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H3X co-founders and UW Madison College of Engineering Alumni, are moving the world one step closer to electrifying the skies with new lightweight, power-dense electric motors.

Prof. Lei Zhou and her PhD students Laura Homiller and Jinjie Wu were honored with an Early Career Award and Student Scholarship awards ant the 38th American Society for Precision Engineering annual meeting in November. Read more about these recognitions and the awardees here.

Read the interview with the 2023 Early Career Award recipient, WEMPEC Ph.D. alumnus, Justin Reed, President and CTO, C-Motive Technologies Inc. Each year, the College of Engineering honors outstanding members of our alumni community who have made remarkable contributions to their fields.

WEMPEC student Maitreyee Marathe was recognized for excellence in research communication at the intersection of data science and energy applications at the 2023 Energy Data Analytics Symposium at Duke University.

Congratulations to Professor Lei Zhou on her two new grants from NSF!
– Next-Generation Safe and Dexterous Robot Hands using High-Torque Direct-Drive Actuation
– Wafer-Scale Ultrathin Layered Device Array Assembly through a Precision Soft-Robotic Stamp Transfer Process

Professors Chirag Gupta and Shubhra Pasayat, together with Professor Daniel Ludois, have received a $1.5 Million NSF ASCENT grant to utilize wide bandgap semiconductor materials to develop an ultra-efficient, high-voltage transistor.

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, backed by impeccable data. In this talk, Prof. Giri will review Jevons’ observations and link it to present observations.

WEMPEC is one of the co-sponsors of this year’s Makeathon at the UW Makerspace. Join in and develop a product or system that will mitigate the impact of escalating high temperatures on marginalized populations (those experiencing housing insecurity, individuals with disabilities, stray animals, etc.)!

Lei Zhou uses her interdisciplinary precision mechatronics research as a powerful tool for solving problems in various application areas, including semiconductor manufacturing equipment and robotics. With a systems focus, she develops novel and high-performance mechatronic solutions by exploiting the synergy between precision machine design, electric machines, and control algorithms.