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Becoming an Engineer Across the Pond

Choosing to study abroad, especially for UW-Madison engineering students who are already pursuing challenging degrees, can be a difficult choice to make. Now that I’ve taken the leap, here’s why I think that you should, too. Studying abroad had been an idea floating in the back of my mind for much of my career as […]

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ESW: The Art of Designing Sustainable Solutions as a Team

ESW is an entirely student run organization devoted to environmentally relevant projects, hands-on experience, and teamwork.  What do aquaponics, saving the bees, and solar powered charging stations have in common? If you guessed that they are all pillars of the Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), then you are right! ESW is an industrious and […]

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Drive to Survive: Fact or Fiction?

The newest season of Netflix’s acclaimed docuseries Drive to Survive tells a story of drama and rivalries between the twenty drivers and ten teams in Formula One, but does it accurately portray the hidden world of this competitive sport? The first season of Drive to Survive debuted on Netflix in 2019, and now that the […]

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Design for Rehabilitation: From Clinic to Classroom 

Dr. Christopher Luzzio, neurologist and associate professor of mechanical engineering, brings challenges from the clinic into the classroom in BME 601: Design for Rehabilitation. Many engineering courses teach students how to design, but few classes show students how to put their designs into practice and improve the lives of others. Taught by Dr. Christopher Luzzio, […]

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What’s in a Name?

UW-Madison holds a rich history and has been home to many influential figures since its founding. Many of these figures have been memorialized on campus, allowing their legacies to still be appreciated today.  In the May 1974 issue of Wisconsin Engineer, then student Judy Endejan writes of an important new fixture soon to be built […]

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Potatoes and Insects and Telescopes – Oh My! Applying Engineering to UW-Madison’s Research

From building telescopes to constructing models to predict the phenotypes of potatoes, science research at UW-Madison relies on a diverse range of engineering expertise. With a yearly budget of $1.4 billion, UW-Madison, one of the world’s foremost research universities, ranked 8th in the nation when it comes to yearly spending on research, according to a […]

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The Road to Unraveling the Secrets of the Universe starts with … -1/12

One of the most important values in all of physics is -1/12, and the number comes about only by staring infinity in the face and accepting it as nothing more than a convenient mathematical idea. If you were to add all the natural numbers – every positive integer from one to infinity – what would […]