Research

A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has received a $1.8 million grant to develop new materials for multiple uses, including the ability to withstand the corrosive environment within a molten salt nuclear reactor. The …

Remember when Captain Picard commanded the replicator on the Enterprise to make a cup of Earl Grey tea?“Well, we can’t make the tea, but we can [print] the cup,” Thoma says. The concept is simple enough, Thoma says. Conventional manufacturing methods …

Walk by Union South and you might hear the faint buzz of power tools. It’s the hum of creativity in the UW Makerspace next door in Wendt Commons, where students design and build whatever they can …

In the global economy, manufacturing is a central pillar that drives innovation and competition. It’s a fast-growing sector and a vital source of opportunity, which has only increased since metal additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, …

Click on this link to watch a six minute documentary on how our engineering lab collaborated with a heart surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Hospital to help with Joseph’s complicated heart surgery!

Surgeons are teaming up with engineers to use 3D printed models of patients’ hearts to prepare for complicated pediatric heart surgeries. Click HERE to read about how why 3D printed models are helping doctors and their …

Click on this link to read about Elsa, the sweet Great Dane who had abnormal growth in her left front limb, making it difficult for her to walk and how UWVC used a 3D printer …

3D printing, or “additive manufacturing,” is the process of using a machine to “print” layers of material to ultimately create a 3D object. It’s an emerging interdisciplinary area with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds—only a handful …

In 2015, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-e) program to develop 3D-printed heat exchangers for power plants. That grant allowed the researchers to design …