MADISON, Wis.—Congratulations to Bulent Sarlioglu, UW-Madison associate professor, 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 …
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5 Questions With Brad Markert, CMRP
MADISON, Wis.—Brad Markert, maintenance planner for Bemis in Appleton, Wis., recently took some time to chat with UW-Madison about what he learned in the Maintenance Management Certificate (MMC) program. Markert is a Certified Maintenance and …
Tinjum Returns From #BikeTheSun
For some Wisconsinites, Puerto Rico is closer than others. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, UW-Madison engineering professor James Tinjum was particularly affected, with relatives currently living on the island and his …
UW-Madison E-book shares cutting-edge project management tools with online graduate students
During more than a decade of teaching technical project management to graduate engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, professors Jeffrey Russell, Wayne Pferdehirt, and John Nelson found themselves circling around a new approach to …
Hot Coffee And Waste Heat: An Afternoon With Kathy Leifer
We sit in Colectivo during the peak afternoon hour. Over blaring indie rock music and the chatter of other coffee house inhabitants, Katherine Leifer, August 2017 graduate of UW-Madison’s Sustainable Systems Engineering master’s degree program, …
Persevering In The Face Of Challenges: Meet John Dolan
Grad school is hard, everyone knows it. John Dolan Want to make it harder? Try an online engineering master’s program while raising a family with a full-time job while deployed in the Middle East …
What’s So Special About Water Reclamation?
Water reclamation is vital to public health and recovering essential environmental resources, impacting the lives of Americans everyday. Besides being important to our well-being, water reclamation is a capital-intensive industry that encompasses a number of …
What’s Positive Train Control?
American rail systems are essentially safe. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there has been a 14 percent decrease in the number of train accidents in the country between 2014 and November 2017. Nevertheless, between …