Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Georgia Institute of Technology have been awarded a grant to develop a sensor that can be used to immediately detect the Ebola virus with a simple “spit” test. Junhong Chen, a UWM… Read More
Many employers say they have difficulty finding engineers and computer scientists. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is training the workers they need. Eighty companies, including some of southeast Wisconsin’s largest employers, will be recruiting students Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Spring… Read More
What will a good idea get you? At UWM, maybe your own company. The Student Startup Challenge provides funding and classroom support to help winners develop prototypes, mobile applications and business plans. Four of this year’s winning entries could change… Read More
Pradeep Rohatgi, Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who… Read More
MILWAUKEE – Dec. 11, 2014 – Renewable energy expert Deyang Qu has been named as the Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research, a collaborative appointment between the company, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Wisconsin Energy Institute… Read More
Junhong Chen, a Mechanical Engineering professor in UWM’s College of Engineering, was recently awarded an NSF Partnership for Innovation grant for $800,000. This type of grant is designed to foster collaboration between universities and industry to commercialize technology. Chen has… Read More
Erika Pliner has not let her four years of college go by without taking advantage of the vast opportunities offered here at UWM Engineering & Applied Science. Between being a member and captain of the Women’s Swimming and Dive team… Read More
It never occurred to Erica Pliner, a swimmer since fifth grade, that she might craft a solution to one of the challenges in her sport. That changed when a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee challenged Pliner’s class to come… Read More
Math and science aficionados created solar charged reading lamps for Engineers without Borders to deliver to people living off the electrical grid in Visiban, Guatemala. The project highlighted EnQuest, our summer engineering camp for high school girls. Future engineers turned… Read More
New Energy Innovation Center Aims to Make Milwaukee a Global Hub for the Industry. State awards Mid-West Energy Research Consortium $900,000 in grants for project. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Officials from the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium (M-WERC) joined… Read More