Stories indexed under: Engineering

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• Stretching silicon: A new method to measure how strain affects semiconductors Nov. 3, 2008 UW-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.
• Steven Clark, engineering diversity leader, dies Oct. 15, 2008 Steven N. Clark, assistant dean for diversity affairs and student leadership programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, died unexpectedly Monday. He was 44.
• Tunable microlenses shine light on medical imaging Oct. 13, 2008 UW-Madison engineers have developed tunable liquid microlenses that can quickly scan images and record video.
• Courses help growing railroad industry stay on track Oct. 9, 2008 there are few undergraduate or graduate programs in the United States that teach engineers to design, build and maintain railroads that are safe, efficient and consumer-oriented. However, UW-Madison offers a comprehensive continuing education program.
• SEMATECH donates cutting-edge lab equipment to UW-Madison Aug. 18, 2008 Students in Mechanical Engineering Professor Roxann Engelstad's lab, sought after in industry for their problem-solving experience, now can graduate even more well-versed in cutting-edge technology.
• Engineering students partner with Red Cliff Indian Reservation to improve community infrastructure Aug. 15, 2008 "Hello, or as they say around here, 'boozhoo!'" called out Tim Funk, tribal planner for the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, to four engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
• Program bolsters number of minority engineering graduate degree recipients Aug. 12, 2008 Elizabeth Felton never thought about pursuing a Ph.D. when, in 2000, she began her master's degree program in biomedical engineering. That changed during a gathering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Engineering Research Scholars program (GERS).
• Curiosities: Which saves more gas: driving with windows closed, and the AC on, or AC off, and windows open? July 30, 2008
• Engineers Without Borders July 17, 2008 Watch a WISC-TV For the Record episode that features UW-Madison’s Engineers Without Borders program.
• Zero-gravity team finds spray cooling works in space July 8, 2008 For the 10th consecutive year, University of Wisconsin-Madison students have found themselves floating upside down over the Gulf of Mexico.
• Green snowmobile logs first month at Arctic research station July 3, 2008 An electric snowmobile built by student members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Clean Snowmobile Team is now in Greenland, on loan to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the summer to support climate research projects at the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEO Summit Camp).
• UW-Madison students design ‘disaster’ for Wisconsin rescue training facility May 30, 2008 When University of Wisconsin-Madison civil and environmental engineering students Dan Zignego, Jake Varnes, Bill Schmitz and Nick Bobinski began a design project meant to be the crowning glory of their educational careers, they never thought it would turn into such a disaster.
• Green highways: Research targets environmentally friendly asphalts May 27, 2008 For those hoping to create a greener world, our country's millions of miles of asphalt roads may seem like an odd place to seek solutions. Yet, it's precisely because asphalt is so common that we have much to gain from making it more eco-friendly, says University of Wisconsin-Madison civil engineering professor Hussain Bahia.
• Notable graduates: David Blodgett — Concrete accomplishments on the water May 13, 2008 When competitors from other schools hear about David Blodgett of UW-Madison's Concrete Canoe team, they generally have the response: "That's not fair."
• 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.