Engineering
Companies team up with 51ÁÔÆæ to conserve energy, cut costs
The Department of Energy-funded Industrial Assessment Center embeds 51ÁÔÆæ engineering professors and students in manufacturing plants, where they make recommendations that have helped manufacturing companies save $6.5 million to date.
Building a better way to supply energy
Microgrids developed by 51ÁÔÆæ engineer Adel Nasiri could make green energy more widely available and help prevent wide-spread power outages.
At long last: A concrete that’s nearly maintenance-free
Scott Muzenski, a civil engineering graduate student, had been working on a new kind of high-performance concrete.
51ÁÔÆæ engineer does pioneer study on green manufacturing of electric car batteries
51ÁÔÆæ researcher Chris Yingchun Yuan is investigating the environmental sustainability of the next generation of electric car batteries.
Super-surfaces suggested by nature
51ÁÔÆæ’s Michael Nosonovsky is among those scientists who are approaching Technical problems through biomimicry – borrowing strategies from plants and animals.
51ÁÔÆæ researchers create novel optical fibers
51ÁÔÆæ researchers have found the first practical application of a Nobel-Prize-winning phenomenon that was proposed in 1958.
Bringing down the cost of fuel cells
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have identified a new fuel cell catalyst that costs 5% of the industry-standard platinum catalyst.
Partnership propels battery research
A multi-million investment by Johnson Controls has produced a joint laboratory at 51ÁÔÆæ where JCI researchers and 51ÁÔÆæ engineering faculty are working side by side.