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As aviation begins to transition from combustion-powered jet engines to cleaner electric motors, designers need to make sure that electrically propelled aircraft can achieve the same level of reliability via redundancy. That’s why Professors Bulent Sarlioglu and Thomas Jahns along with a group of students are working on a NASA-funded project to develop ultra-reliable fault-tolerant electric motor drives for future aircraft propulsion systems.

The Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub, a chancellor’s initiative started earlier in 2025, is working to help translate ideas into opportunities for entrepreneurial students, staff and faculty by creating a founder-first ecosystem at UW-Madison that develops talent and helps launch entrepreneurial careers.

There’s a booming industry demand for microchips. But meeting that demand is challenging for chipmakers, because current mechatronic systems have reached the limit for how fast they can produce them. With a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Prof. Lei Zhou aims to push mechatronic systems past that limit.

Prof. Chirag Gupta is using a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER award to study transistors made from ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors.