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.
WEMPEC Newsletter – April 2025
April 2025 The Annual Review is less than a month away! The lab is buzzing, the faculty and students’ presentations and posters are taking shape. The excitement is rising and we look forward to …
WEMPEC Newsletter – March 2025
March 2025 Student Shoutout David Skrovanek received second place in UW-Madison’s Three Minute Thesis competition for his thesis titled, “There is no transition without transmission”. Read more about the competition here. Remember to register for …
Breaking ground on Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center, UW-Madison College of Engineering begins new era of growth and impact
On April 17, 2025, a crowd of several hundred students, staff, faculty, university leaders, alumni and dignitaries kicked off construction of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering’s new building at a ceremonial groundbreaking event.
Devesh Ranjan named dean of UW College of Engineering
Devesh Ranjan, a mechanical engineer and a leader at one of the country’s largest and highest-ranked engineering programs, will be the tenth dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
WEMPEC Newsletter – February 2025
February 2025 WEMPEC 2025 Annual Review – Registration is now Open! Please join us at Engineering Hall on the UW-Madison campus for WEMPEC’s 2025 Annual Review and be part of a highly interactive environment in …