UW-Madison College of Engineering

10/16/2026

We're excited to welcome Chloe Dedic as a new associate professor in the UW-Madison Department of Mechanical Engineering!

Her research is focused on the development and application of advanced, laser-based measurements and optical sensors to study reacting gas-phase flows, such as combustion systems or the flow around high-speed aerospace vehicles.

Chloe Dedic joined the UW-Madison Department of Mechanical Engineering as an associate professor in August 2026. With her research, she aims to improve understanding of combustion and nonequilibrium systems to further develop technologies related to...

10/15/2026

Congratulations to Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison Assistant Professor Rose Cersonsky on receiving a 2026 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program award!

Cersonsky will investigate how to use electric fields to control crystal formation. This could help improve the speed, quality and efficiency of developing important materials like advanced semiconductors and sensors.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Rose Cersonsky, the Conway Assistant Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to receive a 2026 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program...

10/14/2026

In a new blog post, Grainger Dean of the College of Engineering Devesh Ranjan and UW-Madison Civil & Environmental Engineering's John Nelson share how engineers can play an important role in helping to ensure the resilience of systems that people depend on long before a crisis occurs.

"One insight from engineering practice is that resilience is often less about building the next biggest and best thing and more about preserving what’s important: mobility, clean water, reliable energy, economic opportunity and public safety. In other words, preserving the continuity of daily life and the conditions that allow communities to thrive," they write.

Several weeks ago, devastating flooding struck Nepal adjacent to Bihar, in India. We asked ourselves how engineering should respond.

10/14/2026

UW–Madison generates more than $38 billion for the state of Wisconsin.

10/12/2026

We're excited to welcome Hezi Zhang as a new UW-Madison ECE assistant professor!

She is working to develop new computer architecture paradigms to harness qubit capabilities and lower demands on hardware to accelerate the pathway to practical quantum computing.

Researchers have made huge strides in developing qubits, the “quantum bits” that process data at the heart of quantum computers. But computers are much more than their processors: It takes an entire “computing stack,” or...

10/12/2026

10/09/2026

To help undergrads get a better sense of whether graduate school is the right path for them, UW-Madison ECE launched the Summer Program for Advanced Research and Knowledge, otherwise known as SPARK.

The pilot program supported motivated undergraduates who worked full time in a research lab for 10 weeks during summer 2026. The idea was to give students a feel for what it’s like to work in a lab setting on real research projects and offer them a chance to interact with current graduate students and faculty.

Many undergraduates attending large research institutions like the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a moment when they look at all of the busy graduate students and world-class laboratories surrounding them and wonder if graduate school is...

10/09/2026

One of the best parts of my job as a faculty member within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UW–Madison is working with a research team of...

10/08/2026

Congratulations to UW-Madison Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Associate Professor Hantang Qin on earning a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award!

He is building a new type of laser-assisted hybrid nanomanufacturing system that will feature a laser-diffraction-enabled quality monitoring system. Qin’s aim is to create a system that, once scaled up, could reliably produce qubit arrays needed for quantum computing—all while operating in space, away from the influence of gravity.

In addition to working on NASA-funded research, Hantang Qin is raising a space-exploration enthusiast. His 8-year-old son, George, eagerly watched the launch of the Artemis II mission in April 2026, fresh on the heels of...

10/07/2026

Meet Professor Kathryn Huff, the new chair of the UW-Madison Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics.

Her research is advancing modeling and simulation capabilities for next-generation nuclear reactors and fuel cycles.

Huff earned her PhD in nuclear engineering from UW-Madison. "The chance to come back to Madison and to the department that shaped me as a nuclear engineer is just an incredible opportunity that I couldn’t pass up," she says. "It’s also a great moment for Wisconsin with the incredible enthusiasm for fusion right now. With the department’s exceptional faculty and longstanding excellence in fusion research, we’re poised to lead the way in realizing fusion-driven limitless distributed power, which is one of the College of Engineering’s six Engineering Moonshots."

Kathryn (Katy) Huff began her new role as Spangler Faculty Professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics in July 2026. Her research interests focus on advanced nuclear...