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Avdeev named director of innovation at Lubar Entrepreneurship Center

by UWMRF
Engineering, Kellner Fellowship, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Partnerships
08/14/2018

Ilya Avdeev has been named director of innovation at the new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. In this role, Avdeev — an associate professor of mechanical engineering who has been instrumental in fostering entrepreneurship at UWM — will lead program development and partnership cultivation.

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Programs help manufacturers increase energy efficiency and sustainability, save money

by UWMRF
Catalyst Grant Program, Energy, Engineering, News
04/05/2018
Read the original article from the Journal Sentinel here. While many large corporations have launched internal programs to enhance their energy efficiencies and environmental sustainability, most smaller companies do not have the same internal resources and often miss out on the revenue-saving opportunities sustainability can provide.
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The $1 Water Sensor

by UWMRF
Engineering, Nanotechnology, News, Sensors, Water
01/08/2018
Dr. Woo Jin Chang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, has developed a menu of miniature electrochemical sensors that can detect—at low-cost and instantaneously—heavy metals, water acidity, and nutrients in drinking water and other fluids. Three Wisconsin companies have licensed the sensor and now Chang and his co-inventor are collaborating with a California-based company to commercialize it.
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Engineering, nursing ‘hackathon’ explores solutions to health care issues

by UWMRF
Engineering, Healthcare, News, NSF I-Corps Program
11/03/2017
A National Science Foundation grant is helping UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science work with other disciplines on campus to bring more women and underrepresented groups into innovation. In January, UWM became one of eight National Science Foundation I-Corps sites to receive $30,000 to promote inclusion of underrepresented populations in the National Innovation Network.
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How High-Tech Entrepreneurs Are Energizing Milwaukee

by UWMRF
Engineering, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, NSF I-Corps Program, Partnerships
10/31/2017
If you sense that something is stirring or hear a buzz, it might just be the sound of Milwaukee’s high-tech community building the foundation for a new entrepreneurial economy. In the past several years, an outcropping of high-tech entrepreneurs has emerged here, universities have gone all out to teach entrepreneurial skills, and established companies are on board to support this emerging startup ecosystem. But perceptions change slowly, as the underlying reality shifts.
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UWM-developed app helps protect patients’ brains during surgery

by UWMRF
Engineering, Healthcare, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, News, Partnerships
10/05/2017
The work of some UWM students is literally helping make people’s lives better. The students in UWM’s App Brewery worked with doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin to develop an app that helps guide doctors during the delicate process of brain surgery. Incredibly, patients are awake during the surgery. The app, called NeuroMapper, is a tablet-based tool that aids surgeons who are removing a tumor or tissue by helping them test whether they are encroaching on tissue that would impair functions if removed.
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