Engineering EXPO is an event put on by the UW Madison Engineering students to showcase all things engineering. This event is geared towards middle to early high school aged students. This year we are completely online due to the pandemic. EXPO is free, and features great engineering games, activities, showcases from student clubs and industry, […]
Climate change is pushing American infrastructure to its limits
Last week, a deep freeze settled over Texas, knocking out power to many residents. The disaster illustrates an important point — global climate change is pushing America’s infrastructure to the limit. For more, WORT Producer Jonah Chester spoke with Dr. Line Roald, an Assistant Professor in the college of engineering at UW-Madison. (PHOTO: Fre Sonneveld […]
No More Landfill! Complex Plastic Recycling in Post-Industrial Waste
Tonight the Perpetual Notion Machine talks with Professor George Huber and Professor Reid van Lehn of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Energy’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. They are the co-authors of the paper ‘Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and […]
Engineering Expo
Held at The University of Wisconsin Madison, Engineering Expo is a giant student-led showcase of all things engineering geared towards Middle to early high schoolers. Expo is completely free and will feature great engineering games and activities, club and industry showcases, and some amazing speakers! (If possible, I would love to come in and speak […]
Graduate Student Working Conditions
For this episode, PNM-ers Kevin Lauterjung and Kelly Schwartz sit down with Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students Kyle Daruwalla and Stephen Dennison, to discuss the controversy over Dr. Akbar Sayeed and the death of his former student Dr. John Brady, as well as broader issues pertaining to graduate student labor. We talk about the […]
Applying engineering knowledge to archaeology
From the ancient Roman circus to your radio, in this episode of Perpetual Notion Machine host Will Cushman discusses with guest Bela Sandor the topic of ancient chariots, those horse-drawn, two-wheeled vehicles used by civilizations from Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire. Think about this for second: automobiles have been around for a little over […]
