At UWM, alumnae inspire next generation of women engineers Thirty College of Engineering & Applied Science alumnae gathered Aug. 1 at the Global Water Center for the third annual alumnae networking social. The cornerstone of the event was a chance… Read More

  Congratulations to Ilya Avdeev, associate professor of mechanical engineering, who has been named director of innovation at the new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. In this role, Avdeev –who has been instrumental in fostering entrepreneurship at UWM—will lead program development and… Read More

Yongin Sung, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, received a National Science Foundation grant of $356,242 in July. Sung is the PI on the three-year grant “Instrument Development: 4-D Near-Infrared Chemical Imaging Using Snapshot Tomography.”   The instruments, once… Read More

Congratulations to Ramin Pashaie, associate professor of electrical engineering, who was recently awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant is to study neuro-vascular interactions during Alzheimer’s disease. The project title is “EAGER: Optical and System Engineering Interrogation of Vascular Amyloid… Read More

Ramin Pashaie, associate professor of electrical engineering, was awarded a $265,000 federal grant from the Army Research Office, Neurobiology section, to continue research into brain functions. This is his second grant from the Army Research Office. His research is focused… Read More

Congratulations to Lingfeng Wang and Rob Cuzner. Wang, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, is being promoted from associate to full professor; Cuzner, Electrical Engineering, is being promoted from assistant to associate professor. Both appointments are effective Aug. 20. Wang directs… Read More

Wisconsin is a state that makes things. Manufacturing is one of our largest industries, employing hundreds of thousands of people. Among them are engineers, the people who design products and the equipment needed to manufacture them. Today, that process often… Read More

Through UWM’s College of Continuing Education’s College for Kids & Teens Program, 15 middle school students and nine high school students enjoyed Engineering Wonders in July, a two-week class co-taught by Chris Beimborn, UWM EnQuest coordinator and STEM outreach specialist… Read More

Three undergraduate engineering students were part of a UWM team that, with the help of NASA, launched an experiment into space on June 21. Congratulations to students Dan Cairns (mechanical engineering), Connor Nethen (electrical engineering) and Natasha Scannell (electrical engineering). The… Read More

Congratulations to Lei Schlitz, K. Vairavan, Brent Aussprung, and Srikanth Pilla, all of whom will be honored at the annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Alumni Awards in October. The four are among an accomplished group of 24 individuals and one organization… Read More