College of Engineering
Projects
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Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)
Founded in 1993, the QRM Center is a partnership between companies, faculty and students at UW-Madison, dedicated to the research and implementation o...
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Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS)
The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) is development of software to provide support to breast cancer patients, in both English a...
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Decarbonized-Engine Research Consortium (DERC)
The Engine Research Center (ERC) at UW-Madison launched an international Diesel Emissions Reduction Consortium (DERC) in 2004 (later renamed the Decar...
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Capital Science & Engineering Fair
The Capital Science & Engineering Fair is a science fair hosted by UW-Madison and intended for high school students around Wisconsin. With its first...
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Public Works Supervisory Academy
The Public Works Supervisory Academy is a 9-course series tailored for those who oversee the engineering, water, sewerage, parks, and street divisions...
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Wisconsin 511 Traveler Information System
The nationwide 511 Traveler Information Program began in July 2000 when the FCC designated the three-digit telephone dialing code 5-1-1 for traveler i...
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Industrial Refrigeration Consortium
The Industrial Refrigeration Consortium (IRC) is a collaborative effort between UW-Madison and industry. The goal is to improve the safety, efficiency...
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Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium
The Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium gives commercial partners the opportunity to collaborate with students and faculty in advanced materials...
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Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
The cities of Kenosha and Madison are sponsors of the UW-Madison College of Engineering's Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research. The...
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UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC)
The UW E-Business Consortium (UWEBC) is a collaborative learning community comprising Wisconsin's leading companies and flagship university. The UWEBC...
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Transportation Information Center (TIC)
The Wisconsin Transportation Information Center (TIC) was created in 1983 to help local highway officials manage their road systems. There are more t...
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Master of Engineering Management (MEM)
This program enables engineers living anywhere in Wisconsin - or beyond - to earn a highly prestigious engineering master's degree from UW-Madison. Th...
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Engineering Cooperative Education & Summer Internship Program
The Engineering Cooperative Education & Summer Internship Program supplements the Wisconsin engineering workforce by providing students 3-12 months of...
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Civil Engineering 649: Sustainable Building
In Civil Engineering 649: Sustainable Building, student teams develop construction aids and proposals for sustainable building construction methods fo...
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Accelerated Durable Highway Bridge Design and Construction
UW-Madison Professors Lawrence Bank, Jeff Russell and Mike Oliva from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working with the Wisco...
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Continuing Education Courses for Engineers and Technical Professionals
Continuing Education courses have helped engineers and other technical professionals in nearly every Wisconsin county keep up-to-date on the latest te...
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Exploring Materials Science: Research Experiences for Teachers Program
The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is funded by the National Science Foundation and is hosted by the UW-Madison Materials Research Sc...
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NIATx
NIATx (pronounced NIGH-a-tex) is a learning collaborative within UW-Madison's Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies. NIATx promotes use of a s...
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Leaders in Engineering Excellence and Diversity Program (LEED)
The Leaders in Engineering Excellence and Diversity Program (LEED) is a scholarship program for academically talented women and students from groups h...
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Revision of uCount software documentation for non-profits (DaneNet; UW Madison course: EPD265)
UW-Madison course EPD265:Teams and the Engineering Profession (with an affiliation to national EPICS) involved having the class update the user docume...
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CEE 649, Spring 2010: Sustainability of Two City of Madison Fire Stations
Two teams of students from this civil engineering class at UW-Madison are currently inspecting two fire stations in the City of Madison. They are work...
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Rapid and Efficient Construction of Highway Bridges
The U.W. is working with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (Madison and EauClaire offices) to pilot a new type of construction system for use...
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Wisconsin Public Utility Institute
Founded in 1982, the Wisconsin Public Utility Institute’s mission is to advance understanding of public policy issues in the electricity, gas, and tel...
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ReaLens, LLC Collaboration with Design of Articial Eye Lenses
Current artificial eye lenses aren’t designed to mimic natural lens function. Consequently, patients gain unobstructed vision, but require glasses to...
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UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP)
The UW E-Business Institute (UWEBI) and the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) have an established partnership to enable Wisconsin m...
