Stories indexed under: Engineering

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• 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.
• Curiosities: Does a dark-colored car heat up more in the sun than a light-colored car? July 27, 2009
• Software tool helps Web developers identify seizure-causing content July 22, 2009 In 1997, an episode of the popular Pok�mon cartoon gained worldwide attention when more than 800 Japanese children with photosensitive seizure conditions were admitted to the hospital after viewing the cartoon or the subsequent news coverage of it.
• UW-Madison to play key role in nuclear energy's comeback June 11, 2009 As the climate warms, energy supplies shrink and oil imports continue to rise, nuclear energy is suddenly set for a resurgence: Splitting atoms, which now provide 20 percent of American electricity, are being asked to play a bigger role in solving our never-ending energy woes.
• Recent sightings: Steel Bridge Team May 21, 2009 The UW-Madison Steel Bridge Team assembles its bridge entry during a timed practice in the foyer of the Engineering Centers Building on May 13, 2009.
• Clean sweep for UW-Madison snowmobile team March 24, 2009 Two University of Wisconsin-Madison student-built snowmobiles swept the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge, winning both competition divisions: the National Science Foundation Award for the best sled in the zero-emissions division and the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association Award for first place in the internal-combustion division.
• Top regional high school students to participate in international science fair March 2, 2009 Two Madison high school students earned top honors in the third annual Capital Science and Engineering Fair, held Feb. 28 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus.
• Going green, one moped at a time Feb. 26, 2009 Sixteen UW-Madison engineering students spent last fall figuring out how to make the Vespa scooter more green.
• iPhone sleep improvement application wins at innovation competition Feb. 12, 2009 A software application for the iPhone and the iPod touch that will help people sleep and wake up more effectively won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition that rewards innovative and marketable ideas.
• Encouraging entrepreneurs: Undergraduate invention competition turns 15 Feb. 2, 2009 In 1995, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering debuted the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, a competition that provides university undergraduates the tools and resources to develop an original, patentable invention or process.
• Experts available to discuss the federal economic stimulus package Jan. 29, 2009 As federal lawmakers continue to debate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA 2009), professional development experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are available to discuss the impact of the legislation on the nation's infrastructure.
• Large-scale nuclear materials study shapes national collaborations Jan. 15, 2009 In Kumar Sridharan's laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus, just one ill-timed sneeze might have catapulted his next three years' worth of nuclear reactor materials research into oblivion.
• Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos Jan. 13, 2009 Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past.