Residents 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 …
Each summer, girls ages 13-17 from the Milwaukee area come to the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for weeklong summer camps, called EnQuest, and explore the diverse opportunities within the engineering profession. This summer, 23 girls attended the EnQuest …
The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) awarded $175,000 in July to Qingsu Cheng, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, for a one-year research project to evaluate the risk of breast cancer during long-term space travel. The findings could help medical experts …
Congratulations to Ilya Avdeev, who was selected by the university to receive the 2023 UWM Faculty Distinguished Public Service Award. Avdeev is director of innovation at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and affiliated faculty member at …
In June, the National Science Foundation awarded $50,000 to Priyatha Premnath, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, for a one-year I-Corps project to determine the commercialization pathway for the repurposing of an anti-cancer drug for bone healing. The drug, UC2288, is an …
Congratulations to the 25 students from our college who were among the 159 UWM student athletes on the 2023 Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll. Each has earned at least a 3.2 GPA in engineering or computer science while participating in …
In June, Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, was awarded an additional $125K for his research in a sub-contract from Mississippi State University. Park is researching a solution to mitigate partial discharge in power electronics in shipboard power systems for the Office of …
Eaton Corporation awarded Rob Cuzner, associate professor, electrical engineering and computer science, $50,000 in July for a one-year project on extreme power conversion. The purpose of the project is to apply model-based methods to the design of variable frequency motor drives …
WTMJ featured the research of Robert Schneider and Xiao Qin in their June 23 story “UW-Milwaukee researchers receive $1.6M from US-DOT to study pedestrian, bicyclist safety.” Urban Milwaukee also featured the team’s research in their June 24 story “State’s Pedestrian …
Michael Nosonovsky was promoted to full professor in June. He is a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science. Nosonovsky is a pioneer in the new area of triboinformatics, which combines the …
