• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Engineering Research News

Engineering Research News

  • Find Stories
  • For Journalists
  • About
Researchers standing in lab coats and lab safety gear stand and observe a large machine growing nanowires.

January 4, 2023

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

Withstanding high temperatures and the light of 160 suns, a new catalyst is ten times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices of its kind.

Scalable method to manufacture thin film transistors achieves ultra-clean interface for high performance, low-voltage device operation

Scalable method to manufacture thin film transistors achieves ultra-clean interface for high performance, low-voltage device operation

January 25, 2023
Led by Prof. Becky Peterson, the research focuses on a category of materials important for low power logic operations, high pixel density screens, touch screens, and haptic displays.
Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful

Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful

January 24, 2023
It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they might power a crewed mission to Mars.
Simple neural networks outperform the state-of-the-art for controlling robotic prosthetics 

Simple neural networks outperform the state-of-the-art for controlling robotic prosthetics 

January 17, 2023
And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we're not that complicated.

RECENT Stories

Scalable method to manufacture thin film transistors achieves ultra-clean interface for high performance, low-voltage device operation

January 25, 2023
Led by Prof. Becky Peterson, the research focuses on a category of materials important for low power logic operations, high…

Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful

January 24, 2023
It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they…

Simple neural networks outperform the state-of-the-art for controlling robotic prosthetics 

January 17, 2023
And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we're not that complicated.
View more

In The News

The New York Times

September 29

Methane might be a bigger climate problem than thought, study finds
View more

CAMPUS & cOMMUNITY

Elizabeth Holm named Next Materials Science and Engineering Chair

December 23, 2022
U-M alum will return to Materials Science and Engineering January 1

Duraisamy to lead Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

December 16, 2022
“I am looking forward to working with the incredible talent we have at U-M to expand the frontiers of computational…

Remembering Huei Peng

December 5, 2022
An innovative researcher, leader and educator in vehicle controls and connected/automated vehicles.
View more

New initiatives and developments at Michigan Engineering

It’s time for engineering to be equity-centered

In an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed, Dean Gallimore says diversity, equity and inclusion should be a required part of engineering schools’ curricula.

Read op-ed
Zannatun Alim and Fabiha Khan work on their team's robot during an open house in the Michigan Engineering Zone (MEZ) in 2019. Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing

New U-M robotics undergraduate program to meet surging demand for roboticists

An inclusive-by-design degree program centers on how an embodied intelligence senses, reasons, acts and works with humans to establish a pipeline of people-first roboticists.

Read more

Robotics students standing at a desk holding a small device
Jamie Cutler stands in front of the Peach Mountain observatory on an overcast day. He's wearing a black raincoat and has short hair.
Cutler at the U-M Peach Mountain Observatory in Dexter, Mich. Cutler hopes to upgrade the facility together with NASA, which would enable them to communicate with satellites on deep space missions.

The box that rocked the universe

Hitching a ride to the stars

Meet the U-M researcher who helped pioneer the CubeSat—and a new era in space exploration.

Read story
Artist rendering of COVID-19.
Artist rendering of COVID-19. Photo: Steve Alvey/University of Michigan Engineering

COVID-19

From mask decontamination and wastewater testing to airflow modeling and creating a safer campus, Michigan Engineers are helping in the fight against COVID-19.

COVID-19
The International Space Station required 10 years and more than 30 space shuttle missions to assemble. A collaboration among five space agencies representing 15 countries, the ISS has since been home to countless medical and space science research experiments. It also has served as a destination for spacecraft designed by both governmental agencies and private space companies. (Photo courtesy of NASA)

SPACE

Michigan Engineering helped lead space discovery beyond the telescope and into its defining era. See how Michigan Engineers are continuing to protect our most precious planet while traveling across the solar system and beyond

Space
Melina Bautista, CEE Research Fellow, collects water samples from the Ann Arbor Water Treatment Plant in Ann Arbor, MI on January 17, 2019. Bautista collects the samples to determine the effectiveness of water filters that CEE Professor Lutgarde Raskin group works on.

WATER QUALITY

Clean water is a human right. See how Michigan Engineers are working to make an impact on our infrastructure to improve safety.

Water quality

Footer

  • Find Stories
  • For journalists
  • About
  • Subscribe (RSS)
  • U-M Engineering home
  • Strategic vision
  • Graduate & professional
  • Undergraduate
  • Campus news & events

© The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

Privacy Policy | Non-Discrimination Policy | Campus Safety

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube