Prof. Franck launches a first-year engineering course for EMA/Aerospace students in Fall 2024, also see article in the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Prof. Franck is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!
NSF CAREER award on marine energy oscillating foils
A wonderful overview of our new NSF CAREER award, focused on advancing oscillating foils for marine energy harvesting (April ’24)
Seal whisker project : new journal article on frequency of vortex shedding
Congrats to Trevor (grad student) and Kirby (former Undergrad researcher) who co-(first) authored a publication on the modulation of vortex shedding in flow over seal whiskers
CFPM Video from UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering
Bernardo has defended his PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Bernardo, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Bernardo will remain in Madison through August before starting a postdoc at University of Campinas, Brazil with Prof. William Wolf. (May 2023)
Can we harness the power of the oceans?
Check out our lab’s educational video on marine energy and our work on oscillating marine energy turbines aimed at high school students, created by Futurum Careers (Dec ’22)
Sara Hartke wins NSF Graduate Fellowship!
Congrats to Sara Hartke, PhD student, who recently won a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship (April ’23)
Congrats to Mukul for defending his PhD thesis!
Mukul will be headed to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a postdoc, he will be missed!
Congrats to Riley for defending his MS thesis!
Congrats Riley on your M.S. degree! Riley will be headed to the Jacobs Space Exploration Group at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. (Oct 22)