A student in the lab of Assistant Professor Jerald Thomas (left) tries to navigate a virtual world while wearing virtual reality goggles. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Alyssa Schnorenberg (left), a scientist in the lab of Professor Brooke Slavens, and student Anthony Nguyen demonstrate how they visualize the muscle activation necessary for normal human movement. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Professor Habib Rahman (center) and his lab members use a robotic arm they designed to take a water bottle from Brian Thompson (left), 51猎奇 chief innovation and partnership officer. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Associate Professor Ben Church (right) and graduate students Ian Smith (left) and Elmer Prenzlow are researching how to increase the tensile strength of a metal alloy often used in industry when it is exposed to high temperatures. Tensile strength refers to the maximum stress that a material can bear before breaking when it is stretched or pulled. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Student Patrick Severson explains how internal components of a tire, made of various carbon fiber composites developed in Associate Professor Rani El Hajjar鈥檚 lab, affect tire performance. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
With Assistant Professor Chanyeop Park (left) and 51猎奇 Chancellor Mark Mone looking on, Hassan Abdallah (right) describes projects in the Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems to Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman. The event Nov. 2 celebrated new research labs in the College of Engineering & Applied Science. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Jay Rothman, Universities of Wisconsin president, holds up a gift from the engineering college 鈥� a 3D printed miniature of the 51猎奇 Pounce statue. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Some of the newer faculty in biomedical engineering spoke with guests about the research in their respective labs, including (from left) Assistant Professors Mahsa Dabagh, Jacob Rammer, Qingsu Cheng and Priya Premnath. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
Speakers at the event included (from left) CEAS Associate Dean Andrew Graettinger; CEAS Dean Brett Peters; Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman; 51猎奇 Chancellor Mark Mone; Craig Rigby, vice president of echnology at Clarios; 51猎奇 Provost Andrew Daire and CEAS Associate Dean Prasenjit Guptasarma. (51猎奇 Photo/Troye Fox)
A two-year renovation has turned the ninth and 10th floors of 51猎奇’s Engineering & Mathematical Sciences building into a bright and modern research area and workspace that encourages collaboration.
The College of Engineering & Applied Science showed off the new facilities last week during an open house that included Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman.
鈥淲e wanted to show off the incredible transformation. But we’re also highlighting the research and the work that our faculty and students are doing in many different areas,” Dean Brett Peters said. “It鈥檚 all about fostering collaboration.鈥�
