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Adaptive ski project gives people with disabilities a new chance to participate
Ran on 3/8/2013 on the UW-Madison College of Engineering news site Back in 2005, “sit-skis” for disabled cross-country skiers were expensive, uncomfortable and largely unavailable—except to a handful of Paralympic athletes. Today, more than 300 sitting-position skis enable a much wider group of people with lower-body limitations to participate in the popular winter sport. In…
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How industrial engineers improve healthcare
This story ran 4/19/2012 in Perspective Magazine During an intensive three-month period in fall 2011, UW-Madison graduate students Renaldo Blocker (left) and Sacha Duff (right) worked long hours in the emergency department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Whenever a victim of a car accident, stabbing or other incident arrived, they would accompany trauma…
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Optimizing internal combustion: CAREER award supports study of new diagnostic tool
This story ran 1/9/2012 for the UW-Madison College of Engineering For the past several decades, engineers have been investigating low-temperature combustion as a means of creating engines with diesel-like efficiency and no pollutant emissions. Optimizing low-temperature combustion to produce the most efficient possible engine also means considering lots of variables. In fact, the very nature…
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Retaining quality faculty: Collective giving effort keeps star professor on board
This article appeared in December of 2011 in Perspective. The offer was expansive: a chance to join the leadership of a new center for environmental technology in a brand-new building and a brand-new lab, collaboration with one of the leaders in the field of environmental engineering, and a chance to work in a state—Arizona—with huge…
Christie Taylor 