UniverCity Alliance, a program that allows communities across Wisconsin to connect with faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines at UW-Madison, exemplifies the increasing importance of bridging the gap between social issues and engineering. When people think about engineering, often the first things that come to mind are exceedingly technical: building things made […]
Category: Spring 2022
Find out how the TEAM Lab went from a massive flood to fully functional in the past two years. On February 4th, 2020, a water main break occurred on Henry Mall. This water flowed into the underground steam tunnels that emptied to the lowest point on the Engineering Campus. That lowest point was the location […]
“Sparking ideas. Igniting potential.” This year’s EXPO team is excited to be back on campus and host more than 2,500 middle school students from all over the state on April 22. Lilly Dye, a third-year student at UW-Madison studying neurobiology and psychology, loved visiting UW-Madison’s Engineering EXPO as a child. She vividly recalls her fascination […]
The Engineering Summer Program invites high school students to spend their summers in the UW-Madison College of Engineering with the focus of building a community of students with common goals and interests. It is 5:30 a.m. on July 28, 2018, as 28 bleary-eyed teenagers huddle on the cold stone benches at the very tip of […]
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Written Across the Stars
Explore Christopher Nolan’s reimagined galaxy through the lens of time Released in 2014, Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar was nominated for various Academy and BAFTA awards for the categories of Best Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects. Though falling short of achieving the esteemed Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, this film portrays a thrilling […]
A UW-Madison professor developed a way to more easily distinguish between different substances. Now, she’s been given a $480,135 grant by the National Eye Institute to study how her technique can be used in the detection of eye diseases. Have you ever started with an idea that at first seemed inconsequential, but over time it […]
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People of College of Engineering
A look into the everyday lives of engineering students at UW-Madison. Engineering Hall is a bustling environment filled with all kinds of students—some studying with friends, some killing time before their next class, others stressfully cramming for exams. Overall, these students have one thing in common: striving for academic success. Students from all over the […]
Emily Hahn recalls in her memoir No Hurry to Get Home the act of rebellion that made a place for all women in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Though nearly fifty years had passed since women received full coeducational status at UW-Madison in 1875, an unspoken ceiling remained over the College of Engineering until […]