Congratulations to Yi Hu, associate professor, electrical engineering, who together with Christina Runge, professor in the Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences at Medical College of Wisconsin, was awarded $163,946 from the National Institutes of Health for a one-year phase… Read More
In April, Ryo Amano, professor of mechanical engineering and director of UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center, was elected to “fellow grade” by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). This is the society’s highest grade, bestowed upon those in the profession of aeronautics… Read More
Faculty and staff from the College of Engineering & Applied Science are part of a community collaboration that is helping local high school students gain real-world engineering experience as they design a new water tower for the Milwaukee County Zoo…. Read More
On April 26, 42 middle- and high-school girls completed a Girls Who Code class at UWM, aided by 13 student volunteers –most of whom are studying computer science—and three instructors (pictured). The UWM chapter of this national, non-profit organization, which… Read More
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers visited Marcia Silva’s lab at the UWM Water Technology Accelerator on April 25. Silva is an adjunct assistant professor of both electrical engineering & computer science and industrial & manufacturing engineering. Four technologies were presented to the governor… Read More
Jie Yu, assistant professor, civil & environmental engineering, presented “Connecting Wisconsin of Tomorrow: Methods to Improve Public Mobility,” April 26 at a conference — The Future of Transportation in Wisconsin—held by the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at… Read More
Congratulations to Mandana Saravani (advisor Ryo Amano) who was selected in May to receive a 2019-20 UWM Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (GSEF) for $1,500. GSEFs are supported by philanthropic funds and awarded on the basis of a faculty nomination combined with donor wishes.
You could call it furniture, but describing the modular cubes that engineering and other UWM students are constructing in the campus maker space (located in the EMS building) as “building blocks” is accurate too. These multipurpose pieces range in size… Read More
Congratulations to Matt Hibbard(Computer Science, sophomore), who came in second place in the United States Bowling Congress 2019 Intercollegiate Singles Championship, in Dayton, OH, April 30. Hibbard, who bowls for the university’s Milwaukee Bowling Club, defeated four opponents to make… Read More
Congratulations to Dave McClanahan, faculty associate, electrical engineering, who was one of three co-inventors awarded a U.S. patent in March for “Arc fault circuit interrupter detector systems including super regenerative high frequency receiver.” The project leading to the patent was… Read More