UW-Madison Grainger Institute for Engineering

We’re proud to announce that GIE Fellow Sangkee Min was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant for his work investigating properties of ceramics. Min’s research will help expand ceramic applications to new fields like biomedical, manufacturing, and even smartphones!

Min earns NSF CAREER Award: Cutting ceramics loose from their difficult reputation - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison Many of us can relate to the dreaded experience of dropping our smartphone and desperately hoping the screen doesn’t break as we watch the precious device crash onto the ground. But if that phone’s screen happened to be made of sapphire, it would be practically shatterproof. That’s just one ex...

GIE Director Dan Thoma's enthusiasm for technological advances in manufacturing and his optimism about the future were infectious during his presentation at Colorado Mountain College on June 10th at the Vail Symposium.

Click on the link to read the recap from Dan's presentation and get more information about the Vail Symposium.

How are we creating the future? - Vail Symposium Dan Thoma’s enthusiasm for technological advances in manufacturing and his optimism about the future were infectious during his June 10 presentation at Colorado Mountain College. Dan demonstrated how manufacturing advances have resulted in smaller, more efficient items such as pace-makers. He show...

Congratulations to our colleagues Jason Kawasaki and Andrew Boydston, and Energy & Sustainability Lead Xudong Wang on their UW2020 awards!

Developing the Next Generation of Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials
Jason Kawasaki, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

From Molecules to Systems: A New Era of Multidimensional 3D Printing
Andrew Boydston, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Nanogenerator-Driven Self-Activated Electrical Stimulation for Enhanced Wound Healing
Xudong Wang, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Read more about these projects and the UW2020 projects here:

UW2020 Round 5 Projects: Quantum emitters to food safety The goal of UW2020 is to stimulate and support highly innovative research at UW–Madison and to support acquisition of shared instruments or equipment that will foster significant advances in research.

Congratulations to Dimitris Papailiopoulosfor winning an NSF CAREER Award to help him approach the ongoing issue that machine learning algorithms have with robustness in our world.

Read about Dimitris and his unconventional strategy to take on this challenge:

Papailiopoulos earns NSF CAREER Award: What can cellphone clarity teach machine learning? - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison Among a growing list of everyday uses, machine learning powers the silicon brains behind digital assistants like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, and allows intelligent control systems to steer self-driving cars. But even though machine learning solutions have become incredibly smart in recent ye...