The Wisconsin Department of Transportation awarded $75,000 to Xiao Qin for a 10-month project that aims to improve the state’s highway safety by further improving data analysis related to crashes. Qin is a Lawrence E. Sivak ’71 professor of civil …
On March 5, three undergraduate students who are enrolled in the new class Topics in Engineering & Applied Science: STEM Outreach volunteered at Discovery World Girls & STEM, an interactive event that drew 2,000 visitors. “We helped close to 200 …
Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, has brought to UWM a $1 million research project from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a clean alternative to the world’s most potent greenhouse gas—SF6. As the nation looks to strengthen and …
In February, Brooke Slavens, associate professor, mechanical and biomedical engineering, spoke to CTSI Discovery Radio for their episode “All in the Wrist: MRI & Motion Analysis Research Study.” Slavens and her clinical collaborators at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin …
The National Science Foundation awarded $50,000 to Nathaniel Stern, a UWM professor of mechanical engineering and art & design, in February for an I-Corps project that could enable 5 million small-scale farmers worldwide to participate in the global carbon and …
Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, has brought to UWM a $172,000 National Science Foundation-funded research study on electronic materials that function while being stretched, bent or compressed. The research could support the development of soft electronic technologies–such as biorobotics …
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 …
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 …
For the 15th straight year, teams of UWM civil & environmental engineering undergraduate students competed to create the most bendable concrete from scratch. Twenty students formed five teams that designed, mixed and poured original concrete formulas. Their finished products – …
Kenneth Neusen, professor emerit of mechanical engineering in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, passed away Dec. 9 at age 87. Neusen, a Milwaukee native, had worked as a nuclear engineer for Allis-Chalmers before joining the university’s small Energetics …
