Category: In the News

An itsy bitsy solar-powered, phone-charging Little Free Library installed on Marquette Street

In this digital age, most have dealt with this problem: Your phone dies and you don’t have a phone charger. You ask around and no one else nearby has a phone charger. You can’t make that important phone call.

IEEE recognizes three College of Engineering faculty with prestigious honors

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently recognized WEMPEC Prof. Bulent Sarlioglu and Prof. Thomas Jahns with some of its highest honors.

National Academy of Inventors selects two College of Engineering researchers as fellows

University of Wisconsin–Madison professors Thomas R. “Rock” Mackie and Bulent Sarlioglu have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced today.

WEMPEC Co-Director Prof. Jahns Announces Retirement

Prof. Tom Jahns has announced that he will retire from his active faculty position at UW-Madison on June 30, 2021. Prof. Jahns joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1998 as the Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electric Machines.

Sarlioglu receives IEEE PES Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award

Bulent Sarlioglu, the Jean van Bladel Associate Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2021 Cyril Veinott Electromechanical Energy Conversion Award from the IEEE Power & Energy Society.

Madison’s tech sector booms, driven by UW innovation

In 2020, the country’s biggest tech migration increase took place in Madison, according to LinkedIn data published by Big Technology on December 17, 2020. The boom is fueled in part by UW–Madison, which provides cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial graduates and researchers, and a well-educated local workforce that motivates some employers to open offices in Madison.

Thomas A. Lipo Fund Created

Former students create a fund to carry on the work of electrical engineering professor Thomas Lipo PhD'68.

Prof. Jahns named Hilldale Award Winner!

The Hilldale Award is UW-Madison's highest honor on-campus for Research, Teaching, and Service. It is given annually to only 4 faculty members, one each from Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Biological Sciences. Congratulations to Prof. Jahns!

Prof. Ludois’s “Wednesday Night at the Lab” talks on PBS about Future Electric Machines

Prof. Ludois discusses the challenges wind turbines and robots pose to magnetic machine technology and ways to meet the needs for electric machines in the future.  Could electrostatic machines be the solution?

Professor Sarlioglu wins Grand Nagamori Award

Congratulations to Professor Bulent Sarlioglu, who has been named a recipient of the Nagamori Award. Sarlioglu is recognized by his “Pioneering research and development on high-efficiency and high-power density new and classical electric motors with wide bandgap device power electronic drives.”