Stories indexed under: College of Engineering

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• UW-Madison alumni ‘fired up’ about latest innovation May 8, 2008 After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next.
• Wisconsin biomedical engineering students design meaningful medical solutions April 30, 2008 When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Claire Flanagan graduates in May 2009 with bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering (BME) and biochemistry, she might display her diploma next to an equally prestigious document: a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Pi Mile Run benefits well water project in El Salvador April 10, 2008 As 255 University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along Lake Mendota.
• UW-Madison graduate programs fare well in annual U.S. News rankings April 2, 2008 A number of graduate programs and specialties at UW-Madison scored high marks in the 2009 "Best Graduate Schools" edition of U.S. News and World Report.
• Technology to predict strain gets a perfect model: Michelangelo’s ‘David’ March 19, 2008 For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's famous statue "David" in an analysis that proved simpler, faster and more accurate than previous methods.
• UW-Madison team ‘zaps’ competition with electric snowmobile March 18, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Clean Snowmobile team blew the competition out of the snow at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC) in Houghton, Mich., March 10-15.
• Professor named first scientific director of national nuclear research facility Feb. 28, 2008 Idaho National Laboratory has selected University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fuels and materials expert Todd Allen to lead its newly created Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) National Scientific User Facility.
• Off the hook: Stronger soft-plastic fishing lure reels in raves Feb. 21, 2008 Working with University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students, a Wisconsin entrepreneur has perfected a fiber-reinforced fishing lure that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic plastics from polluting waters nationwide.
• Two UW-Madison engineers elected to national academy Feb. 18, 2008 Two University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering faculty members are among the 65 engineers and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2008.
• Undergraduate inventors to compete Feb. 11 and 12 Feb. 5, 2008 Coming soon to the University of Wisconsin-Madison: new solutions for ice fishermen, potato farmers, tailgaters, laptop junkies and airlines - all invented by undergraduates.
• Students take leadership venture to South Africa Jan. 7, 2008 After more than 40 hours of traveling, 30 University of Wisconsin-Madison students arrived last week in Cape Town, South Africa to start a two-week adventure in South Africa's capital city that will include a leadership seminar and service projects.
• Engineer James Dumesic named to ‘Scientific American 50’ Dec. 17, 2007 James Dumesic, Chemical and Biological Engineering Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2007 Scientific American "SciAm 50" award for his innovative alternative fuels research.
• Friends, colleagues remember the late Denice Denton July 25, 2007 When Denice Denton arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the winter of 1987, she was the lone female faculty member in the College of Engineering. Nine years later, she left the university an internationally recognized researcher, teacher, mentor and, above all, champion of the underdog and on her way to becoming the first female engineering dean at a major research university.
• Engineers develop higher-energy liquid-transportation fuel from sugar June 20, 2007 Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth.
• Midwest transportation coalition addresses regional freight challenges June 5, 2007 Ten Midwest state departments of transportation have formed a coalition enabling them to tackle issues related to freight transportation.
• Student race car design team takes first place May 23, 2007 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Formula SAE Racing student vehicle team took first place at the international competition in Detroit.
• Resident bacteria may help clean phosphorous from lakes May 2, 2007 UW-Madison engineer Katherine McMahon is integrating her expertise in wastewater engineering and in biological systems to study the bacterial community in different eutrophied lakes — two in Madison and one in China — to learn more about how those bacteria affect phosphorus cycling in the lakes.
• Team seeks to add advanced microlenses to technology April 25, 2007 Most of us peer through lenses every day, but the “microlenses” devised by engineering professors Hongrui Jiang and Dave Beebe aren’t nearly so ordinary. Made of liquid and designed to be self-adjusting, these tiny lenses are a breed apart from their counterparts in eyeglasses and cameras.
• UW-Madison stellerator a step forward in plasma research March 9, 2007 A project by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has come one step closer to making fusion energy possible.
• UW-Madison engineer to head DOE fusion energy office March 1, 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has named a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor to lead its Office of Fusion Energy Science, located within the DOE Office of Science.

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