Isaac Gonzalez used software that he learned in his engineering courses at UWM to solve a problem in a manufacturing plant. Work experience like Gonzalez’s is the kind that brought 56 UWM students closer to identifying and starting their careers… Read more
UWM’s all-girls engineering camp recently caught the attention of Ansys, a software company that employs 6,000 people worldwide. In January, Ansys ran a story about the program, called EnQuest, which has addressed the gender ratio in STEM for 12 years…. Read more
The Mechanical Engineering Department presented 17 students with Graduate Student Research Achievement Awards in January. The awards recognize students’ research accomplishments in 2021-2022, with publishing in journals being the main criterion. Congratulations to the following students and their faculty advisors:… Read more
Congratulations to the 24 students from our college who were among the 157 UWM student athletes on the 2022 Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll. Each has earned at least a 3.2 GPA in engineering or computer science while participating… Read more
Congratulations to Jeff Kautzer (MS Electrical Engineering ’83, BS Electrical Engineering ’81), a long-time adjunct instructor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UWM and chief electrical engineer, GM Imaging Hardware Platforms, at GE HealthCare. Kautzer, who holds 30 patents,… Read more
Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor and department chair, industrial & manufacturing engineering, was named the 2022 STEM Forward Engineer of the Year, an award that recognizes outstanding contributors to the engineering profession from the greater Milwaukee area. She will receive the… Read more
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 –… Read more
Gilbert Roderick, associate professor emerit, civil & environmental engineering, died Oct. 16 in St. Anthony, MN. He was 89 years old. Roderick served UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science for 30 years, during which time he was president of… Read more
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… Read more
Congratulations to Junjie Niu, a Richard and Joanne Grigg associate professor of materials science & engineering. Niu is a corresponding author of a research paper on improving the energy density and extending the lifetime of lithium-metal batteries. Advanced Materials published… Read more
