Slavens lab featured on Spectrum News

Spectrum News talked with Brooke Slavens, Richard and Joanne Grigg Professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently about her work with young manual wheelchair users. Slavens and her team are studying overuse injuries and ways to preserve their shoulder joints as they get …

ITAC, funded by $5.7 million federal grant, kicked off Feb. 25

Participants from seven community colleges in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois attended the first Industrial Training Assessment Consortia Kickoff meeting on Feb. 25 in the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. UWM received a $5.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to operate …

Dean visits Wisconsin legislators in Washington, D.C.

While attending the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Public Policy Colloquium in Washington, D.C. in February, Dean Brett Peters and UWM’s Chief Government Relations Officer Keri Duce had the opportunity to meet with Wisconsin Congressional Representatives Derrick Van Orden …

Students in the Rohatgi lab take honors at AFS regional conference

Students of Professor Pradeep Rohatgi, materials science & engineering, put their achievement on display at the annual American Foundry Society’s Regional Conference Feb. 5 in Brookfield. The lab members won both graduate scholarships and undergraduate Alec Buhler took the top prize …

Two recent alums become faculty members at UW-Green Bay

UW-Green Bay has hired two recent alums as faculty members in their Richard J. Resch School of Engineering. The school is part of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology. Md Rasedul Islam (’20 PhD, Mechanical Engineering) is an associate professor …