AI in Engineering & Computer Science
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword – it’s rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools in engineering and computer science education. At our college, students don’t just learn about AI, they find new ways to use it.
From designing smarter energy systems and advancing medical technologies to reshaping transportation and manufacturing, and discovering new materials with extraordinary properties, AI is woven into their academic journey from the very first semester.
Artificial Intelligence is also transforming how students learn and solve problems.
“Broadly, AI in engineering and computer science is about efficiency, discovery, and time-savings,” said Associate Dean Prasenjit Guptasarma. “It can streamline decision-making, predict outcomes, and even handle routine lab tasks with computer bots.”
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Data into Solutions
- From pixels to predictions: Students can uncover AI uses in the labCancer 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 …
- Shi’s work is transforming traffic data into road safety solutionsEvery time you drive a vehicle, one aspect of your safety comes from something you have little control over – other drivers. What if risky driving behaviors could be tracked as they …
Smarter Systems
- GPUs, edge computing, and the push for energy-smart AIOriginally 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 …
- How math and impatient driving inspired student’s award-winning startupJoel Roberts really hates sitting at red lights – especially the ones that hold you hostage while not a single car passes in the cross-direction. "Sitting in traffic bothers me," said Roberts, …
- Alum and Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA talks about making vehicles autonomousIt was while his father was recovering from surgery that a young Daniel Spiewak (’12 BS computer science) and his dad began learning computer programming together. They started with trial and error, …
Design with AI
- AI can put data centers on an energy diet with smart hardwareData 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 …
- AI speeds the hunt for better rechargeable batteriesRechargeable 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 …
What People Are Saying
Learning these methods will be useful no matter where I end up. Doing this research helped me see what’s possible.
UWM has provided me access to advanced tools and technologies that I never had access to. It’s been a great place to learn to explore and to grow in terms of research.
AI can be a powerful tool. But I want to emphasize that learning is only done through struggle. This is what education is. You don’t want to use AI tools to simply get to an answer and skip the fundamental parts.