UW-Madison College of Engineering

06/03/2026

More than 700 people attended the Wisconsin Drives Manufacturing Summit held in the atrium at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, coming together with the goal of propelling Wisconsin to lead the nation in manufacturing.

Spearheaded by the UW-Madison College of Engineering and co-created with more than 100 partners, the summit was about bringing the state’s strengths, resources and people into alignment so that all partners can work together to tackle today’s challenges and respond nimbly to future opportunities.

Throughout the summit on June 1 and 2, 2026, speakers and attendees—among them, manufacturing leaders, educators, researchers, policymakers, government officials, advocates and innovators—underscored the importance of a strong ecosystem in Wisconsin’s overall success in manufacturing.

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DDevesh RanjanUUW-Madison Grainger Institute for Engineering

Filling a space shaped by history and shared pride, more than 700 people gathered in the soaring, light-drenched atrium at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. With banners of legendary Green Bay Packers as the backdrop,...

06/02/2026

📸 Scenes from Day 1 of the inaugural Wisconsin Drives Manufacturing Summit, which brings together industry leaders, elected officials, researchers, educators and more! The action continues today at Lambeau Field.

UW-Madison Grainger Institute for Engineering Devesh Ranjan

06/01/2026

A quest to understand 3D photonic nanocrystals, tiny structures that manipulate visible light, has guided Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison Assistant Professor Rose Cersonsky's career. It remains a beacon for her future.

Advances in designing various types of 3D nanocrystals on demand could improve quantum computing and sensing, heat management and solar power and enable new types of energy harvesting and non-degrading color, among many other applications.

When Rose Cersonsky, the Conway Assistant Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a graduate student at the University of Michigan, she had a “Eureka!” moment that would define the...

05/29/2026

Congratulations to Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison Assistant Professor Styliana Avraamidou on earning a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award!

She will apply her expertise in process systems engineering to develop tools that allow farmers, food processors and distributors to work around unexpected disruptions in the perishable supply chain.

Avraamidou will use the Wisconsin dairy industry as her primary case study and plans to collaborate with the UW-Madison Division of Extension Dairy Program to help ground the framework in real-world scenarios.

"We hope to capture what’s currently happening in Wisconsin and then see if we can redesign the supply chains of perishable products to make them more resilient to different types of disruptions," she says.

The modern food distribution system is a wonder of logistics and engineering, with ingredients moving seamlessly from farms and fields to processors, manufacturers, distribution hubs, and, eventually, grocery store shelves. That system is even more...

05/28/2026

UW-Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Assistant Professor Yonatan Mintz, researcher Katherine Adams (PhDISyE ’24), and their collaborators have developed a novel framework for generating deployment plans for community health workers treating diabetes in under-resourced areas.

Not only do the majority of people with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries, per the World Health Organization, but treatment also lags in those under-resourced locales, more often leading to death or disability....

05/27/2026

Congratulations to the University of Wisconsin-Madison WiscWind team on winning second place in the 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition and taking first place in the project development contest!

Students on the team presented development plans to panels of industry judges and tested their turbine in a wind tunnel last week during a three-day regional competition at Cal Poly Maritime Academy in Vallejo, California.

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A team of students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison won second place in the 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition and took first in the project development contest. Students on the WiscWind...

05/27/2026

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison welcomes a familiar and accomplished leader to serve as interim department chair. Effective May 25, 2026, Vilas Distinguished...

05/19/2026

UW-Madison Department of Mechanical Engineering researchers have discovered why defects form in 3D-printed metal parts created with electron beam melting.

Their findings could enable defect-free, high-end parts for aerospace or future fusion energy power plants.

The team, led by Associate Professor Lianyi Chen, used a bespoke synchrotron X-ray imaging system to make the discovery. The advance was recently published in Nature Communications.

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered why defects form in 3D-printed high-end metal parts like titanium aluminide jet engine turbine blades. They used a bespoke synchrotron X-ray imaging system to identify the phenomenon, which occurs...

05/18/2026

A team of optimization researchers from the UW-Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering Department and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, led by PhD student Monica Rico, examined ways to more strategically locate prescription drug collection boxes and improve access.

A plastic bottle of prescribed painkillers—extras from a surgical recuperation—lurks in the back of your medicine cabinet. If you’re like most Americans, you’ll either let the pills linger, flush them down the toilet or toss...

05/15/2026

We recognized 25 faculty, postdocs and graduate student mentors in the College of Engineering at the second annual Graduate Student Mentoring Awards reception on May 14, 2026.

Congratulations to these exceptional faculty, postdocs and graduate students who make outstanding contributions to mentoring students or peers and cultivate a sense of belonging in and outside of the lab!

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The College of Engineering recognized 25 faculty, postdocs and graduate student mentors at the second annual Graduate Student Mentoring Awards reception on May 14, 2026. The awards recognize faculty, postdocs...