Today is May 1, 2008. This is the Global Warming Era. Thanks to Al Gore, everyone seems to be familiar with the pressing issue of Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, but in case you haven’t, allow me to recap.
 
Globally, we emit nearly 8 Billion tons of CO2 per year, a number that, until […]

For three weeks in January, 30 University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students explored the city and met the people of Cape Town, South Africa. And during the 2008 LeaderShape Institute, held on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, they learned to change the world one goal at a time.
The Wisconsin students were paired with […]

More than 100 people attended the fall 2007 Pic-Nuke—one of several social, service and outreach activities that build community among UW-Madison American Nuclear Society student chapter members. (Large image)

As a glistening sun rose over the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus on a summer Friday morning, latecomers straggled into Mickie’s Dairy Bar.
By 7 a.m., 11 members […]

For their senior design project, mechanical engineering undergraduates Adam Schumacher, Kevin King and Mike Kloosterboer are reconfiguring an electric motor to couple with a standard snowmobile chassis. The UW-Madison Clean Snowmobile Team will race the electric sled in March in the Society of Automotive Engineers Zero-Emissions Electric Snowmobile Event (Large image)

Thanks to donations from Madison-based […]

Materials science and engineering undergraduate Rachel Bible is a fixture in the classroom, but a rarity on ice: She is one of only two engineering students ever to play on the UW-Madison women’s hockey team. (Large image)

Rachel Bible (Large image)

What do you get when you mix two NCAA women’s hockey championships, a lot of math […]

As Ellen Visscher placed a red sticker on her nametag, designating her major as civil and environmental engineering, she looked around the main level of the Engineering Career Services and said: “This is a little chaotic.”The University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman had just stepped into the largest career fair in the history of the UW-Madison campus. […]