Mover. Shaker. Likes 🔥 & 🧊. Makes better 🦿, 🚗, and 🏭, but making new #BadgerEngineers is the best. ❤ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Meet Darryl Thelen, professor of @UWMechEngr @UWMadEngr, who researches the biomechanics and neuromuscular coordination of human movement, with applications in orthopedics, rehabilitation and sports medicine. @UW_NMBL warf.org/commercialize/uw-ma…
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🚀 Badger Engineers are cleared for takeoff!
The @UniversitiesWI Board of Regents approved the creation of a new aerospace engineering major. It will launch in @UWMechEngr in fall 2026!
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Welcome to new @UWMechEngr faculty member So Yeon Kim, whose work focuses on understanding and engineering materials' damage tolerance under open-system reactions.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
🛠️ Thanks to a generous gift from alumnus Bjorn Borgen, @UWMechEngr has built upon its hands-on design offerings, enabling opportunities for all students—whether through class projects or student competition teams.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
24 Nov 2025
Mini soft robots being developed in the lab of @UWMechEngr’s @yunusalapan can bend, roll, jump and crawl, making them candidates to deliver drugs in targeted areas of the body.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
Krishnan Suresh works on topology optimization, design for additive manufacturing, computational mechanics and high-performance computing. #WARF100 @uwchancellor @UWMechEngr @UWMadEngr warf.org/commercialize/uw-ma…
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
29 Oct 2025
Meeting the growing demand for microchips is challenging, in part because current mechatronic systems have reached a limit. With an @NSF CAREER Award, Lei Zhou of @UWMechEngr & @UWMadisonECE aims to push mechatronic systems past that limit.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
14 Oct 2025
Welcome (back) to @hagenowrobotics, a new assistant professor of CS. He researches HRI and robot teaching/teaming.
Hagenow completed his postdoc with @julie_a_shah at @MIT_CSAIL & @MITAeroAstro — but before that, he was a @UWMechEngr PhD.
Learn more: cs.wisc.edu/2025/09/17/welco…
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
Scott Sanders develops optical sensors and instrumentation that help solve critical problems related to energy, manufacturing and human health. #WARF100 @uwchancellor @UWMechEngr @UWMadEngr warf.org/commercialize/uw-ma…
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22 Sep 2025
A transformational gift from @UWMechEngr alumnus Bjorn Borgen (BSME ’62) - On, Wisconsin! 👐#BadgerEngineers #MEBadgers
22 Sep 2025
With a $25 million gift to support the active learning wing of our forthcoming building and experiential learning, alumnus Bjorn Borgen is leaving a legacy.
The Bjorn Borgen Learning Commons will be a space for connection and collaboration.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
9 Jun 2025
Congratulations to the #UWMadison teams who pitched and placed at the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest: Galasys, FerroMX, Saturn Agrisense, SwallowEase Diagnostics, Synpha Biosciences, and CellTrack. #WITreps #WisconsinInnovates
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
2 Jun 2025
Modern robots can move with incredible agility but still fall short in endurance.
Though most research has focused on better batteries, there is another possibility: Build robots that eat, @UWMechEngr’s @LabPikul writes in @ConversationUS.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
27 May 2025
Congrats to @UWMechEngr’s Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng for being elected a fellow of @RoySocChem!
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
13 May 2025
By combining topology optimization and #3DPrinting, a team of @UWMechEngr and @UWMadisonMSE engineers created a twisty high-temperature heat exchanger that outperformed a traditional design in heat transfer, power density and effectiveness.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
6 May 2025
Father of three and Navajo Nation member Alastair Big Luna moved across the country at age 40 to pursue his PhD @UWMechEngr. He’ll be among the roughly 90 engineering PhD grads walking across the Kohl Center stage Friday to kick off #UWGrad.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
1 May 2025
What will it take for bioinspired robots to match the endurance levels of their animal counterparts? @UWMechEngr’s @LabPikul explores the energy storage challenges and possibilities in a paper in @SciRobotics.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
28 Apr 2025
An emerging technology called volumetric #3DPrinting is pushing the boundaries of manufacturing even further—and @UWMechEngr’s Xiao Kuang is at the forefront of its development. He’s co-authored a roadmap for the technology in @NatRevMater.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
22 Apr 2025
.@UWMechEngr major Ben Prunuske has some advice for incoming engineering students: Get involved, whether it’s through research, student orgs or mentoring.
“There are lots of doors you can open if you go looking.”
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
10 Apr 2025
With a groundbreaking computational model, @UWMechEngr’s Weiyu Li has gained new understanding of a phenomenon that causes lithium-ion batteries to fail.
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering retweeted
31 Mar 2025
.@UWMechEngr researchers used molecular simulations to validate a cutting-edge machine learning model to design a better membrane that efficiently removes PFAS—”forever chemicals”—from drinking water.
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