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
- College adds recruitment to K12 outreach efforts. How you can get involvedThis semester Madiha Ahmed, teaching faculty, industrial engineering, joined Chris Beimborn, K12 STEM outreach manger, in expanding our college’s recruitment efforts among local high schools. This is funded through the support of the Nadella Fund for Diversity in Tech Education, …
- College’s water researchers attain WEP funding for the coming yearFaculty in the college have received new funding from the Water Equipment and Policy Center (WEP) for 2025. The center awarded a total of $333,000 to five UWM research projects, in addition to three projects from Marquette University. WEP is …
- Tabatabai helped evaluate a mystery around collapse of the Arecibo TelescopeThe famed Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed on Dec. 1, 2020, when the 900-ton equipment platform suspended above the 1,000-foot diameter telescope dish crashed through the dish. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine formed a committee to …
- Polling apps: Taking the immediate pulse of student understandingYou’re giving a lecture on material that is particularly complex. How can you get a real-time gauge of the number of students who are following and how many are lost? A tool being piloted by the UWM Center for Excellence …
- Ways to amplify research and engage studentsResearch is an area where faculty have more control to grow resources but, of course, it isn’t that easy to write winning proposals. Here are some suggestions from Associate Dean Andy Graettinger to increase our research impact and involve undergrads, …
- Dean’s message from Nov. faculty meetingColleagues: This new CEAS newsletter will serve as a follow-on to the monthly faculty meeting updates. Concurrently we’re also launching a CEAS intranet web page where you’ll find relevant presentations and ideas from the meeting. As UWM quickly moves to …
Teaching
- Two new lecturers in computer science begin this fallWelcome Rohit Singh and Ayesha Siddika Nipu, both lecturers in the computer science department. Singh works at the intersection of mathematics and computer science. His work involves designing computationally efficient algorithms to derive meaningful information from …
- New master’s degree in connected systems engineering prepares students to ‘future proof’ their careersThe College of Engineering & Applied Science is now enrolling students for the fall launch of its new master’s of science degree program in connected systems engineering. This first-of-its-kind program …
- 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 …
Community Engagement
- Alum makes a gift to augment the college’s Kulwicki scholarshipsLouis Goss (’12 BS Mechanical Engineering), a stock car racer and co-owner of a Late Moderns racing team based in Green Bay, presented a check to Dean Brett Peters for nearly $4,300 that he and business partner Mike Hubbard raised …
- News outlet covers the effort to develop alternative to lithium batteries, using hempDeyang Qu, the Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research, was recently interviewed by the Cap Times news outlet in a story about UWM's partnership with Wisconsin Battery Company (WisBat). The team is developing a sodium alkaline battery capable …
- Doctoral students make energy fun for kids at Salam SchoolEight doctoral students from mechanical engineering – all members of the Association of Energy Engineers at UWM – took their love of engineering to a group of fifth- and sixth-graders at Salam School in Milwaukee last month. “The objective …
- Slavens lab hosts National Biomechanics Day at UWMFor the second year, Brooke Slavens, professor, mechanical engineering, and her lab members celebrated National Biomechanics Day, April 19, by hosting an event for 30 Milwaukee Public Schools high school students. Participants joined in hands-on activities to explore motion analysis, …
- 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 …
