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1,000 Pitches [Feature Story] 11/20 College of Engineering

Michigan Engineering Entrepreneurship: 1,000 Pitches and a new home for TechArb

Despite the flagging economy, the spirit of entrepreneurship is thriving at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Competitions and spin-offs make that spirit of entrepreneurship palpable at the College.

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[News Byte] 11/20 U-M News Service

Smartphone app illuminates power consumption

A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan.

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[News Byte] 11/17 U-M News Service

Learn about serious games in education, medicine and business

Held on North Campus on Nov. 19, Serious Games Expo was a showcase of simulation and game-type activities being used for teaching and skill mastery in education, medicine, business and industry. A flight simulator is one example of a serious game--a type of activity designed to foster deep, multidisciplinary, sensory learning.

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[News Byte] 11/13 U-M News Service

New $10-million Department of Energy center to focus on plasma research

A new center at the U-M College of Engineering will enable fundamental research on low-temperature plasmas--ionized gases with vast potential for practical technological advancements in fields such as energy, lighting, microelectronics and medicine. The Center for Predictive Control of Plasma Kinetics: Multi-phase and Bounded Systems is funded by a $10-million, 5-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

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[News Byte] 11/10 University Record

Contest exceeding goal of gathering 1,000 ideas for new businesses or products

Ideas are bubbling up across campus as part of MPowered Entrepreneurship's second annual 1,000 Pitches competition. Smartphone applications, greener living schemes and proposals to bolster the state's economy are just a few of the categories in which students are brainstorming.

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[Media] 11/10 CNN

Detroit's new employers

Detroit needs jobs. The city's unemployment rate hovers around 28%, the worst in the nation, and the city's budget deficit is near $300 million. Both Detroit's residents and its government need new employers to recharge the local economy. Ann Marie Sastry, professor of mechanical, biomedical and materials science engineering, is named as one of seven innovators helping to bring jobs to the Detroit area. She is CEO of a company working to develop advanced lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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[Media] 11/07 AnnArbor.com

Deal of the Year: U-M's North Campus Research Complex

The acquisition of the ex-Pfizer site, renamed the North Campus Research Complex, is AnnArbor.com Business Review's "Deal of the Year" for 2009. "It's truly a watershed moment in the university's history - probably the biggest event in 50 or maybe 100 years," U-M Vice President Stephen Forrest said recently.

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