As part of Navy Week in Milwaukee in July, Rear Admiral Matthew Pottenburgh, stopped at the USR building for a short tour of the Rob Cuzner’s lab. Cuzner, professor, electrical engineering, has about $3 million in active grants from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Sea Command to find the right architecture for energy systems for electric ships. A group of media also showed up to tag along and hear what the admiral had to say about UWM’s energy research.
“There’s really not a naval ship that doesn’t have some kind of equipment on them that are specifically related to shipboard electrification,” Pottenburgh said. “And that research begins right here at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.”
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