A truck carrying an over-height load becomes wedged under a concrete bridge, causing debris to fall and leading to a bridge closure. An over-height tractor trailer slams into a train bridge, damaging infrastructure and halting traffic flow for hours. According …
Congratulations to Maddie Frank (’20 Electrical Engineering). In January, Frank—along with Kyle Jansson and JD Lang of UWM’s Prototyping Center—was issued a patent for a novel dust collection system for CNC routers. “UWM provided the opportunity to learn from the …
Brooke Slavens, who has collaborated for several years with students and faculty in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, has joined the college as an associate professor, mechanical and biomedical engineering. She had been an associate professor in UWM’s …
Joseph Layden had no formal computer science education when he began earning his master’s of computer science degree at UWM. Yet by the time he graduated, he had created an app in his capstone research project called SlippAway—a tool for …
Isaac Gonzalez used software that he learned in his engineering courses at UWM to solve a problem in a manufacturing plant. Work experience like Gonzalez’s is the kind that brought 56 UWM students closer to identifying and starting their careers …
UWM’s all-girls engineering camp recently caught the attention of Ansys, a software company that employs 6,000 people worldwide. In January, Ansys ran a story about the program, called EnQuest, which has addressed the gender ratio in STEM for 12 years. …
The Mechanical Engineering Department presented 17 students with Graduate Student Research Achievement Awards in January. The awards recognize students’ research accomplishments in 2021-2022, with publishing in journals being the main criterion. Congratulations to the following students and their faculty advisors: …
Congratulations to Jeff Kautzer (MS Electrical Engineering ’83, BS Electrical Engineering ’81), a long-time adjunct instructor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UWM and chief electrical engineer, GM Imaging Hardware Platforms, at GE HealthCare. Kautzer, who holds 30 patents, …
Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor and department chair, industrial & manufacturing engineering, was named the 2022 STEM Forward Engineer of the Year, an award that recognizes outstanding contributors to the engineering profession from the greater Milwaukee area. She will receive the …
Gilbert Roderick, associate professor emerit, civil & environmental engineering, died Oct. 16 in St. Anthony, MN. He was 89 years old. Roderick served UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science for 30 years, during which time he was president of …
