From Microsoft to MADtv, here are 11 UWM alums whose work you know
UWM alumni include many business executives and high-ranking public officials, such as the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Luis Arreaga.
College of Engineering & Applied Science
UWM engineer builds device to show how blood flows when we think
UWM engineer Ramin Pashaie’s device could help answer a particularly puzzling question – how blood is directed to the brain to power thinking.
UWM sensor could make detecting Ebola as easy as spitting
Junhong Chen, a UWM professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will use a sensor platform he created to detect water contamination to make the low-cost virus sensor.
Student entrepreneurs could change how athletes compete
The Student Startup Challenge provides funding and classroom support to help winners develop prototypes, mobile applications and business plans.
Dynamic Blade Technologies licenses UWM wind turbine energy-storage technology
Developed in the laboratory of Adel Nasiri, professor of electrical engineering, the patent-pending technology uses ultra-capacitors as an energy-storage element on the turbine.
At long last: A concrete that’s nearly maintenance-free
Scott Muzenski, a civil engineering graduate student, had been working on a new kind of high-performance concrete.
Engineering partnership touches lives of students, seniors
University researchers and a team of middle schoolers are working together to build a hand mobility device for seniors with disabilities.
UW-Milwaukee alum named Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella is remembered at UW-Milwaukee as an extremely talented graduate student.
UWM engineer does pioneer study on green manufacturing of electric car batteries
UWM researcher Chris Yingchun Yuan is investigating the environmental sustainability of the next generation of electric car batteries.
Exploring the cultural roots of philanthropy
How does a nonprofit organization operate in a society that has different notions of what philanthropy is?