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 …
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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 …
Meet Thomas Simmons
Wisconsin Badger, engineer extraordinaire, international globetrotter Thomas Simmons, recent graduate of UW-Madison’s Master of Engineering: Engineering Management program, started traveling before he learned how to walk. Simmons moved around the U.S. a lot growing up …
Some Like It Cold: How To Get Your Sustainability Degree From UW While Living In Antarctica
Before completing an online master’s degree in Sustainable Systems Engineering at UW-Madison Engineering Professional Development, Blaise Kuo Tiong lived in some extreme climates throughout his career. And those climates are what led him to graduate …
Engine Systems Grad Aaron Foege Uses Master’s To Create Patent
MADISON, Wis. – In his Master’s of Engineering Engine Systems program, Aaron Foege was recruited by his peers to join groups creating engines for vast ocean liners, massive power plants and vintage aircraft. But Foege …
UW Grad Turns Passion For Fighter Jets Into Career
It all started with air shows Growing up, UW-Madison graduate Tony Milczarek and his brother developed an affinity for air shows. They crisscrossed Southern Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio as young adults in the pursuit of …
13 Questions with Derek Ferguson, 2016 Engineering Management grad
EPD: What have you learned from the program that you have been able to directly apply in the workplace? DF: The MEM program has taught me important management skills that I can directly apply to …