Lennon Rodgers

Position title: Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab, UW–Madison

Website: Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab Website

Lennon Rodgers

Lennon Rodgers is Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab and an Associate Teaching Professor at UW–Madison.

He oversees more than 50,000 square feet of hands-on engineering design and fabrication facilities, including a makerspace, machine shop, visualization studio, and engineering shops. His background includes engineering and teaching at MIT and work as a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Lennon holds a PhD and MS in mechanical engineering from MIT and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.