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BLUElab in Jamaica [Video] 10/21 U-M News Service

Making a difference: BLUElab in Jamaica

Michigan Engineering students lead several initiatives for sustainable development in Jamaica through BLUE Lab project. (BLUE Lab stands for Better Living for Engineering Lab.)

Social Entrepreneurship 03:30 | Watch (external link)
Bill Joy [Video] 10/15 College of Engineering

VIDEO: Bill Joy presenting the 2009 Goff Smith Lecture

The 2009 Goff Smith Lecture was presented by Bill Joy in the Stamps Auditorium on North Campus on October 15.

Goff Smith Lecture 1 hour | Watch (external link)
Engineering Workforce Summit [Video] 10/12 U-M News Service

Assuring Michigan's Workforce

Michigan Engineering is organizing the Diversity Summit to discuss how Michigan universities can create engineers who are better prepared to face the global challenges of the 21st century.

02:27 | Watch (external link)
Marissa Mayer [Video] 10/05 College of Engineering

VIDEO: Marissa Mayer presenting the 2009 Mellor Lecture

Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, presenting the 2009 Mellor Lecture, Stamps Auditorium, September 21, 2009.

Mellor Lecture 76:48 | Watch (external link)
Solar Car Infinium [Video] 09/30 U-M News Service

Sunny outlook: U-M's 2009 Solar Car Team

U-M Solar Car Team showcases Infinium in preparation for the World Solar Car Challenge in Australia.

Solar Car,  Student projects 4:01 | Watch (external link)
NanoFET video image [Video] 09/22 U-M News Service

NanoFET: Students design electrostatic thruster

A new electrostatic thruster technology is being developed at U-M. The technology, known as a Nanoparticle Field Extraction Thruster (or NanoFET), can be developed to do a number of things but one of the main goals is to use it to propel small satellites.

NanoFET,  Student projects 3:49 | Watch (external link)
Student Teams [Video] 09/22 U-M News Service

Student Teams

Student teams are an important part of the Michigan Engineering experience. There are a wide variety of choices, so find one that interests you and get involved!

Student projects 5:05 | Watch (external link)
Formula SAE racecar [Video] 08/04 College of Engineering

U-M race car team competes in Germany

Students on the University of Michigan's Formula SAE racing team travel to Germany for a major competition Aug. 5-9.

Formula SAE 3:31 | Watch (external link)
[Podcast] 07/22 College of Engineering

The legacy of Apollo 11

Forty years after the first lunar landing, astronaut and associate dean in the College of Engineering Tony England discusses the significance of Apollo 11 and the future of U.S. space travel and science.

4:29 | Listen (external link)
Campaign thank you [Video] 07/09 College of Engineering

Thank You for Supporting Progress and Promise: 150th Anniversary Campaign

Andrew Humphrey, Michigan Engineering alumnus and WDIV-TV meteorologist and journalist, shares the impact of the campaign in this three-minute video.

Campaign 3:00 | Watch (external link)
Detecting suicide bombers image [Video] 06/24 U-M News Service

Detecting suicide bombers

Engineering undergraduates developed a wireless network of portable, hand-held sensors that could be hidden around an environment to detect improvised explosive devices, weapons often used by suicide bombers.

Student projects 3:40 | Watch (external link)
Drew Leahy, with student business MyBandstock [Video] 06/22 College of Engineering

TechArb student business incubator

With help from the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship and RPM Ventures, a group of students has started a small-business incubator in the basement of an Ann Arbor building.

Entrepreneurship 4:17 | Watch (external link)
Alec Gallimore [Video] 06/21 Michigan Today

Quick Classroom: What is plasma?

Aerospace Engineering Professor Alec Gallimore describes the fourth state of matter and explains how it can help us explore the universe.

3:06 | Watch (external link)
Student entrepreneurs [Video] 06/03 College of Engineering

Student entrepreneurs

Neurophysiology for high school students. Crowdsourcing for product development. Socially-conscious t-shirts. These are three student business ideas getting started in Ann Arbor with help from the College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship 04:39 | Watch (external link)
Mechanical Engineering Professor Dennis Assanis [Video] 05/12 College of Engineering

Reinventing the automobile

General Motors and the University of Michigan have formed the GM/U-M Institute of Automotive Research and Education, with a strategic focus on reinventing the automobile and developing the next generation of high-efficiency vehicles powered by diverse energy sources.

