Representatives from four companies – Komatsu, Milwaukee Tool, Rockwell Automation and GE HealthCare – hosted events in September, giving students the chance to meet and ask questions of those who had finished their degrees and were now in the working …
For people who use manual wheelchairs, pushing the wheels is not just transportation – it’s independence and physical activity. But the repetitive force required can take a toll over time on the nerves in hands and wrists. Brooke Slavens, professor …
When you think of a microscope or a medical scan, you probably imagine peering into a hidden world — structures too small to see with the naked eye. But for Yongjin Sung, those tools are just the beginning. He’s building …
Data centers have a large appetite for electricity – and a bad habit of wasting it. Surprisingly, AI – the very thing that data centers power – could also provide the energy diet they need. With electricity demand climbing, Feng …
Originally designed for video games, graphics processing units (GPUs) now power much of today’s AI – from voice assistants to self-driving cars. Unlike regular computer chips, GPUs have thousands of small cores that handle many simple tasks at once. GPUs …
Rechargeable batteries power everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers. They are in-demand, but far from perfect. Improving them means finding the ideal mix of elements from the periodic table, each with unique properties alone and in combination. Like drug …
Tall vehicles – those that have a higher ground clearance than sedans – have larger-than-usual blind spots, and it poses a particular risk for pedestrians, according to a study by master’s student Joely Overstreet and her advisor, Professor Xiao Qin, both …
Cancer research often demands patience – hours of labeling 3D images, tracing tumor boundaries pixel by pixel before the real work can even begin. In Associate Professor Mahsa Dabagh’s lab, artificial intelligence is reshaping how researchers predict and treat disease. …
What if you could turn common metals, like steel or copper, into mini-solar panels by applying a coating? Professors Nikolai Kouklin, computer science, and Konstantin Sobolev, civil & environmental engineering, stumbled onto a way to do just that. The coating …
UWM Chancellor Thomas Gibson and WUWM general manager David Lee delve into what UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science has to offer in a recent on-air interview with Dean Brett Peters and Kayla Knudtson, an undergraduate in electrical engineering. Peters …
