Congratulations to Bill Paczkowski (’22 Electrical Engineering), who won second prize and $5,000 in the La Macchia New Venture Business Plan Competition at UWM’s Lubar College of Business. Paczkowski presented his plan for Smart Count, a high-tech solutions platform that …
UWM mechanical engineering junior Jenna Van Hoogstraten took home first prize at a national competition showcasing original casting research. The competition—the International Journal of Metalcasting’s-Foundry Education Foundation Student Research Competition—was part of the American Foundry Society’s Metalcasting Congress, held April …
Over 250 UWM undergraduates presented the outcomes from their research collaborations with faculty and staff mentors via poster and oral presentations on April 28. Awards were given for Outstanding Presentations and UWM Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year. Two students …
Congratulations to the winners–and their faculty advisors—of the 2023 Student Research Poster Competition. This year’s competition drew 65 graduate and undergraduate poster submissions from students who worked with 34 different research advisors across all seven departments of UWM’s College of …
Nathan Salowitz, associate professor, mechanical engineering, was a guest on a TMJ4 segment on April 25, where he discussed how the late NASCAR Hall of Fame member Alan Kulwicki (’77 Mechanical Engineering) used his UWM degree to change the game …
In April, Brooke Slavens, associate professor, mechanical engineering, hosted 29 MPS students—from Golda Meir—in her Mobility Lab, where she introduced them to the scientific field of biomechanics. The students were on a STEM-related field trip spurred by National Biomechanics Day, a …
The UWM Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, Wisconsin Gamma held their joint initiation ceremony with Marquette University and Milwaukee School of Engineering April 22 at Marquette University. Congratulations to the following students from UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), awarded UWM’s Deyang Qu $900,000 in April to develop high energy density, all solid-state lithium batteries, which are considered to be the next generation of energy storage. Qu …
UWM industrial engineering students recently developed a way to save a Milwaukee-area company $840,000 annually. Last fall, in their senior design class, undergraduates Easton Dobson, Colin Haagensen and Ryan O’Day were charged by Oak Creek-based AAA Sales & Engineering with …
Nathan Salowitz, associate professor, mechanical engineering, was a guest on UWM’s Lake Effect Show for the segment “Celebrating the auto racing legacy of Wisconsin-born, Alan Kulwicki,” which aired April 11. According to Salowitz, Kulwicki’s intimate understanding of mechanical design and …