Automotive Research 3:28 | Watch (external link)
Larry Page at commencement 2009 [Video] 05/04 U-M News Service

Larry Page address at 2009 U-M Spring Commencement

Google Co-founder and President for Products Larry Page was main speaker at the University of Michigan 2009 Spring Commencement.

Graduation 16:47 | Watch (external link)
Surgical lamp detail [Video] 04/30 College of Engineering

U-M students design a low-cost surgical lamp

Engineering students have developed a low-cost, battery-powered surgical lamp to be used in developing nations where electricity isn't reliable. Earlier this month, the members of Michigan Health Engineered for All Lives, or M-HEAL, sent their prototype lamp to Uganda where it will undergo testing.

M-HEAL,  Social Entrepreneurship,  Student projects 4:10 | Watch (external link)
Selfhealing Concrete [Video] 04/21 U-M News Service

Self-healing concrete

A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary--just water and carbon dioxide.

Safe bridges, roads, buildings,  Self-healing Concrete 04:43 | Watch (external link)
Bendable Concrete [Video] 04/20 U-M News Service

Bendable self-healing concrete

Watch professor Victor Li's bendable self-healing concrete in action. A researcher shows how this material compares with regular concrete.

Safe bridges, roads, buildings,  Self-healing Concrete 01:30 | Watch (external link)
Thumping Threads Competition Presentation [Video] 04/18 WDIV

Making a difference: Deaf artists share music

U-M students are inventing new ways to experience music, helping people who are hard-of-hearing or deaf. This news coverage was a follow-up to the "Feel the Music" competition at U-M.

Entrepreneurship 01:38 | Watch (external link)
Engineering social change [Video] 04/14 College of Engineering

Engineering social change

Michigan Engineering students make a difference right now and for the future, locally and around the world. Associate Professor Steve Skerlos sums it up by saying, "Engineers have the problem-solving skills that society really needs." Students are applying those skills to create innovative solutions for people and communities who need them.

Student projects 04:40 | Watch (external link)
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman [Video] 03/25 University Research Corridor

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman video: What Michigan needs to compete

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman at the State Capitol discussing what Michigan needs to compete. She discusses the work of Professor Ann Marie Sastry on plug-in electric car batteries.

Plug-in Electric Cars 04:57 | Watch (external link)
Clean Energy Prize Video [Video] 03/18 U-M News Service

Watch the clean energy entrepreneurship video

U-M student finalists for the Clean Energy Prize talk about their ideas for businesses that could help save the planet, and how this contest and other University resources have helped them advance their innovations.

Entrepreneurship Watch (external link)
Dean's Seminar Series: Malkin [Video] 03/11 College of Engineering

Dean's Seminar Series: The Role of Engineering in Developing World Healthcare

Featured Speakers Watch (external link)
[Podcast] 03/05 College of Engineering

Greener computer data centers

By 2011, the nation's computer data centers will consume more power than 8 million average U.S. households. A new strategy cuts down on their energy waste by putting servers to sleep when they're not in use.

Energy,  Green computing,  PowerNap 5:48 | Listen (external link)
Building Model [Video] 02/26 College of Engineering

Bracing buildings for earthquakes

Engineers at the University of Michigan simulated an off-the-charts earthquake in a laboratory in December to test the strength of their new technique for bracing high-rise buildings.

Safe bridges, roads, buildings 3:48 | Watch (external link)
Hercules Petawatt Laser [Video] 02/17 Engineering TV

Hercules Petawatt Laser

Engineering TV visited The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan to take a closer look at HERCULES, a high-field petawatt class laser. The beam measures 20 billion trillion watts per square centimeter, contains 300 terawatts of power (300 times the capacity of the entire U.S. electricity grid), and is capable of producing this intense beam once every 10 seconds.

Watch (external link)
Professor Elliot Soloway screen capture from Mobile Learning Institute video [Video] 02/11 The Mobile Learning Institute

Educating the mobile generation

In this film produced by the Mobile Learning Institute, professors Elliot Soloway and Cathie Norris take a road trip through Texas and Louisiana to see first hand how mobile devices, including their own technologies, are being used in schools.

