Patents issued to Chang, Sung, Silva

The UWM Research Foundation Awards in March recognized researchers campus-wide who were inventors for patents issued in 2020. Congratulations to: Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, who was awarded the patent Contamination Detection Device and Method. Chang collaborated with …

Ma, Wang awarded $247K to develop desalination technology

The U.S. Department of Interior awarded Xiaoli Ma and Yin Wang $246,919 in March to develop nanofiltration membranes for desalinating water. Ma is an assistant professor, materials science and engineering, and Wang is an associate professor, civil & environmental engineering, …

With boost from NSF, Chang’s clean water sensors head to industry

Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, was awarded $59,767 from Baker Manufacturing in Evansville, Wis. to develop and test a prototype of a heavy-metal sensor. The goal is to create a low-cost, portable, hand-held detector that could be used …

Salowitz awarded $37K to support student intern to work on water sensors

Nathan Salowitz was awarded $37,307 from The National Science Foundation through the Water Equipment Policy Center Industry-University Cooperative Research Center to support a student intern to work on a real-time water-sensor project that aims to provide early warnings of leaks …

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research on Water

What would the world be like without water? Disastrous, because every living thing on the planet needs water to survive. At the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science, our civil and environmental engineering faculty know this very well and …

Catalyst Grants boost research of Sobolev, Ma, Y. Wang, Yu

The UWM Research Foundation awarded five new Catalyst Grants recently; four faculty members of the College of Engineering & Applied Science are PIs or co-PIs on these projects. The Catalyst Grant Program focuses on areas in which the university has …

Niu receives Office of Research award for work in water-energy nexus

In June, Junjie Niu, associate professor, materials science & engineering at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, received one of UWM’s three 2020 Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Awards, an honor given to early stage researchers who have shown the …