Gianluca Mantovano’s favorite part of the tours he gives prospective students is what he calls the “grand finale.” It’s a look at the Myers Student Automotive Center in the Engineering Centers Building—home to the six University of Wisconsin-Madison vehicle teams and a major part of Mantovano’s daily life.
“This is the team I’m on,” the mechanical [...]

Civil and environmental engineering students Jonathan Blanchard , Kevin Orner and David Tengler receive a plaque from five communities in Ecuador that will benefit from a new water pipeline the students implemented in June. (large image)

“I’ve got a project for you,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Bosscher told Jonathan Blanchard and [...]

The 2008 Pi Mile Run generated more than $4,000, which will benefit a clean-water project in three communities in El Salvador. (large image)
As 255 Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along [...]

Tokyo sits on a tectonic plate boundary, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. So, for the capital and largest city of Japan, a seismic monitoring system to predict earthquakes is critical.
However, current technology can give residents only a few tens of seconds of warning that an earthquake is about to strike.
More than 6,000 miles away [...]

Power is blowing in the wind

Associate Professor Giri Venkataramanan (center) and a team of workers built a wind turbine in the Scottish Highlands. The community there is not connected to the electrical grid. (Large image)

The rolling hills of the Scottish highlands are dotted with small stone houses. Their residents, mostly farmers and craftsmen, enjoy a [...]

Posted by Hilary Parker
Mechanical and aerospace engineering major Zhen Xia is accustomed to solving problems that have cut-and-dried solutions, but an internship at IBM this past summer taught him how to approach problems that don’t have one right answer.
As part of a new internship program, Xia spent three months working with senior marketing executives at [...]