Josh Sharkey chose UWM because of the many opportunities to get hands-on experience in engineering. The senior has had paid internships at Aurora Health Care, Northwestern Mutual and took part in an international engineering co-op with Foxconn. Watch the video…. Read More

Janee Pederson (MS Engineering 2018, BS Civil Engineering 2014) is an environmental and water resources engineer who is working to transform former polluted industrial sites in Milwaukee into usable land. In this article about her work, she praises her mentor,… Read More

Brian Armstrong was recently named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the first faculty member at UWM to earn this honor. Armstrong—who is the inventor named on 22 patents with two others pending—is a professor and… Read More

Nationally recognized concrete expert Steven Kosmatka joined the college this summer as associate director of the Center for By-Product Utilization. Konstantin Sobolev, professor, civil & environmental engineering, was recently named as the director of the rejuvenated center. Kosmatka will support… Read More

This semester, the College of Engineering & Applied Science’s Computer Science Department sent a record 25 female undergraduate and graduate students to the annual Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest conference for women in technology. The event, held Oct. 2-4 in Orlando, drew 25,000 individuals… Read More

Renewable energy expert Deyang Qu was recently awarded a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund research on high-energy, solid-state battery systems for electric vehicles.  In his project, Qu, the Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research… Read More

In September, 50 Milwaukee-area high school students and their teachers visited the college and attended workshops on ergonomics and process engineering presented by Madiha Ahmed, industrial engineering lecturer and researcher. The students are participating in the Zoo Train Design Challenge,… Read More

Junjie Niu, assistant professor of materials science & engineering in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, was awarded the college’s Outstanding Faculty Research Award for the 2018-19 academic year. Niu and his 12-person research team at UWM are partnering… Read More

People in the United States experience more minutes of power outages than those living in any other developed nation – six time that of citizens of Italy, Germany, Japan and South Korea. Each day, power-grid outages of two or more… Read More

Undergraduate engineering students Philip Van Asten, Alissa Shortreed and Anthony Pierson (left to right) presented their research at the 2019 Bicycle and Motorcycle Dynamics Symposium at the University of Padova, Italy, September 9-11. Working in the Makerspace in collaboration with… Read More