Wisconsin Accelerator for Full-scale Electrification Research
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Procure and install the final components to complete a fully integrated microgrid lab testing facility. Build an additional testing facility for medium voltage research. Link testing facilities to capture energy, store and deploy testing lab in the research facility.
Simulated Rehab Facility and Lab
College of Health Professions and Sciences
Outfit a simulation space in the Clinical Simulation Center to ensure nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and athletic training students graduate with an interprofessional simulation experience every semester.
Maggi Sue winch system and winterization of the research vessel
School of Freshwater Sciences
The winch system will provide funding to equip the Maggi Sue with a system of winches to deploy all manner of sampling gear including monitoring buoys, 2 sensor platforms, atmospheric sampling balloons, aquatic robots and autonomous vehicles, etc.
At present there are no U.S. Great Lakes research vessels operating year-round. Winter data is therefore rare and represents a “dark” period in nearly all data sets, despite its being critical in understanding climate change, ecosystems, and other impacts on the lakes. This option will upgrade the haul of the vessel to Ice Class C and provide other upgrades to allow the Maggi Sue to operate 12 months of the year. This in turn will allow for more complete datasets, leading to vastly improved modeling of Great Lakes systems.
Great Lakes Observing System
School of Freshwater Science
Provide consistent reliable funding to UWM SFS to operate buoys. Program is at risk of being cut without consistent funding. The money is already allocated through NOAA but needs to be directed to UWM via GLOS.
Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice
College of Arts and Architecture
The Center will function as a resource for practice and learning, and will lend capacity to community organizations, neighborhood groups, planning entities, as well as to city and county government efforts seeking to mitigate and deconstruct racialized placemaking through equity planning practices.
Center for Advanced Manufacturing Excellence
Connected Systems Institute
With proposed development of a Center of Excellence (CoE) in Advanced Manufacturing, the Connected Systems Institute (CSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) will enable workforce development and drive regional economic development by advancing the deployment of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing.