Xiaowei (Tom) Shi, assistant professor, civil & environmental engineering, was recognized with the Ken Voigt Rising Star Award by the Institute of Transportation Engineers Wisconsin Section. The award will be presented at the next section meeting on March 5 at the UWM …
Congratulations to the Institute of Transportation Engineers, UWM student organization, which was one of the three campus groups honored with the “Emerging Student Organization Award” at the 2025 UWM Student Excellence Awards. Accepting the award on behalf of the organization …
UWM engineering students were well-represented at the Annual AFS Wisconsin Chapter Regional Foundry Conference & Expo, held Feb. 4 at the Brookfield Conference Center. Three graduate students were awarded named scholarships and nine other students received Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF) …
Alex Yasha Yi, professor of electrical engineering and director for research at the Connected Systems Institute, has received sponsorship from Invictus Innovation EV Technology to conduct research that could advance a new kind of computer microchip that moves information with …
Congratulations to Priya Premnath, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, who was named STEM Forward’s “Young Engineer of the Year” at a celebration on Feb. 11 at The Wisconsin Club in downtown Milwaukee. STEM Forward is a Milwaukee-based non-profit organization that inspires …
Spectrum News Milwaukee featured a story about the bacterial decontamination research of Troy Skwor, associate professor of biomedical sciences, and Qingsu Cheng, assistant professor, biomedical engineering. Cheng, who leads a USDA grant that includes Skwor, is quoted in the segment. …
Most of us never think about what happens after water spirals down a drain. But for the people who run wastewater treatment plants, keeping the promise of clean water is a race against time – and data. Treatment plant operators …
What happens when artists create with artificial intelligence while also interrogating it? A new Milwaukee exhibit explores that question through sculptures, prints, interactive pieces and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI. Nathaniel Stern teamed up with Sasha Stiles, …
Researchers and students in the college’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure & Transportation (IPIT) presented more than a dozen papers at the 2026 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC in January. The Transportation Research Board, a program of the National Academies …
Junjie Niu, professor, industrial & manufacturing engineering, recently showed Spectrum News Milwaukee how elements from the periodic table are combined to improve the performance of rechargeable batteries. Each element has different properties alone — and when combined — leading to …
