When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch nut in tight quarters, or to loosen a rusted-tight one-inch bolt using a very persuasive lever.
University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate innovators will present 14 inventions on Feb. 9-10 in Engineering Hall on the College of Engineering campus as part of the annual Innovation Days.
They’ve become the subject of myriad YouTube “how-to” videos. Entire department of transportation websites explain how to navigate them. And, they elicit more than a little anxiety and confusion in the minds of drivers entering, circling and exiting them.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor has received the Order of Service Merit (red stripes medal) from the president of South Korea for his contributions to the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, a multi-billion-dollar river restoration project in that country.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering now has a podcast. Called the Badger Engineering Perspective, the podcast will feature faculty experts on a variety of topics, with a focus on how engineering expertise is helping people around the state.
Wendy Crone, a professor of engineering physics and interim associate dean of physical sciences in the UW-Madison Graduate School, has been named the school’s associate dean for graduate education.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $3.5 million grant to the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE), a consortium led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For the past several decades, engineers have been investigating low-temperature combustion as a means of creating engines with diesel-like efficiency and no pollutant emissions. A UW-Madison mechanical engineering assistant professor has received a grant to study the process.
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are among 240 newly named fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed upon no more than half of one percent of the professional society’s membership.
Under the right circumstances, the undergraduate student teams that won a University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering design competition can either help protect a family from the elements or a hockey team from a scoring play.
A biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a $2.5 million Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grant through Grand Challenges in Global Health.
While tall, bulky antennas seem like relics in an era of sleek, modern smartphones, they’re still an unfortunate necessity for American soldiers.
Deriving their inspiration from fields ranging from music and ice hockey to cross-country skiing and wind energy, eight University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate engineering student design teams will compete Wednesday, Dec. 14 for a top cash prize of $2,500.
Industrial and systems engineering professor Jeff Linderoth is working on a way to help computers make yes/no decisions faster by enhancing the standard algorithm computers use to solve a class of problems called integer programs.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering has announced a new program that will provide a two-to-one match of any gift made by a student or recent graduate of the college.
Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with “giant” piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that could lead to improvements in high-resolution 3-D imaging, signal processing, communications, energy harvesting, sensing, and actuators for nanopositioning devices, among others.
A successful campus-wide partnership will bring to the University of Wisconsin–Madison a powerful new electron microscope equipped to produce high-resolution, three-dimensional images of a wide range of biological samples.
On Friday, Oct. 14, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering will recognize 10 alumni who have made key contributions to their profession and to society.
Four UW–Madison professors have won awards from the American Chemical Society in recognition of research excellence.
Decades of rust, bent running boards and unreliable cable brakes and steering aren’t suitable for a campus icon.