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12/22/2012 College of Engineering
For their research and teaching achievements, engineering professors Anna Michalak and Max Shtein each received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at a White House ceremony on December 19, 2008. Find out more > |
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05/21/2012 College of Engineering
The president of the United States, the founder of the Center for the Education of Women, a renowned jazz musician, a pioneer in solar innovation, a legendary broadcast journalist and a former U-M provost now serving as president of the National Academy of Engineering will receive honorary degrees at spring commencement. Find out more > |
05/21/2012 LabLog
An invention from the College of Engineering promises to make radiation imaging more portable, with the potential to catch nuclear terrorists and improve safety in nuclear power plants. Find out more > |
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05/17/2012 College of Engineering
Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the planet, according to analysis by a group of mission scientists led by a U-M professor. This is the first time liquid water has been detected and photographed outside Earth. Find out more > |
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05/17/2012 College of Engineering
The future of mobility, energy security and soldier safety will be discussed by leading researchers and engineers from universities, the U.S. Army, and the domestic automotive industry at the Automotive Research Center's (ARC) annual conference. Find out more > |
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04/23/2012 Michigan Engineering LabLog
By programming MABEL the robot to recover from a stumble like a person, Michigan Engineering researchers have given her the ability to step up over a stair-stepped obstacle. Find out more > |
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04/19/2012 Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute for Global Operations, a joint venture between the College of Engineering and the Ross School of Business, has won the first UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science or analytics. |
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04/11/2012 College of Engineering
Fetchnotes, a U-M student-founded startup, will launch on Friday a public version of its cloud-based system for jotting and organizing quick notes to self. The company will release a new Android, iPhone and desktop app for its system that attracted more than 3,300 users in invitation-only beta since October. Find out more > |
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04/10/2012 University Record
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) on Monday elected Kimberlee Kearfott, a professor in the College of Engineering and Medical School, to chair the university faculty governance system for the coming year. Find out more > |
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04/05/2012 College of Engineering
Robotics Day 2012 will showcase cutting-edge robotics research going on at U-M, at other Michigan universities and in government and industry. Find out more > |
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04/04/2012 College of Engineering
Robotics Day. 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., April 9, 2012: Self-driving cars, smart wheelchairs and a remote-controlled Segway that is mapping campus in four dimensions are a few of the latest robotic systems that will be discussed or demonstrated at Robotics Day 2012. Find out more > |
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04/03/2012 College of Engineering
Making computer programming faster, easier and more intuitive is the goal of a new $10 million National Science Foundation project that involves a Michigan Engineering researcher and is based at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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03/30/2012 College of Engineering
In a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse. |
03/20/2012 Aerospace Engineering
In a trip organized by U-M alumni, 16 aerospace engineering students embarked on an epic journey around Southern California to tour some of the most impressive aerospace facilities in the world. Find out more > |
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03/16/2012 Life@Michigan
Tornado warnings sounded while over 40 middle school students from Michigan Technical Academy were visiting. They took shelter along with Dean Munson. Find out more > |
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03/13/2012 University Record
On March 27 at 4 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre, Yoram Koren, the James J. Duderstadt Distinguished University Professor of Manufacturing and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will deliver his inaugural lecture as a DUP, with a reception following. The title of his talk is On Dreams and Timing. Find out more > |
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03/13/2012 Michigan Engineering LabLog
A composer and NASA fellow at Michigan Engineering is turning satellite measurements into sound as a new data mining approach. Here's a demonstration. Find out more > |
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03/13/2012 Michigan Daily
James Duderstadt, Elliot Soloway and others discuss the strong history of the U-M investment in technology, the priority placed on innovation and the technological and entrepreneurial successes that have emerged as a result. Find out more > |
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03/13/2012 Life@Michigan
From Mercury to near Earth, researchers at U-M have three pieces of equipment that have been tracking the largest space storm during this solar cycle. Find out more > |
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03/12/2012 College of Engineering
Nerve gases are colorless, odorless, tasteless and deadly. While soldiers carry masks and other protective gear, they do not have reliable ways of knowing when they need them in time. That could change, thanks to a new litmus-like paper sensor made at U-M. Find out more > |
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03/08/2012 College of Engineering
A year after the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, according to U-M nuclear waste expert Rodney Ewing (NERS) and his colleagues. Find out more > |
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03/06/2012 College of Engineering
As the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan approaches, nuclear experts from the Michigan Engineering Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences program (ranked first in the nation) are available to discuss its aftermath and how it might inform the future of the field in the United States and abroad. Find out more > |
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03/05/2012 University Record
Susan Montgomery (CHE) and two other U-M lecturers have been honored for outstanding contributions to instruction as 2012 recipients of the Collegiate Lecturer Program. The appointments are titles the three will retain throughout their careers at the university. Find out more > |
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03/05/2012 College of Engineering
New findings by University of Michigan researchers overturn the previous understanding of how light and sound interact in the process called Brillouin scattering. |
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03/03/2012 College of Engineering
Computational sprinting is a groundbreaking new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications and make new ones possible. Find out more > |
