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Students play an educational game that they created in the Engineering Sustainability: Linking Technology, Policy, Health and Economics course
June 5, 2025

In new engineering course, sustainability policy is debatable and alternative views are abundant

A new course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will enable engineers to make a greater real-world impact by equipping them to navigate complex problems that don’t have clear solutions…

PhD student Fernando Acosta-Pérez stands in front of the emergency entrance at UW Hospital
May 30, 2025

Mathematical modeling helps hospitals efficiently assign patients to the right space

A hospital’s emergency department swells with patients, a chunk of whom will need to be admitted to the facility’s inpatient unit. But decision-makers in emergency care face a dilemma: When…

Kate Hiller, Presley Hansen, Maddie Michels, Sadie Rowe and Lucy Hockerman
May 19, 2025

BME students step forward to help teen with muscular dystrophy

Maggie Eggleston enjoys horseback riding, watching movies and reading mysteries—a fairly typical set of interests for a 16-year-old girl. But Maggie’s lived experience is anything but typical. Three years ago,…

Photo of the newly developed thin film
May 16, 2025

Easy off: New technique levels up the industrial-scale production of electronic thin films

A team of researchers across several universities has developed a new, efficient technique for peeling ultra-thin crystalline electronic membranes away from their substrates—an advance that opens the door to wide-ranging…

May 15, 2025

In Wisconsin, Great Lakes partners are powering the next manufacturing revolution

An aggressive push to advance fusion from university experiments into energy for the real world. A new group aims to tap experts in the Midwest and beyond to capture the…

Professor Xiaoping Qian holds the 3D-printed optimized heat exchanger
May 6, 2025

Tapping a new toolbox, engineers buck tradition in new high-performing heat exchanger

By combining topology optimization and additive manufacturing, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers created a twisty high-temperature heat exchanger that outperformed a traditional straight channel design in heat transfer,…

May 6, 2025

In an increasingly energy-hungry world, nuclear power is enticing.

With new interest nationally and in our state, there’s a nuclear energy renaissance in the works. Fission reactors already generate reliable and robust energy, without producing greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear…

Spot, a dog-like robot created by Boston Dynamics
April 30, 2025

The race for animal-like endurance in mobile robots hinges on new energy storage technology

If we envision a future in which humanoid or animal-inspired robots work at construction sites or safeguard older adults, then we’ll need to develop energy storage systems that will allow…

Xiao Kuang
April 24, 2025

Charting a bright path for volumetric 3D printing

Over the past 40 years, additive manufacturing techniques have opened up new possibilities in manufacturing by enabling the fabrication of highly complex parts. An emerging technology called volumetric 3D printing…

Professor Jim Luedtke works with students in Advanced Optimization Modeling
April 24, 2025

New advanced optimization course provides industry preparation

Industrial engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who are interested in learning the basics of optimization—mathematical techniques that can solve problems such as choosing the quickest route from point…