The National Science Foundation awarded $50,000 to Nathaniel Stern, a UWM professor of mechanical engineering and art & design, in February for an I-Corps project that could enable 5 million small-scale farmers worldwide to participate in the global carbon and …
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 – …
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 …
Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, will receive $148,000 over two years in sub-contracted funding from Mississippi State University. The funding is part of a contract that MSU received from the Office of Naval Research. In this project—Development of Electrets …
Students and faculty at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science have once again been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy as national leaders in the areas of manufacturing and industrial energy efficiency, waste and water use reduction, smart …
In August, Shuaiqi (Roger) Shen joined UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science as an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He is an embedded systems researcher and his expertise will strengthen the college’s already strong collaborations with local …
As society increasingly turns away from fossil fuels to power cars, trains, machines and more, it is looking for advances in the field of power electronics and sustainable energy. In August, Chanyeop Park joined UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied …
Ryo Amano, professor of mechanical engineering and Richard and Joanne Grigg Faculty Fellow, was awarded $250,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp toward a three-year, $375,000 project to identify and generate new technologies to recommend to Wisconsin manufacturing industries and …
In May, members of a National Science Foundation-backed research center that focuses on energy solutions held their annual review meeting at UWM. One result was the addition of four Midwest members to this Industry/University Cooperative Research Center that aims to …
Deyang Qu, an internationally recognized energy-storage and renewable energy expert, was named a UWM Distinguished Professor in May. Qu is a Johnson Controls Endowed Professorship in Energy Storage Research and is chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in UWM’s …
