College of Engineering
For some Wisconsinites, Puerto Rico is closer than others. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, UW-Madison engineering professor James Tinjum was particularly affected, with relatives currently living on the island and his fiancé having grown up there. He wanted to help beyond just donating goods for immediate consumption. He wanted to make …
During more than a decade of teaching technical project management to graduate engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, professors Jeffrey Russell, Wayne Pferdehirt, and John Nelson found themselves circling around a new approach to the field. Whereas traditional project management focuses on methodical plans, they wanted to acknowledge the realities of a modern world …
We sit in Colectivo during the peak afternoon hour. Over blaring indie rock music and the chatter of other coffee house inhabitants, Katherine Leifer, August 2017 graduate of UW-Madison’s Sustainable Systems Engineering master’s degree program, tells me, a UW-Madison marketing intern, about her plan to save the environment. Leifer is enthusiastic and animated as …
Grad school is hard, everyone knows it. John Dolan Want to make it harder? Try an online engineering master’s program while raising a family with a full-time job while deployed in the Middle East with the military. That’s what John Dolan, a recent graduate of UW-Madison’s Master of Engineering: Engineering Management program and former …
Wisconsin Badger, engineer extraordinaire, international globetrotter Thomas Simmons, recent graduate of UW-Madison’s Master of Engineering: Engineering Management program, started traveling before he learned how to walk. Simmons moved around the U.S. a lot growing up in a military family, with both a father and a stepfather in the U.S. Navy. His first move occurred at …
Before completing an online master’s degree in Sustainable Systems Engineering at UW-Madison Engineering Professional Development, Blaise Kuo Tiong lived in some extreme climates throughout his career. And those climates are what led him to graduate school at UW-Madison. Blaise spent the past three and a half years working at the Maunakea Observatories at the Institute …
It all started with air shows Growing up, UW-Madison graduate Tony Milczarek and his brother developed an affinity for air shows. They crisscrossed Southern Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio as young adults in the pursuit of those powerful sights and sounds. But the explosive sensations emanating from those modern day fighter jets did more than just …
EPD: What have you learned from the program that you have been able to directly apply in the workplace? DF: The MEM program has taught me important management skills that I can directly apply to my new position as a team leader. Specifically, I’ve been applying the skills I learned in scheduling so that we …