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The National Academy of Inventors has selected Bulent Sarlioglu, the Jean van Bladel associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as part of its 2021 class of fellows. Bulent Sarlioglu The Academy also …

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Giri Venkataramanan decided to have his students shadow teams participating in the Solympics hackathon, an event held July 22-24, 2021, at the college’s makerspace. The event focused on simple solar-powered solutions for charging devices such as phones or tablets.

Prof. Tom Jahns has announced that he will retire from his active faculty position at UW-Madison on June 30, 2021. Prof. Jahns joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1998 as the Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines.

Bulent Sarlioglu, the Jean van Bladel Associate Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2021 Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society.

In 2020, the country’s biggest tech migration increase took place in Madison, according to LinkedIn data published by Big Technology on December 17, 2020. The boom is fueled in part by UW–Madison, which provides cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial graduates and researchers, and a well-educated local workforce that motivates some employers to open offices in Madison.

Former students create a fund to carry on the work of electrical engineering professor Thomas Lipo PhD’68.