UWM engineering students were well-represented at the Annual AFS Wisconsin Chapter Regional Foundry Conference & Expo, held Feb. 4 at the Brookfield Conference Center. Three graduate students were awarded named scholarships and nine other students received Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) …
Alex Yasha Yi, professor of electrical engineering and director for research at the Connected Systems Institute, has received sponsorship from Invictus Innovation EV Technology to conduct research that could advance a new kind of computer microchip that moves information with …
Congratulations to Priya Premnath, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, who was named STEM Forward’s “Young Engineer of the Year” at a celebration on Feb. 11 at The Wisconsin Club in downtown Milwaukee. STEM Forward is a Milwaukee-based non-profit organization that inspires …
Spectrum News Milwaukee featured a story about the bacterial decontamination research of Troy Skwor, associate professor of biomedical sciences, and Qingsu Cheng, assistant professor, biomedical engineering. Cheng, who leads a USDA grant that includes Skwor, is quoted in the segment. …
Most of us never think about what happens after water spirals down a drain. But for the people who run wastewater treatment plants, keeping the promise of clean water is a race against time – and data. Treatment plant operators …
What happens when artists create with artificial intelligence while also interrogating it? A new Milwaukee exhibit explores that question through sculptures, prints, interactive pieces and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI. Nathaniel Stern teamed up with Sasha Stiles, …
Researchers and students in the college’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure & Transportation (IPIT) presented more than a dozen papers at the 2026 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC in January. The Transportation Research Board, a program of the National Academies …
Junjie Niu, professor, industrial & manufacturing engineering, recently showed Spectrum News Milwaukee how elements from the periodic table are combined to improve the performance of rechargeable batteries. Each element has different properties alone — and when combined — leading to …
Rockwell Automation is renewing its founding partnership with UWM’s Connected Systems Institute (CSI) with a new $1 million, five-year commitment, bringing its total investment to $5 million since 2017. CSI connects engineering, business and industry partners around the industrial internet …
Two faculty members in the college were recently featured in the media, speaking on what a wider use of autonomous, or “self-driving” vehicles, in Wisconsin would look like. On Jan. 8, Xiao Qin, professor, civil & environmental engineering, commented in …
