The UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Club’s attempt to create a human-powered recumbent bike didn’t quite pan out.
Kevin Macauley demonstrates how to use the vehicle prototype built by him and fellow UW-Madison students, including, from top left, Dylan Zinkgraf, Andrew Nasr and Teekay Kowalewski, outside the Engineering Centers building.
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UW-Madison student Kevin Macauley demonstrates the vehicle prototype outside the Engineering Centers building. Macauley said the bike captures people's attention as the driver zooms around on area bike trails.
The @UWMechEngr Human Powered Vehicle Team isn’t the only group to design, build & compete in @ASMEdotorg-sponsored competitions, but they may be the only ones to test their vehicle on a frozen lake. Check out their recent test drive! @UWMadEngr @UWMadison #BadgerEngineers pic.twitter.com/zjg61DnLmc
— UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering (@UWMechEngr) February 1, 2023
UW-Madison students, including Teekay Kowalewski, right, talk about the parts of the vehicle prototype they built, with Andrew Nasr, at left, and Kevin Macauley in the Engineering Centers building.
UW-Madison student Kevin Macauley displays a studded tire used on the prototype. The snow tires are an addition to the new bike the students are building for a competition later this spring, as they hope to add a Midwestern flair to it.
From left, UW-Madison students Lincoln Devine, Andrew Nasr, Dylan Zinkgraf, Kevin Macauley and Teekay Kowalewski show off their vehicle prototype in the Engineering Centers building.
Fave 5: Reporter Kimberly Wethal shares her favorite stories of 2022
In the weeks before I joined the Wisconsin State Journal in September, I was told this: Remember that a higher education institution is like their own city. It has its own character and struggles, defined by the students who learn there and the faculty who teach them.
I have seen this over and over again, and it was particularly clear when I visited UW-Platteville at Richland a week after the University of Wisconsin System ordered degree-fulfilling classes to cease because of low enrollment. During my visit, I found many of the devastated students to be emotionally invested in their campus community — and committed to saving it.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
