New members of faculty and staff governance elected from the college

Hats off to the 12 faculty and one staff member who won positions in the UWM governance structure in recent elections. Members of the college newly elected to committee seats include: John Boyland, Woo-Jin Chang, William Musinski, Michael Nosonovsky, Wilkistar …

Students in the Foundry Lab shine at national meeting and competition

Seven students from the UWM Foundry Lab in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering attended CastExpo 2025, held April 12–15 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Organized by the American Foundry Society (AFS), CastExpo is North America’s largest …

Dabagh discussed AI on Chancellor Mone’s WUWM radio program

Mahsa Dabagh, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, was a guest on UWM Chancellor Mark Mone’s WUWM radio program, “Chancellor’s Report,” in March. She joined a discussion on using artificial intelligence in both teaching and administration with other guests, associate professor of …

Doctoral student goes whole Hog on fluid dynamics with Harley-Davidson

When it comes to motorcycles, Areej Khalil points out that fluid dynamics figure in almost every aspect. In her current internship at Harley-Davidson, the mechanical engineering PhD student is performing computational fluid dynamics analysis of the engine’s internal cooling system. …

Beimborn Graduate Fellowship awarded

Congratulations to Joely Overstreet, a master’s student in civil engineering, who has been awarded the Beimborn Graduate Fellowship in Transportation for this academic year. Overstreet, who was awarded $7,500, is researching how to improve pedestrian visibility from tall vehicles with Professor …

Wang and Ma tackle a new PFAS study funded by Department of Defense grant

Yin Wang, associate professor, civil & environmental engineering, and Xiaoli Ma, associate professor, materials science & engineering, are investigators on a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to improve the efficiency and precision of removing PFAS compounds from …