Two alums honored in their work on behalf of sustainability by U.S. DOE

Farah Nourin (’22 PhD, mechanical engineering) and Ahmad Abbas (’20 PhD, mechanical engineering) were among those recognized for outstanding achievement in energy engineering with an Industrial Assessment Center Alumni Award.  While working on their degrees at UWM, Nourin and Abbas …

Milwaukee Engineer Valentines who tied the knot

Students come to college for their degree but leave with more than that. With so many people to meet in college, it’s not surprising that many lifelong relationships are formed. And, for some, that included finding “the one.” In honor …

Engineering firm GRAEF promotes two UWM alums to leadership roles

Two alumni from the college have been promoted to leadership roles at GRAEF – a Milwaukee-based engineering, planning and design firm – in the company’s structural engineering arm. Steve Rech (’00 MS and ’98 BS, Civil Engineering) serves as the firm’s …

CS alum Ahmad Tafti lands a ‘Eureka Award’ from Oracle

Computer science alumnus Ahmad Tafti (’16 PhD; advisor: Habib Rahman), who is now assistant professor of health informatics in the University of Pittsburgh, has received an Oracle Excellence Award for Research, one of several awards the company bestows on researchers …

Alumnus Reza Moini Earns NSF CAREER Award

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 …