Tarun 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 …
Cancerous 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 …
Qian Liao, professor, civil and environmental engineering, talked about UWM’s part in the new National Science Foundation-funded Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine based in Chicago that will pull in expertise from the region to help create water technology to stimulate …
Spectrum News recently visited the college’s newly renovated research spaces on the ninth and tenth floors of EMS and met some of the people working there. The story quotes Andy Graettinger, associate dean for research, and Jerald Thomas, assistant professor, …
The College of Engineering & Applied Science is among 10 colleges and universities across the U.S. funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to launch a Building Training and Assessment Center (BTAC), in which technical college students will learn to …
The college welcomes Feng Guo, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, who also is a new member of the Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems. Guo specializes in high-efficiency and high-power-density multilevel converters, fast-charging technology, high-speed motor …
Junjie 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 & …
Two alumni from the college have been promoted to leadership roles at GRAEF – a Milwaukee-based engineering, planning and design firm – in the company’s structural engineering arm. Steve Rech (’00 MS and ’98 BS, Civil Engineering) serves as the firm’s …
Shamar Webster, a recent master’s degree graduate in computer science, co-created a factory-specific chatbox that allows workers at manufacturing plants to use natural language to interact with the production line and receive immediate answers to questions. Webster worked with Microsoft’s …
The college welcomes Sadia Nowrin, Teaching Faculty II in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Most recently, Nowrin was a doctoral research assistant at Michigan Technological University. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, user accessibility, and natural language processing. But …
