Tag College of Engineering
Network of neurons: a dynamic model of brain activity
Professor Barry Van Veen has applied signal analysis techniques to develop methods for identifying network models of brain function - essentially, traffic patterns of neural activity present in the human brain. Read More
Fast, flexible electronics for the next generation of gadgetry
This year's thin, powerful smartphone quickly becomes yesterday's underperforming battery hog in today's consumer electronics market. Read More
Sunflowers inspire more efficient solar power system
A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism. Read More
Million-dollar Keck Foundation grant funds UW–Madison genome research
An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research into creating synthetic genome "foundries." Read More
High-tech silver dressings ward off infection in wounds
Applied onto the business end of artificial skin, nanofilms that release antibacterial silver over time can eradicate bacteria in full-thickness skin wounds in mice. Read More
Printed photonic crystal mirrors shrink on-chip lasers down to size
Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that could give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency. Read More
Lake algae: What you don’t see can really hurt you
The strikingly blue algae that afflicted the Madison lakes last week hardly needs a danger sign to warn of its toxicity. Read More
With help from Milwaukee company, two engineers graduate with a head start
Two University if Wisconsin–Madison engineering graduates had a head start on promising careers even as they crossed the stage in the May commencement ceremony. Now they will join the ranks of engineers at Rockwell Automation. Read More
High-tech wound dressing fights infection in mouse trial
An ultra-thin layer of polymer impregnated with a surgical anti-bacterial aided healing by preventing infection in a mouse study performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference
Four UW–Madison students will meet with more than 30 Nobel laureates and 580 young researchers from around the world July 1-6 at the 62nd annual… Read More
Designing microbes that make energy-dense biofuels without sugar
With metabolically engineered microorganisms hungry for levulinic acid, rather than sugar, a University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical and biological engineer aims to create more sustainable, cost-effective processes for converting biomass into high-energy-density hydrocarbon fuels. Read More
Webinars focus on new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will hold a series of informational webinars on the new online master of engineering in sustainable systems engineering (SSE). Read More
Probe seeking life on Saturn’s moon earns student team a spot at international space conference
Somewhere beneath as much as 30 miles of ice on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extraterrestrial life could be waiting to be discovered under a subglacial ocean. And a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering mechanics and astronautics students want to be the people who find it. For their senior design course, Alex Gonring, Capri Pearson, Samantha Robinson, Jake Rohrig and Tyler Van Fossen designed a mission that would take a probe from Earth to deep below Enceladus’ icy surface, where an array of science instruments would look for carbon-based life. Read More