UWM leads new NSF-funded consortium to research greener, high-performance concrete
Engineering
UWM engineer helps create sensors of foodborne bacteria using quantum dots
Qingsu Cheng, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is part of a team developing low-cost biosensors that can quickly identify foodborne bacteria using the fluorescence of quantum dots for detection.
UWM awarded $975,000 to expand its expertise in clean-energy workforce development
UWM is among 10 universities nationwide funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to launch a Building Training and Assessment Center.
Microsoft gives UWM $1.2 million for Connected Systems Institute at UWM
The gift will be used to educate and expand Wisconsin’s talent pipeline for Industry 4.0 manufacturing, which allows small and medium manufacturers to integrate new technologies into their production process.
UWM’s Junjie Niu awarded STEM Forward’s Engineer of the Year
MILWAUKEE_Junjie Niu, associate professor of materials science and engineering at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, was named the 2023 STEM Forward Engineer of the Year. The award recognizes outstanding contributors to the engineering profession from the greater Milwaukee area. STEM Forward is a Milwaukee-based nonprofit organization that inspires youth to pursue STEM careers. […]
Hamann named new executive director at Connected Systems Institute
Joe Hamann has been named the new executive director at UWM’s Connected Systems Institute.
College of Engineering celebrates its renovated research spaces
When UWM’s Engineering & Mathematical Sciences building opened in 1971, many of its 13 floors were dark and segmented into individual rooms. After a two-year renovation of the ninth and 10th floors, the new spaces, designated for research, are hardly recognizable.
Two U.S. senators get first-hand look at UWM’s energy research
Two U.S. senators recently received an up-close look at the federally funded, collaborative research being done between UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science and Badger Technology Group.
UWM engineering students create solution that saves company $840,000 per year
An Oak Creek manufacturing company had a major problem tracking inventory. A group of students from UWM solved it.
UWM engineering students save Wisconsin steel company $43,000 a year
Charter Steel implemented an idea proposed by a UWM student team that figured out a way for the company to reduce the cost of a heat-treatment cycle used to produce a particular steel.
UWM professor to help investigate cause of Arecibo telescope collapse
A UWM engineering professor has been chosen to serve on a committee that will review the failure and collapse of the mammoth radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last year.