Biosensor expert Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, and Ihnjea Choi were awarded a $25,000 UWM Research Foundation Bridge Grant for their startup company, Septillionth Inc. Choi is the company’s CEO. The grant will support Septillionth’s move from the …
UWM celebrated the inaugural class of Anu and Satya Nadella Scholars at a welcome event recently at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. Nine recent graduates from Milwaukee high schools were awarded full-ride scholarships to pursue tech degrees, which are being funded …
For the ninth consecutive year, UWM’s Computer Science Department supported female undergraduate and graduate students who wanted to take part in the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The event is the world’s largest conference for women in …
When he was an engineering student at UWM, Dr. Curtis Lueck, P.E. (MS ’77, BS ’75) found a mentor in his thesis advisor, Edward Beimborn, now a professor emerit, civil & environmental engineering. Beimborn, Curtis said, strongly influenced his education …
UW System has awarded Wilkistar Otieno, associate professor and department chair, industrial & manufacturing engineering, with a 2022 Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award. She was selected as the UW-Milwaukee honoree for this award and will be formally recognized …
More than 500 students, faculty and staff took part in the college’s Fall Welcome Fest on Sept. 22. The lively new event aimed to help students meet faculty in their home departments, discover student organizations related to their interests, learn …
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 …
For Javier Retana Jr., the chance to meet and talk to the vice president of the United States was an honor and a chance to represent the Latino community. Retana, a senior in civil engineering from Kenosha, is a first-generation …
Twelve Milwaukee Tool employees—all CEAS alumni—and a human resource rep—an alumna from Lubar School of Business—were on the EMS plaza Sept. 21 to help engineering and computer science students learn the wide variety of employment opportunities available at Milwaukee Tool. …
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 …
