Experiential learning opportunities in 2024-25
These opportunities for experiential learning at UW–Madison allow you to leverage student and faculty expertise and help develop the talent that is building the future of Wisconsin and the world.
Advance your business with UW–Madison
These opportunities for experiential learning at UW–Madison allow you to leverage student and faculty expertise and help develop the talent that is building the future of Wisconsin and the world.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have teamed up with global bike company Trek Bicycle on a new research endeavor that demonstrates the potential health and environmental benefits of cycling. Partially funded by Trek, the research conducted by the Health Oriented Transportation Initiative (HOT) at the UW-Madison Global Health Institute shows that increasing cycling and decreasing routine driving is an effective way to improve human health and combat climate change.
Last spring, in one of his first moves after becoming CEO of Lands’ End in Dodgeville, Jerome Griffith met with UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss ties to the university. Lands’ End CEO Jerome Griffith and UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank met at Lands’ End headquarters in 2017 to discuss a closer relationship between the retailing …
UW–Madison engineers have invented a device that automates the process of counting cranberries on the bush and estimating the harvest. The sheer labor involved in counting cranberries the old-fashioned way prompted Ocean Spray's Ben Tilberg to work with researchers in the electrical and computer engineering department to pursue a more efficient, technologically advanced method.
In December 2016, Monsanto donated a $10 million, 100,000-square-foot facility—a warren of labs, greenhouses and growth chambers—to UW–Madison to become the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (WCIC). WCIC leaders hope the center will add to its string of plant biotechnology achievements as one of just a few public facilities in the country dedicated to plant transformation.
Representatives from 88 businesses visited the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus Wednesday to learn how to get ahead by tapping UW–Madison resources. Some of the attendees already work with the university to recruit employees, partner on research, or license products and processes, while others are just getting started.
Manufacturing industries rely on the efforts of factory employees who work daily to make, package, prepare and deliver the products we find on our shelves. That’s a lot of physical effort, and the strain can lead to various injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or tendonitis in the wrists, arms and shoulders. Risk of injury is hard on workers, and can create costs to employers for workers’ compensation, lost time and reduced productivity. “We want to solve these problems before people get hurt,” says Rob Radwin, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of industrial systems engineering. Radwin has been studying this problem for more than two decades, and he may be able to harness relatively simple technological tools such as smartphones to create a solution that is easy, efficient and economically viable.
UW-Madison engineering student Chris Nguyen of Waukesha, Wisconsin, won GE’s “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition last fall, receiving a 10-week paid internship at the GE Global Research Center and a scholarship of up to $100,000 to continue his education. The contest challenged students to disprove a catchphrase using GE technology, and Nguyen decided that he could indeed "unring a bell."
Shine Medical Technologies of Madison is moving ahead with an effort to make a vital medical isotope at a new plant in Janesville. The isotope, molybdenum-99, is needed for about 20 million procedures annually in the United States alone. “Moly-99” quickly decays into a form, technetium-99, that is useful for medical scans used to detect cancer and assess blood supply to the heart. The UW–Madison spinoff’s Janesville plant is slated to employ about 150.