By Emily Morzewski For 120 years, the Wisconsin Engineer Magazine has been a magazine with a mission to document engineering topics that are relevant to the students and alumni of UW-Madison. The Magazine published its first issue in June 1896 with the purpose of establishing a journal to share the knowledge and experiences of the […]
By Ben Zastrow From ancient history to the distant future, from The Flintstones to Star Wars, we have always been a species fascinated with both how we got here and where we will be years from today. It is a topic with a constantly expanding base of knowledge, which covers a wide variety of disciplines […]
By Brandon Grill Music has changed drastically throughout the decades, perhaps more in the past century than in any other time in history. While genres and styles have been in constant development and evolution prior to the widespread use of electricity, the instruments being used by composers and performers were largely the same ones that had […]
By Chris Hanko Astronomy is a place where curious minds thrive, and are often rewarded with amazing, seemingly improbable discoveries. While we have come so far in terms of knowledge and technology, there is still so much for us to learn about our surroundings and even our very existence. In this article, I will guide […]
By Morgan Adkins When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all: Home of Titletown and Cheese Days, America’s Dairyland, Land of the Bratwurst, and leading exporter of cranberries, sweet corn and more. Wisconsin is known for a lot of things, but perhaps its greatest claim to fame is the Wisconsin Idea. Providing a vision for the […]
By Stephen Eick Computers drive the world, it seems, and with the rise of applications like self-driving vehicles, this is true more so than ever before. The intricacies involved in their development are vast and numerous. A modern computer processor can have more transistors (the basic building blocks of computer chips) than the number of blades […]
By Edwin Neumann Viruses have been around for eons — possibly close to 3.5 billion years, according to many scientists. Some viral proteins even predate the divergence of life into the three domains: bacteria, archaea (ancient bacteria), and eukarya (plant, animal, and fungus cells). These ubiquitous microbes, which are not classified under any of the domains, have […]
By Eric Fleming Today, most people expect to be able to do anything and everything on their smartphone. Apple’s famous 2009 refrain “There’s an app for that” has quickly transformed from a selling point into an expectation. Almost every conceivable task has been moved to the internet, and subsequently to the mobile phone. People use […]
By Anastasia Montgomery Walking into an engineering class on the first day of a semester, I find it amusing to do a quick survey of my class, and without fail I find that only about 1 in 5 people are female. Depending on the class, that proportion can be much worse, as is the case […]
By Mark Bodnar During childhood, just about everyone received an unfortunate nickname or two that they are quite glad to have left firmly in the past; and fortunately, time does have a certain knack for erasing things from memory. Today most people know Illinois as the Prairie State and Wisconsin as the Badger State. But […]