at the 2018 SAE International Clean Snowmobile Challenge. The Society of Automotive Engineers competition, held at the Michigan Technological University Keweenaw Research …
Engineering programs ranked
U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the nation’s top graduate programs, and UW-Madison placed 20th overall for engineering. This year, 11 individual disciplines within the College of Engineering earned top-20 spots among the rankings, including biological/agricultural…
UW-Madison students helping Project Home go solar with Re-volv
Equipped with carefully laid plans and a crowdfunding campaign, “solar ambassadors” at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are bringing solar energy to a local nonprofit.
In partnership with Re-volv, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, the solar ambassador student team …