Stories indexed under: Engineering

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• LaHood names Adams to ITS Program Advisory Committee March 22, 2012 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has named University of Wisconsin-Madison's Teresa Adams to the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee (ITSPAC).
• Nelson Institute awarded UW-Madison’s first S-STEM grant from NSF March 2, 2012 The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies has been awarded UW-Madison's first-ever National Science Foundation S-STEM grant for undergraduate scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
• Two engineers named to national academy Feb. 9, 2012 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today (Feb. 9) announced it has named two UW-Madison engineers to its 2012 class of new members.
• Satellite renamed to honor UW-Madison space pioneer Jan. 25, 2012 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have renamed their newest Earth-observing satellite after Verner Suomi, a longtime UW-Madison professor who often is called the father of satellite meteorology.
• Online engineering grad programs ranked No. 1 Jan. 10, 2012 U.S. News and World Report has ranked UW-Madison No. 1 for its online graduate engineering programs in the categories of teaching practices and student engagement, and student services and technology.
• Award supports study of internal-combustion diagnostic tool Jan. 10, 2012 For the past several decades, engineers have been investigating low-temperature combustion as a means of creating engines with diesel-like efficiency and no pollutant emissions. A UW-Madison mechanical engineering assistant professor has received a grant to study the process.
• Big Ten Network series to air Jan. 4, 2012 The Big Ten Network will debut "Impact the World," a powerful new original series that shifts the focus from the playing fields to the world stage, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8:30 p.m. (CST).
• Four receive honors from American Physical Society Dec. 27, 2011 Four University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are among 240 newly named fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed upon no more than half of one percent of the professional society’s membership.
• UW-Madison engineer receives Grand Challenges Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grant Dec. 19, 2011 A biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a $2.5 million Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grant through Grand Challenges in Global Health.
• Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion Nov. 17, 2011 Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that could lead to improvements in high-resolution 3-D imaging, signal processing, communications, energy harvesting, sensing, and actuators for nanopositioning devices, among others.
• Two named to receive 2011 Champion Awards Nov. 7, 2011 Douglass Henderson and Margaret Harrigan have been selected as winners of the 2011 Champion Awards, presented by the Women's Philanthropy Council (WPC) of the University of Wisconsin Foundation at the council's biennial forum on Nov. 2.
• Center helps identify economic impact of traffic on truck-borne freight Jan. 21, 2011 The 2010 Urban Mobility Report, the most accurate picture of traffic congestion in 439 U.S. urban areas, now includes information about truck delay and the economic impact of congestion specific to trucking.
• Designer aims to improve student-centered learning in engineering Jan. 19, 2011 When an exam comes back with an “A’” grade, most students are thrilled, and rightfully so. Yet all too often, it doesn’t take long for the information students diligently crammed to fade as they prepare for another exam, creating a cycle, for some, of studying for tests rather than actually learning.
• Suri named to IndustryWeek "dream team" Nov. 30, 2010
• New nano techniques integrate electron gas-producing oxides with silicon Oct. 19, 2010 In cold weather, many children can't resist breathing onto a window and writing in the condensation. Now imagine the window as an electronic device platform, the condensation as a special conductive gas, and the letters as lines of nanowires.
• QRM center gives Wisconsin company a bright future June 14, 2010 Five years and a series of joint projects later, an ongoing partnership between the UW-Madison Center for Quick Response Manufacturing and a Milwaukee company is having significant results.
• Astronaut, in Madison visit, to discuss NASA’s changing plans April 15, 2010 Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the last people to walk on the moon, will present a forceful case for manned space exploration in a talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, April 19.
• Engineers revolutionizing Third World housing and infrastructure featured at WARF Gilson event March 19, 2010 The recent earthquake in Haiti graphically demonstrated to the world how the impact of a natural disaster is magnified by poorly constructed housing and unplanned infrastructure.
• Collaboration to enhance patient safety during blood collection, transfusion Oct. 26, 2009 The National Institute of Health (NIH), Health and Human Services has awarded a $1.4 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant to SysLogic Inc., the UW RFID Laboratory and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin.
• Industrial engineering professor provides national expertise on the driver distraction threat Oct. 7, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison industrial and systems engineering professor John Lee spoke about the dangers of distracted driving at a Washington, D.C., meeting on the topic held Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. The meeting included representatives from the Obama administration, U.S. Senate and automotive industry, among others, and was a chance for Lee to discuss his area of expertise: technology-mediated attention.