Tag: College of Engineering

The one-cylinder test engine in a UW-Madison research lab is connected to a life-support system of pipes, tubes, ducts, and cables. You might think the engine resembles a patient in intensive care, but in this case, the patient is not sick. Instead, the elaborate monitoring system shows the engine can convert 59.5 percent of the… Read more »

A team of UW-Madison engineers is creating new, more robust decision-support software that could help prevent a frequent, potentially fatal blood-clotting condition in hospitalized patients. The work is to help prevent and manage venous thromboembolism (VTE). VTE occurs when a blood clot in a vein breaks free and travels in the blood, sometimes making its… Read more »

Researchers at UW-Madison are changing the way we look at bioproducts. “We’re trying to make very high-value commodity chemicals from biomass that can be used to make different kinds of plastics and plasticizers,” says George W. Huber, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor in chemical and biological engineering. “So many people have been focusing on fuels,… Read more »

Today’s smartphones and tablets provide consumers unparalleled mobile computing capability. Yet, these and many other technologies are critically dependent on sophisticated new materials that can solve challenges in areas ranging from clean energy and national security to human health and well-being. And currently, a new material’s journey from discovery to commercial product typically takes as… Read more »

With support from the New Frontier Science (NFS) group of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., UW-Madison engineers are conducting innovative research that could open new avenues for treating such diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and others. NFS collaborates with external researchers in an effort to advance innovative technologies and integrate them into future medicines. “There are… Read more »

Developing invisible implantable medical sensor arrays, a team of UW-Madison engineers has overcome a major technological hurdle in researchers’ efforts to understand the brain. The team described its technology, which has applications in fields ranging from neuro-science to cardiac care and even contact lenses, in the journal Nature Communications. Neural researchers study, monitor, or stimulate… Read more »

In a highly successful, first-of-its-kind endeavor, a multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have created a “tumor in a dish” that can accurately anticipate a multiple myeloma patient’s response to a drug. The advance could mean a giant step forward in efforts to tailor medical treatment plans to individual patients. Led by Shigeki Miyamoto,… Read more »

Getting Us from Here to There The College of Engineering drives improvements in many areas of transportation, including safety, automobile performance, and environmental impact, among many others. Here are a few recent developments. Mapping Wisconsin traffic deaths A new interactive map developed in partnership with the Madison news website Channel3000.com gives Wisconsinites a view of… Read more »

In the field of manufacturing, very often the brains behind creative new concepts find themselves at odds with the operators of the machines that must produce the finished object. In the 1980s, “design for manufacturability” emerged, a new paradigm in which engineers sought to educate designers about manufacturing processes. However, this new approach had the… Read more »

A team of researchers from the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW–Madison School of Nursing, School of Human Ecology, College of Engineering, and School of Medicine and Public Health are developing a new approach that can turn homes into healthcare environments.