Close to 150 people from across the transportation landscape recently attended the 2022 Southeast Wisconsin Transportation Symposium, held at UWM and co-hosted by UWM’s Institute of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Twenty-four speakers—representing …
In September, Xiao Qin, professor of civil & environmental engineering and a Lawrence E. Sivak ’71 professor, accepted an invitation from Craig Thompson, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, to serve on WisDOT’s Wisconsin Automated Vehicle External (WAVE) Advisory …
Konstantin Sobolev, Lawrence E. Sivak ’71 Faculty Fellow and professor, civil & environmental engineering, and Jian Zhao, associate professor, civil & environmental engineering, will collaborate with the University of Texas at Arlington and a consortium of European universities on a …
Nathan Salowitz, associate professor, mechanical engineering, recently received the following three awards from NASA through the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. The awards support Salowitz’s research and a UWM student organization. A $25,000 award to support research into embedded inspection and …
A record 17 UWM students received scholarships from the Foundry Education Foundation (FEF) this semester. “The foundry industry needs innovative minds to create materials that advance sustainability, health and medicine, aircraft, and space exploration,” says Pradeep Rohatgi, UWM distinguished professor, materials …
Research coming out of the UWM Foundry Lab was recognized nationally with top honors at CastExpo 2022, held in Columbus, Ohio in April. Congratulations to members of the two research teams who won the following two Best Paper awards. Best …
In January, UWM’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation (IPIT) received two research awards from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Through these awards, IPIT will review and evaluate two programs that WisDOT carries out under state or federal rules; one …
At the invitation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Habib Tabatabai, professor, civil & environmental engineering and director of the UWM’s Structural Engineering Lab, will serve on an ad-hoc committee that will review the failure and collapse …
A semi-truck gets wedged under a concrete bridge canopy, causing an hours-long highway delay and incurring transportation costs by the trucking company. A large recreational vehicle slams into the side of a tunnel under a railroad bridge, injuring passengers and …
Habib Tabatabai, professor, civil & environmental engineering and director of the UWM’s Structural Engineering Lab was awarded $150K from the Wisconsin Highway Research Program for his study Improving Bridge Concrete Overlay Performance. In this study, he will evaluate, identify, and …
