The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has included Prof. Daniel Ludois in its 2025 class of fellows—the highest distinction designed to recognize academic inventors’ accomplishments in patents, licensing and commercialization.
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Electric aircraft are on the horizon, and UW-Madison engineers are helping this emerging tech to take off
As aviation begins to transition from combustion-powered jet engines to cleaner electric motors, designers need to make sure that electrically propelled aircraft can achieve the same level of reliability via redundancy. That’s why Professors Bulent Sarlioglu and Thomas Jahns along with a group of students are working on a NASA-funded project to develop ultra-reliable fault-tolerant electric motor drives for future aircraft propulsion systems.
Badger Tech Foundry, first “spoke” in the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, focused on helping early-career researchers become serial entrepreneurs
The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, a chancellor’s initiative started earlier in 2025, is working to help translate ideas into opportunities for entrepreneurial students, staff and faculty by creating a founder-first ecosystem at UW-Madison that develops talent and helps launch entrepreneurial careers.
With NSF CAREER Award, Zhou aims to develop mechatronic systems that increase productivity in computer chip manufacturing
There’s a booming industry demand for microchips. But meeting that demand is challenging for chipmakers, because current mechatronic systems have reached the limit for how fast they can produce them. With a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Prof. Lei Zhou aims to push mechatronic systems past that limit.
With NSF CAREER Award, Chirag Gupta is using next-gen materials to engineer high performance power semiconductor transistors
Prof. Chirag Gupta is using a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER award to study transistors made from ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors.
Trystar – Principal Engineer – Power Electronics Control
Job Description: Trystar is at the forefront of advancing power solutions, charged and driven by a committed, dynamic team, tackling complex challenges, and creating innovative solutions. Safety and integrity aren’t just buzzwords. They are the …
Trystar – Principal Engineer – Power Electronics Design
Job Description: Trystar is at the forefront of advancing power solutions, charged and driven by a committed, dynamic team, tackling complex challenges, and creating innovative solutions. Safety and integrity aren’t just buzzwords. They are the …
ECE Focus on Faculty: Daniel Ludois
Prof. Daniel Ludois is the first WEMPEC Faculty member to be featured in ECE’s evolving “Focus on Faculty” video profile series. Follow the link to learn more about what drives him and his research group!
Video available: Watch Prof. Giri’s Talk on Jevons’ Paradox and Decarbonization online
Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around. In this talk, Prof. Giri reviews Jevons’ observations and links it to present ones. The talk was given in September 2023 as part of the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s Sustainable Energy series.
Wave energy harvesting project among first round winners of DOE InDEEP prize
WEMPEC PhD student David Skrovanek, Professor Dan Ludois, and Professor Ted Brekken of Oregon State University are among the first stage winners on the DOE’s InDEEP prize supporting research in the area of ocean wave energy technology.