Milwaukee Engineer Newsletter
Milwaukee Engineer rounds up our latest, newsworthy stories and event announcements. You can sign up for this e-newsletter and easily keep up-to-date on our faculty’s research, student achievements, alumni events, community engagement initiatives, volunteer opportunities and more. Sign up using the yellow button to the right.
Research
- Engineering research featured in the UWM Research Foundation 2023 Annual ReportThe research and intellectual property of several faculty members from the College were among those highlighted in the UWM Research Foundation 2023 Annual Report, which came out Feb. 29. These projects represent faculty who received funding or filed new patents …
- Amano, Al Hamad and Shaker talk wind energy with Spectrum NewsRyo 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 …
- Campus safety training available for instructional staffA campus safety presentation aimed at training instructors to address students in crisis and handle classroom disruptions that could lead to a violent incident is again offered this semester. Training will also discuss online and virtual disruptions to include threats. …
- NMDSI awards research funding to four college faculty and two studentsFour faculty members and two graduate students from the college have won a share of $575,000 funding from the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute for research projects ranging from voice-activated robotic manipulation to an early warning system that helps college …
- Remembering Tarun NaikTarun Naik, professor emeritus, civil and environmental engineering, passed away on Jan. 29, 2024 at his home in Wauwatosa. His area of expertise was in recycling of industrial waste materials into products, especially concrete. As founder and director of the …
- Dabagh lands $542,000 NSF Early CAREER Award for modeling virtual tumor tissuesCancerous tumors don’t happen in a vacuum. They develop in a cellular soup that can contribute to the disease’s progression. Mahsa Dabagh, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, knows this first-hand. Her specialty is computational modeling of how cells and organelles …
Teaching
- 17 mechanical engineering grad students earn ME Graduate Research Achievement AwardsThe Mechanical Engineering Department presented 17 students with Graduate Student Research Achievement Awards in November. The awards recognize students’ research accomplishments in 2022-2023, with publishing in journals being the main criterion. Department …
- Congratulations newest UWM Tau Beta Pi initiatesThe UWM Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, Wisconsin Gamma, held their joint initiation ceremony with Marquette University and Milwaukee School of Engineering on Saturday, November 4, 2023 at MSOE. Congratulations to …
- Congratulations to Ilya Avdeev and Roshan D’Souza, UWM Annual Fall AwardsThe outstanding community-supporting and research efforts of two College of Engineering & Applied Science faculty members were honored at the UWM Fall Awards ceremony Oct. 25 at the Zelazo Center. …
- CS Grad Students Win Best Sustainability App Award by ENGIE at HackIOWA 2023Congratulations to the following Computer Science graduate students who won the “Best Sustainability App Award by ENGIE” at HackIOWA 2023: Pranay Mandadapu, advised by Rohit Kate, associate professor, computer science …
- Spiegelhoff Wins First Place Poster Award at PECCongratulations to Yuting Spiegelhoff, PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering, who earned first prize at the 83rd Annual Physical Electronics Conference (PEC) for her poster entitled, “Fabrication and Characterization of Zinc-Phosphate-Hydrate …
- U.S. DoE awards excellent IAC proposal to Amano, Kada, Maache and SaadehStudents and faculty at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science have for the third time in a row been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy as national leaders …
Community Engagement
- Two faculty members giving UWM’s Science Bag shows this semesterJunjie Niu and Prasenjit Guptasarma will each present a show for UWM’s Science Bag series, a live show for older kids and adults that gets into the popular science behind everyday life. In February, Niu, associate professor, materials science & …
- Students turn lot into neighborhood attraction, with help from UWM and othersResidents of Sherman Park have a new place to meet and enjoy being outdoors, thanks to students from nine Milwaukee Public Schools who helped design and build a new community gathering spot at 55th and Center streets. They’re calling it …
- Teen girls get a taste of the engineering profession at UWM’s EnQuest campsEach summer, girls ages 13-17 from the Milwaukee area come to the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for weeklong summer camps, called EnQuest, and explore the diverse opportunities within the engineering profession. This summer, 23 girls attended the EnQuest …
- UWM honors Avdeev with award recognizing his public serviceCongratulations to Ilya Avdeev, who was selected by the university to receive the 2023 UWM Faculty Distinguished Public Service Award. Avdeev is director of innovation at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and affiliated faculty member at …
- 25 CEAS student athletes earn place on Horizon League Spring 2023 Honor RollCongratulations to the 25 students from our college who were among the 159 UWM student athletes on the 2023 Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll. Each has earned at least a 3.2 GPA in engineering or computer science while participating in …
- College welcomes Science Olympians from across WisconsinThe Wisconsin Science State Olympiad State Championship drew more than 1,200 high school and middle school students to UWM April 1. Close to 40% of students and their families arrived a day early to tour campus, visit research labs, sit …