On March 9-10, 2019, Professors Notbohm, Thevamaran and Christian Franck co-hosted the 2019 Midwest SEM Student Symposium at the UW-Madison College of Engineering with Dr. John Considine from the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. The symposium drew students from eight universities across the Midwest. Through 23 student presentations and two faculty keynote presentations, it highlighted amazing research being conducted, and was generously supported by the Society for Experimental Mechanics Inc.