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Biomedical engineering conference invites manufacturers

The University of Wisconsin-Madison already puts on an annual design event at the end of each spring semester, but this year...

Re-engineering our economy to be sustainable and profitable

Today, sustainability still carries some linguistic baggage, but those same business execs might stick around to tal...

Mac attack was unfair, says UW engineer

In that case, it took just 30 minutes for someone...

UW Biomedical Engineering awarded $2.9 million research grant

, named for the late biomedical device inventor, has awarded the Biomedical Engineering department at UW-Madison a five-year, $580,000 annual grant for pursuing translational research, the repackaging and rethinking of existing pure research to get it ready for applications in the private sector. At the end...

3M donates $1.6 million to UW-Madison engineering building

The gift will take the form of $1.4 million in cash and $200,000 in 3M multimedia...

UW-Madison engineers apply award-winning technology to road building

However, highway officials who concern themselves with the cost of road construction may definitely notice the difference in the form of a much longer-lasting roa...

Social engineering - Coming to an IT ship near you?

Have you noticed recently the earnest discussions about a seemingly inalienable right to blog on company time and company topics? OK, maybe that overstates the argument a little bit, but the case in which Apple fired a couple of employees for their blogging activities on what Apple considered competitive secrets is only one of several that have generated furrowed br...

Engineers help turn science into interactive exhibits

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UW engineering career fair sees highest attendance in four years

Sponsored by , the fair brought at least 200 companies...

Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms

In a study published in the Aug. 1 issue of John Bo...

Appleton engineering firm gets $250,000 in tax credits to build facility

According to Governor Jim Doyle's office, the $2.4 million project will create 28 jobs in the area. The credits are part of Wisconsin's <a href="http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/cd/CD-bed-tz...

UW-M engineering dean heads for promising medical business

Gregory, who is stepping down as dean of UW-M's College of Engineering and Applied Science in June, will retain his job as a tenured professor; but more important, he is looking forward to makin...

Prairie Technologies works with UW engineer to visualize the brain

Well, by pressing the open tip of an electrolyte-filled glass pipette much thinner than a human hair against the membrane of an individual brain cell, researchers can isolate a patch and identify the electric current flowing through individual ion channels on a cell's membrane. This technique is known as the patch-clamp method, and...

Companies recruiting more UW engineering students

This is the best hiring situation weve seen for [bachelor of science] students since 2001, said Susan Piacenza, associate director of . Fall 2004...

UW engineers clear bottleneck in hydrogen production

MADISON - Carbon monoxide, or CO, has long been a major technical barrier to the efficient operation of fuel cells. But now, chemical and biological engineers at the University of...

Clickstream: Dreams engineers have

As Andrew Briney, editor in chief of Informat...

Engineers visualize electric memory as it fades

MADISON - While the memory inside electronic devices may often be more reliable than that of humans, it, too, can worsen over time. Now a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory may understand why. The results are published in the early online edition (May 23) of the journal Nature Materials. Smart cards, buzzers inside watch...

Student to graduate in the Dual Degree Physics and Engineering Program

Eau Claire, Wis This week Jonathan Watson will become the first student to graduate from the Watson, a native of Eau Claire, will earn his bachelors degree in physics from UW-Eau Claire and his bachelors degree in engineering from the Un...

Sonic Foundry appoints Engineering Dean and Cometa CEO to Board of Directors

MADISON - The Madison-based media communications company hopes to broaden the higher education and telecommunications market experience of its board of directors with the appointments. Peercy and Weis will ser...

Extreme Engineering Introduces High-Speed Network Accelerator

MADISON, Wis. - XPedite2000 is a high-speed network card that can process up to 2Gbps of IPs...

Wisconsin Engineers Devise Cutting-Edge Method to Cut Cheese

Madison, Wis. - Lasers do everything these days - from removing tattoos to playing music on compact discs. Now, in the great dairy state of Wisconsin, lasers have been harnessed to an entirely new purpose: slicing cheese. Xiaochun Li, a University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering professor and laser expert, along with graduate student Hongseok Choi, has become the first to ada...

The Role of Engineering in Health Science and Technology

Wisconsin has been a leader both in cutting-edge health care and engineering technology. With one of the nations leading research universities in UW-Madison, and leading-edge medical equipment companies like GE Medical Systems, the state is poised to lead again as the two fields merge more than ever. Although science and engineering have long contributed to health care by providing te...

Silicon Logic Engineering Ramps Up Custom Chips

Eau Claire, Wis.In a business world where even very specialized services and products quickly become commodities, The Eau Claire-based company specializes in design and verification of custom processing chips for h...