Stories indexed under: Engineering

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• Mechanical Engineering Building project wins preservation award May 2, 2008 The addition to the 78-year-old Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison won an award from the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation at its annual awards ceremony this week.
• A weekend of success for UW-Madison engineering teams May 1, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison formula car, concrete canoe and steel bridge teams excelled in competitions the weekend of April 25-27.
• Recent sightings: Human Powered Vehicle Challenge April 29, 2008
• Rethinking disaster management by focusing on development April 24, 2008 How we think about a disaster stems from the origin of the word itself: "Disastro" is the Latin word meaning "from the stars."
• UW-Madison will host human-powered vehicle challenge April 23, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison this weekend will host the 25th annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.
• UW-Madison part of DOE-funded ‘microgrid’ collaboration April 23, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers will collaborate with industrial and government partners on a $14 million project to implement a microgrid power backup system at the nation's fifth-largest incarceration facility-the Santa Rita Jail.
• Engineering class infuses green ideas into local building projects April 21, 2008 Earth Day is celebrated once a year, but University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students are working to create plans that offer sustainable benefits for years to come.
• WAGE awards three research collaborative grants related to globalization April 10, 2008 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) announces the three winners of its research collaborative competition, each receiving $100,000 during a three-year period.
• Director cultivates a mile-high appreciation of Wisconsin April 10, 2008 From his 12th-floor office, Sam Batzli has a view of nearby Lake Mendota and Madison's downtown punctuated by the state Capitol. But instead of looking out the window, Batzli looks at Madison and the rest of Wisconsin from much higher altitudes.
• Money doesn’t grow on trees, but gasoline might April 7, 2008 In 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student George Huber and colleagues made hydrogen from plant sugars using nickel-tin alloy catalysts in the lab of Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor James Dumesic.
• New nanoparticle catalyst brings fuel-cell cars closer to showroom March 19, 2008 A University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Maryland (UM) team has developed a new nanotechnology-driven chemical catalyst that paves the way for more efficient hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
• Fund for late professor lifts Engineers Without Borders into the black March 10, 2008 Katie Simon had a lot to be nervous about in March 2007 when she became the president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), an organization that applies the knowledge of engineers to improving the quality of life for developing communities.
• UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system Feb. 27, 2008 New Year's Eve in Nejapa, El Salvador, looks a lot like the Fourth of July. At Griselda Guzman's house, homemade fireworks lighted the front yard, where the guests dancing outside her pale yellow home included 11 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students and three advisers.
• Can RFID technology promote a safer blood supply? Feb. 26, 2008 Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, has inspired many novel applications of late, including efforts to study magazine reader patterns, access restricted areas, locate stolen vehicles and track luggage at major airports.
• Hot subjects—Civil and Environmental Engineering 679: Travel Behavior Analysis Feb. 18, 2008
• Catheterized system wins annual student creativity prize Feb. 12, 2008 A catheterized system to sense bladder pressure and control urine flow to prevent incontinence won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition.
• Undergrad team debuts in genetic engineering competition Dec. 21, 2007 For the first time, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates participated in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM), held this fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Global engineering forum targets looming engineering shortage Nov. 13, 2007 The United States and the world face severe shortages of engineers by the year 2025, according to research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor data. The challenge of developing leaders in the changing engineering and technical workforce will be explored during the third annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Executives Forum.
• For students, electric ‘sled’ is good, clean fun in the snow Oct. 31, 2007 Thanks to donations from Madison-based foundations and industry, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineers will have the chance to develop an earth-friendly snowmobile that could facilitate scientific research in Antarctica and Greenland.
• New mechanical engineering building set for generations of innovation Oct. 19, 2007 When the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus opened its doors in 1930, sliding chalkboards and concrete floors were among its most innovative features.

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