Wisconsin Engineer Magazine
The rapid rise of women’s soccer coincides with an increase in ACL injuries, prompting a closer look at factors affecting player safety. A successful event, the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup broke records with unprecedented crowds and culminated in a historic victory for Spain. The popularity of women’s football continues to rise, reaching mainstream media […]
Madison’s unique introductory course: How it came to be, how it will change In a world of evolving technology and shifting priorities, engineers must be adaptable. However, the same should also apply to engineering education. While UW-Madison teaches its students to adjust and overcome the challenges they face, the curriculum itself is similarly changing. The […]
Over 80 years after Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor, international nuclear engineering students face significant limitations with job options in the United States. Hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, sophomore Gerson Esquivel is an undergraduate international student in UW-Madison’s nuclear engineering program. Like many international students, he overcame the challenge of living in […]
Apple’s bid to bring spatial computing into everyone’s daily life may be out of step with today’s technology. February 2024 marked the release of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s push for virtual reality to be a part of everyone’s daily life. However, professionals remain skeptical that this will be the product to crack the mainstream. […]
To the readers of the Wisconsin Engineer Magazine – This is my seventh and final issue working with the amazing staff of the Wisconsin Engineer Magazine. I find myself in awe of how far this magazine has come in the seven semesters I spent as a member of this group of hard-working and brilliant people. […]
Was the George L. Mosse Humanities Building built to serve as an impenetrable bunker amid wartime, or is there more to the story? Anyone walking past the corner of State and N. Park St. is sure to notice the George L. Mosse and wonder what inspired the design of this striking, concrete-block fortress. The Humanities […]
Experiencing real-world engineering in my first semester at UW-Madison. The first semester at UW-Madison as a freshman engineer is challenging, not just because of the classes. No matter how comfortable you are in CHEM 103, MATH 222, or any other of the freshman-heavy “weed-out” classes, college is a major change. Adjusting to an independent life […]
For over a century, the Wisconsin Engineer Magazine has told the stories of the College of Engineering and its students. Today, we’re telling the stories of the people who make it all possible. With winter break reaching its end and spring semester looming, the members of Wisconsin Engineer are preparing for their return to college […]
Written by Mike A. Shapiro Our magazine’s first woman editor was also one of the first women to graduate UW–Madison with an engineering degree. When June Hartnell began editing Wisconsin Engineer in August 1944, she had a co-editor, a boyfriend with a red and white single-seat airplane, and the top GPA in the electrical engineering […]
Niche and confined to technical discourse, Linux and open-source technologies shoulder the responsibility of maintaining life in the modern digital age. On a global scale, from governments to multinational corporations, world leaders invest in the immense power of one technology. This exceedingly powerful tool is known as open-source. Open-source computing makes Linux, an operating system […]