The American Society for Engineering Education Manufacturing Division honored Satya Aditya Akundi, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, with the 2023 David Wells Service Award. Akundi is the eighth person to receive this award since its 2017 inception. The award is… Read more
In November, Rob Cuzner, Richard and Joanne Grigg Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems at UWM, discussed his research on microgrids with Spectrum News. Cuzner and his students shared the benefits of microgrids in… Read more
The Mechanical Engineering Department presented 17 students with Graduate Student Research Achievement Awards in November. The awards recognize students’ research accomplishments in 2022-2023, with publishing in journals being the main criterion. Department Chair Deyang Qu praised the students’ accomplishments, stating, “Your hard work… Read more
The Wisconsin Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers (WAEE) received the National Division: Best Student Chapter Support Award during the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) World Energy Conference and Expo held in Orlando, FL Oct. 24-27, 2023. The AEE… Read more
On Nov. 2 the College of Engineering & Applied Science showed off its newly renovated 9th and 10th floor research spaces to alumni, business and community partners. Dean Brett Peters noted that, in addition to sharing the incredible transformation of… Read more
The UWM Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, Wisconsin Gamma, held their joint initiation ceremony with Marquette University and Milwaukee School of Engineering on Saturday, November 4, 2023 at MSOE. Congratulations to the following College of Engineering & Applied Science students who… Read more
The outstanding community-supporting and research efforts of two College of Engineering & Applied Science faculty members were honored at the UWM Fall Awards ceremony Oct. 25 at the Zelazo Center. UWM Distinguished Public Service Award to Ilya Avdeev Ilya Avdeev,… Read more
Reza Moini (’15 MS Civil Engineering; advisor: Konstantin Sobolov) has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. An assistant professor at Princeton University, this award supports his work to understand and engineer a new generation of concrete composites, inspired by… Read more
Matthew Petering, associate professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, provided his recommendations on redrawing Wisconsin’s legislative maps using algorithms in an opinion piece picked up by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Petering’s research focus includes discrete event simulation, math programming, operations,… Read more
Congratulations to the following Computer Science graduate students who won the “Best Sustainability App Award by ENGIE” at HackIOWA 2023: The hackathon took place at the University of Iowa on September 23, 2023, and was comprised of 60 teams, 30… Read more
