Engineers Week 2024 brought students together to eat, play and bond

Students participating in the College’s Engineers Week, held Feb. 19-28, came together to celebrate innovation and socialize. They built marble runs with plastic tubing, used frosting and graham crackers to build an edible structure, browsed the numerous student organizations, and …

UWM Length of Service ceremony honors 29 in the College March 12

UWM’s Length of Service Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, March 12, in the UWM Union Wisconsin Room. The lively ceremony honors employees reaching work milestones in 2024, including Chancellor Mark Mone who is marking his 35th year at UWM. …

UWM foundry lab members stand out at AFS conference

Congratulations to doctoral student Swaroop Kumar Behera who received the George J. Barker Memorial Scholarship at the annual American Foundry Society, Wisconsin Chapter Regional Conference, on Feb 8. in Milwaukee. The scholarship, awarded annually, supports graduate-level education beneficial to the …

Amano, Al Hamad and Shaker talk wind energy with Spectrum News

Ryo Amano, professor, mechanical engineering, and his lab members, Saif Al Hamad and Omar Shaker, recently showed a reporter how they use the wind tunnel at the USR building to conduct research into wind energy efficiency. Wind energy is one of …

Researcher talks about Large Language Models Feb. 22 at 11 a.m.

Biomedical natural language processing (NLP) aims to make it easier to extract important information from unstructured texts like electronic health records, biomedical journal articles and regulatory documents, and to use this information to improve our lives. Tim Miller will describe …

Niu honored by STEM Forward on Feb. 13

Congratulations to Junjie Niu, Richard & Joanne Grigg fellow and associate professor, materials science and engineering, who was feted on Feb. 13 at an awards banquet hosted by STEM Forward. The Milwaukee-based non-profit organization that inspires youth to pursue STEM …

Milwaukee Engineer Valentines who tied the knot

Students come to college for their degree but leave with more than that. With so many people to meet in college, it’s not surprising that many lifelong relationships are formed. And, for some, that included finding “the one.” In honor …