Educational technology Watch (external link)
Anna Michalak explains her carbon research [Video] 02/11 College of Engineering

Finding the missing carbon

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences assistant professor Anna Michalak explains her work solving the mystery of the missing carbon. This could lead to better predictions of future climate change.

Climate Change 3:59 | Watch (external link)
Soloway demonstrates cell phones as computers [Video] 02/09 College of Engineering

Cell phones as classroom computers

Professor Elliot Soloway has developed software for cell phones that allows them to be used in classrooms, giving each student his own computer. He says this could revolutionize education.

Educational technology 4:10 | Watch (external link)
GM CEO Rick Wagoner [Video] 01/12 Detroit Free Press

GM announces battery technology

At the 2009 North American International Auto Show, GM CEO Rick Wagoner lays out the company's plans for manufacturing batteries for the Chevy Volt in Michigan. He also mentions the new advanced battery research lab the company is funding at U-M's College of Engineering.

Energy,  Plug-in Electric Cars 2:14 | Watch (external link)
Ashwin Lalendran discusses the 1,000 Pitches contest [Video] 12/10 College of Engineering

1,000 Pitches entrepreneurship contest

The 1,000 Pitches business plan competition gathered 1,044 pitches across campus, demonstrating that even in this economy, good ideas are proliferating.

Entrepreneurship Watch (external link)
[Video] 12/04 Concentrate

Aernnova lands in Ann Arbor

Think of U-M's Business Engagement Center (BEC) as the welcome mat for high tech companies to move to Ann Arbor. By providing a pipeline of cutting edge talent, offering technological collaboration and making available educational opportunities for employees, the BEC opens the door to industries Michigan needs to transform its economy. Case in point: Aernnova, a spanish aerospace engineering firm that just planted its North American roots in Tree Town.

Watch (external link)
Dean's Seminar Series: Johnson lecture image [Video] 11/20 College of Engineering

Dean's Seminar Series: Threads, strokes, and other numbers, Engineering image analysis of paintings

Presented by C. Richard (Rick) Johnson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.

Featured Speakers 59:27 | Watch (external link)
Prof. Michael Bernitsas discusses VIVACE [Video] 11/18 College of Engineering

A new renewable energy concept

A device called VIVACE developed at the University of Michigan draws power out of slow water currents to produce clean electricity. It imitates the swim strategy of a school of fish.

VIVACE Hydro Energy 4:01 | Watch (external link)
Endurance in flight [Video] 11/10 College of Engineering

10-hour fuel cell Endurance record-breaking flight

This video features 'Endurance', the SolarBubbles team plane, making its record-breaking flight. The plane was built by a group of students and the fuel cells were manufactured by Adaptive Materials Inc.

Solar Bubbles 3:00 | Watch (external link)
[Video] 10/31 College of Engineering

Entrepreneurship Hour: Ellen Levy (BS LSA '90), Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy, LinkedIn

Entrepreneurship Watch (external link)
Dean's Seminar Series: Langer [Video] 10/06 College of Engineering

Dean's Seminar Series: Creating and implementing breakthrough medical technology

Presented by Dr. Robert Langer, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on October 6. Several different case studies in the areas of drug delivery, medical devices and biotherapeutics were discussed.

Featured Speakers 56:00 | Watch (external link)
Shane and Shawn Ward at Entrepreneurship Hour [Video] 10/03 College of Engineering

Entrepreneurship Hour: Shane & Shawn Ward, co-founders, Detny Footwear, Inc.

U-M alums Shane and Shawn Ward talk about their experiences at the Entrepreneurship Hour during Michigan Engineering Homecoming Weekend.

Entrepreneurship 53:09 | Watch (external link)
[Video] 09/01 College of Engineering

Hydraulic hybrid bike

Watch (external link)
[Podcast] 08/04 College of Engineering

Cell phones as computers in the classroom

Elliot Soloway has developed educational software for cell phones that allows them to be used in the classroom as personal computers. He discusses technology in the classroom.

Educational technology Listen (external link)
Solar Car [Video] 07/22 North American Solar Challenge

Continuum passing through Calera, Oklahoma

Video of the solar car team passing through Calera, Oklahoma during the North American Solar Challenge 2008.

Solar Car 1:23 | Watch (external link)
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