Entrance requirements:
Admission to AMEP is internal to UW Madison, you must be admitted to UW Madison or already be a UW Madison student to join AMEP.
Declaration requirements can be found on the AMEP Guide page under “How to Get In”.
AMEP is a Letters and Science (L&S) degree, a Bachelor of Science in AMEP (BS-AMEP), not a major. This means it cannot be added on as an additional major to a degree in another School or College. If you want to pursue AMEP and are not in L&S, you must transfer into L&S.
Declaring the AMEP degree:
Students are encouraged to declare AMEP as soon as possible in order to receive AMEP specific advising and be included on the AMEP mailing list to stay informed about AMEP current events and opportunities. Students should first familiarize themselves with the degree requirements and the four-year plan, the list of recommended or required courses then visit an AMEP advisor (listed below) to declare the degree.
Please schedule an advising appointment via Starfish. Some faculty advisors may not use Starfish so if they are not on the page or have no available meetings, please email them directly with your availability to schedule an advising appointment. When contacting a professor, students should make sure they put “AMEP” in the subject line and send a brief clear message, since professors receive many emails.
Please note that Professors usually have advising appointments only during the regular Fall and Spring semesters. The professional academic advisor will have availability throughout the year.
Advisors and Department Homepages:
The average AMEP student will typically interact with the AMEP professional advisor and three faculty advisors:
- An applied mathematics advisor in the Department of Mathematics
- A physics advisor in the Department of Physics
- An engineering advisor in the engineering department the student chooses to focus on
A list of current faculty advisors follows. Note that other engineering faculty besides those listed below can serve as an AMEP advisor if they are willing. The engineering part of the AMEP curriculum should be any coherent concentration of courses at the intermediate to advanced level.
AMEP Advisors
Academic Advisor
- Morgan Adams, Undergraduate Advisor, Mathematics
Applied Mathematics Advisors
- Fabian Waleffe, Professor, Mathematics and Engineering Physics (EP) AMEP Faculty Coordinator
- Leslie Smith, Professor, Mathematics and Engineering Physics (EP)
- Saverio Spagnolie, Professor, Mathematics
- Sam Stechmann, Professor, Mathematics
Physics Advisors
- Deniz Yavuz, Professor, Physics, AMEP Physics Faculty Coordinator
- Cary Forest, Professor, Physics, AMEP Alumnus
- Robert Mc Dermott, Professor, Physics
- Thad Walker, Professor, Physics
Engineering Advisors
- , Professor, Materials Sciences and Engineering (MSE)
- , Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- , Professor, Engineering Physics (EP)
- Chris Hegna, Professor, Nuclear Engineering (NE)
- Riccardo Bonazza, Professor, Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics (EMA)
- Michael Graham, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE)
- Irena Knezevic, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) (Electrical Engineering)
- , Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) (Computer Engineering)
- Hannah Silber, Lecturer, Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Nimish Pujara, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
- Wenxiao Pan, Professor, Mechanical Engineering (ME)
- Chin Wu, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Advising Process:
Initial Advising. The first meeting between student and the advisor will cover the following:
- The overall nature of the program and a review of the AMEP Degree Requirements.
- The AMEP advising system, including the desirability of early discussions with the physics and engineering advisors although the student need not officially meet them until the fourth semester.
After the initial advising, and before the fourth semester, the student’s special interests should be taking shape. The student should feel free to consult with any engineering advisor on possible engineering concentrations or course sequences. It is sometimes necessary to begin the engineering science sequence in the third semester. Even though a choice of engineering specialty does not have to be made until the fourth semester, the student should try to decide on this as early as possible.