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Videos & Podcasts

  • Sunny outlook: U-M's 2009 Solar Car Team (external link)
  • NanoFET: Students design electrostatic thruster (external link)
  • Student Teams (external link)
  • Detecting suicide bombers (external link)
  • U-M students design a low-cost surgical lamp (external link)
  • Engineering social change
  • Solar car ready to race (external link)
  • Satellite-based Internet in the developing world (external link)

Student Projects: News Releases

  • 10/28/09 College of Engineering
    Another third place finish for Michigan Solar Car Team
  • 10/26/09 Michigan Engineering Forum
    ENGINEERIA: Meet the solar car team
  • 10/20/09 Michigan Engineering Forum
    ENGINEERIA: The World Solar Challenge -- A Long Run Down the Stuart Highway
  • 10/13/09 Michigan Engineering Forum
    ENGINEERIA: The World Solar Challenge -- Coming Up Fast
  • 06/24/09 U-M News Service
    Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers
  • 06/22/09 College of Engineering
    Human-powered submarine team competing this week
  • 05/27/09 U-M News Service
    Get a first glimpse of the new U-M solar car

Related Links

  • Concrete Canoe student team website (external link)
  • MRacing Formula SAE team (external link)
  • Michigan Engineering Multidisciplinary Design Minor
  • Michigan Engineering Student Teams and Multidisciplinary Design Projects
  • Michigan Engineering Wilson Student Team Project Center
  • Design Expo Website
  • SolarBubbles team website (external link)
  • Solar Car team blog

Student Projects and Teams: Central to the Michigan Engineering student experience

09/22/2009 College of Engineering
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Bringing the Internet to Africa

Through classes and extracurricular activities, student projects and student teams are central to the educational experience at the College of Engineering. Students build vehicles to compete in races for solar cars, bajas, concrete canoes, and human-powered submarines and helicopters, to name a few. They invent IED detectors, build bridges, create low-cost surgical lamps, medical data loggers and more.They even install satellite dishes that bring the internet to Africa. No matter what your engineering interest is, there is a student team or project for you.

 

Student Projects and Teams in the News

  • 10/27/2009 Michigan Daily
    Campus clubs: Solar car team
  • 07/02/2009 USA Today
    Students design, build, race submarines
  • 06/01/2009 UNLV Rebel Yell
    Bridge contest brings engineers from across the U.S.
  • 04/18/2009 Ann Arbor Chronicle
    U-M Engineering social change
  • 03/17/2009 Michigan Daily
    Engineering students bring Internet to Africa
  • 02/02/2009 The New York Times
    Bringing the Internet to remote African villages
  • 12/11/2008 Great Lakes IT Report
    1,000 Pitches contest showcases U-M innovation
  • 10/30/2008 Concentrate
    IOE424 students developing Segway-share program
  • 10/08/2008 Michigan Daily
    To prepare for world contest, solar car team may sit out next year's race
  • 09/16/2008 Detroit Free Press
    U-M seeks high-tech connection to music
  • 07/23/2008 Associated Press
    U-M car wins 10-day, 2,500-mile solar challenge
  • 07/20/2009 Air Force Times
    College students cobble together bomb detector
  • 06/26/2009 United Press International
    Students design portable IED detector
  • 04/30/2009 Good Magazine
    Another genius low-cost solution: The pie-pan surgical lamp
  • 03/23/2009 Crain's Detroit Business
    University of Michigan team wins Clean Energy Prize
  • 03/12/2009 Space Ref
    USRA calls attention to need for university-class missions
  • 01/30/2009 Michigan Daily
    M-Heal invents battery-operated surgical lamp
  • 11/10/2008 Michigan Daily
    Students build record-setting fuel cell airplane
  • 10/14/2008 Chronicle of Higher Education
    U-M students use Bluetooth to help blind and seeing pedestrians roam cities
  • 09/30/2008 Ann Arbor News
    U-M Office of Technology to showcase inventions
  • 08/21/2008 Detroit Free Press
    Students plug into Volt project

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