Imagine the often grimy patches of earth under highway overpasses transformed to green spaces that help clean our drinking water source, store water after heavy rains, and provide a space for public agencies to grow trees. For their visionary, sustainable …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In July, the National Science Foundation awarded Yin Wang, assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering, and his collaborators with a three-year, $420,000 research grant to study the impact of corrosion inhibitors and corrosion products on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in drinking water. …