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Mobile CHESS (MCHESS) Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children
Four hundred Milwaukee Medicaid recipients (ages 12-18), with an asthma-related emergency care visit or hospitalization in the last twelve months, wil...
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Interactive Cancer Communication Systems' (ICCS) Directed Physical Activity Enhancement for Colon Cancer Survivors
A new interactive cancer communication system (ICCS) called Survivorship Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) will be developed and...
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Exploration by Design
Exploration by Design is a series of summer camps held at UW-Madison through the School of Engineering and the Midwest Alliance group. The camps are...
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UW-CREATe
UW-CREATe is an Engineering Research and Design Center located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that works to engage in engineering research, en...
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The Midwest Alliance
The Midwest Alliance offers high quality, supportive programs designed to guide students with disabilities in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin more effici...
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ARTe Design
The ARTe Design Program is a special section within the mechanical engineering course sequence of the capstone design program at UW-Madison. The secti...
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Fusion Technology Institute (FTI)
Founded in 1971, the Fusion Technology Institute (FTI) at UW-Madison is home to the largest program in the United States for advanced degrees in fusio...
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Long collaboration with sewer district helps city, university
UW researchers and experts have assisted the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in improving and perfecting wastewater treatment. Researchers have...
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Drug courts test smart phone app to help addicted offenders
UW researchers have created a new use for the smart phone: fighting chronic illnesses such as addiction. With Addiction-CHESS, users can access online...
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Elder Tree
Under a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), David Gustafson and his team at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems St...
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Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP)
WiscAMP is funded by the National Science Foundation to increase the number of underrepresented minority students across the state of Wisconsin who gr...
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Construction Engineering Management Applied Research
John Nelson and other faculty and students from the Department of Civil Engineering help Wisconsin building designers and constructors to be more comp...
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Machine Shop Practice Training Videos
The College of Engineering TEAM Lab has created short instructional videos on proper machine shop practice for use by other schools and individuals. T...
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HVDC Power Transmission: Line Commutated Converter (LCC) and Voltage Source Converter (VSC) Technologies and Applications
Electric power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization in Wisconsin has utilized the traditional alternating current (AC) technology si...
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Wisconsin 511 Construction Projects Website
The 511 Projects Website came online in summer 2012 as a major extension of Wisconsin DOT’s 511 Traveler Information Program to provide expanded infor...
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Innovating through materials with the UW-MRSEC
The Interdisciplinary Education Group of the UW Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (UW-MRSEC) teaches the greater Wisconsin community a...
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Camp Badger for Teachers
Camp Badger for Teachers™ is a new professional development opportunity for Wisconsin middle school teachers, offered by the UW–Madison School of Educ...
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Bringing Clean Water to Tabuga: Engineers Without Borders‐UW, Ecuador Project
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) partners undergraduate engineers and professional mentors with communities throughout the world to develop sustainable...
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Solar Panel Test Facility
When it comes to producing electricity efficiently, hotter is better. Within the past 10 years, the operating temperature of coal-fired power plants h...
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Supercomputers Allow for Cheaper Vehicle Testing
Using the power of supercomputers, Dan Negrut, a UW-Madison associate professor of mechanical engineering, is setting up a simulation software infrast...
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Plastics Research Enhanced by University Resources
With the help of Tim Osswald, UW-Madison plastics engineering Professor, Teel Plastics has been able to have a competitive edge over other companies b...
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Microgrids Help Power Milwaukee Industry
UW-Madison researchers are developing a microgrid-based electric power and distribution system that has the potential to help bring economic stability...
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Reducing Commercial Energy Costs
By using models to predict the heating, ventilation and cooling needs of a building, Jim Rawlings, professor of chemical and biological engineering at...
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Geosynthetic Bridges
When the material used to make a bridge differs from that used to make the roadway, the road leading up to the bridge is compacted while the bridge te...
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UW Researchers Discover a Faster and More Efficient Way to Diagnose Asthma
Neutrophils, the most abundant kind of white blood cell in the body, can be used to quickly and accurately diagnose even the mildest cases of asthma....
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Where Is Care: Mobile application for low-socioeconomic position patients in Wisconsin
Where Is Care is an online community of free and subsidized health and social services. Our goal is to help low-income uninsured and underinsured pat...