Category: In the News

Riccardo Breda receives IEEE PELS Fellowships

Riccardo is a visiting student from the University of Udine in Italy, advised by Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu.

High expectations for single-wire power exchange

Professor Daniel Ludois and PhD student Shiying Wang received the award for Best Oral Presentation Paper in Emerging Technology for IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2023. The award was announced at the IEEE ECCE in Nashville, TN in November.

Three UW-Madison COE Alumni on Forbes 30 Under 30 List

H3X co-founders and UW Madison College of Engineering Alumni, are moving the world one step closer to electrifying the skies with new lightweight, power-dense electric motors.

ASPE awards for Prof. Lei Zhou and two of her PhD students

Prof. Lei Zhou and her PhD students Laura Homiller and Jingjie Wu were honored with an Early Career Award and Student Scholarship awards ant the 38th American Society for Precision Engineering annual meeting in November. Read more about these recognitions and the awardees here.

Justin Reed: 2023 Early Career Award Recipient

Read the interview with the 2023 Early Career Award recipient, WEMPEC Ph.D. alumnus, Justin Reed, President and CTO, C-Motive Technologies Inc. Each year, the College of Engineering honors outstanding members of our alumni community who have made remarkable contributions to their fields.

Maitreyee Marathe Receives Research Award at Energy Data Analytics Symposium

WEMPEC student Maitreyee Marathe was recognized for excellence in research communication at the intersection of data science and energy applications at the 2023 Energy Data Analytics Symposium at Duke University.

New NSF robotics and manufacturing awards for Lei Zhou

Congratulations to Professor Lei Zhou on her two new grants from NSF! - Next-Generation Safe and Dexterous Robot Hands using High-Torque Direct-Drive Actuation - Wafer-Scale Ultrathin Layered Device Array Assembly through a Precision Soft-Robotic Stamp Transfer Process

Gupta, Pasayat, and Ludois receive $1.5M for semiconductor research

Professors Chirag Gupta and Shubhra Pasayat, together with Professor Daniel Ludois, have received a $1.5 Million NSF ASCENT grant to utilize wide bandgap semiconductor materials to develop an ultra-efficient, high-voltage transistor.

Sustainable Energy Seminar by Prof. Giri: Jevons’ Paradox and Decarbonization

Over a hundred years ago, the English economist William Stanley Jevons keenly observed that technological advances that increase energy efficiency leads to further increased energy consumption and not the other way around, backed by impeccable data. In this talk, Prof. Giri will review Jevons' observations and link it to present observations.

Focus on new faculty: Lei Zhou is breaking down boundaries in precision mechatronics

Lei Zhou uses her interdisciplinary precision mechatronics research as a powerful tool for solving problems in various application areas, including semiconductor manufacturing equipment and robotics. With a systems focus, she develops novel and high-performance mechatronic solutions by exploiting the synergy between precision machine design, electric machines, and control algorithms.