The Michigan Engineer News Center

COVID-19: Research and Resources

Keep up with the U-M community as it reacts and responds to COVID-19. | Short Read

For necessary eye exams, a new breath shield protects patients and doctors

Close proximity eye exams will need to continue during lockdown, calling for increased safety. | Medium Read

A sewage surveillance effort to track COVID-19

We don't know much about how coronaviruses move through the environment. U-M and Stanford engineers aim to change that. | Medium Read

Videos

Continuing research in the face of COVID-19 and coronavirus

Optimizing comfort for nurses in high-stress situations with sensors

Ultra-precise, mind-controlled prosthetic hand for amputees via RPNI neural interface

‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings

NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission. | Medium Read

Logistics during COVID-19: Researcher creates an operations model cheat sheet | Medium Read

Big data, small footprint | Medium Read

Designing lightweight glass for efficient cars and wind turbines | Medium Read

Campus & Community

Russel Lecture: Fighting climate change with organic electronics

The researcher-entrepreneur who helped bring OLED displays to the masses envisions a future of efficient lighting and next-gen solar power. | Medium Read

Grad students coping under COVID-19 | Short Read

Doing science at a social distance | Short Read

Engineering Events: Earth Day at 50 | Medium Read

Faculty Perspectives

Perspective: We’ll get through this together

In a letter to the College of Engineering, Dean Gallimore champions the community's leadership and compassion as students, faculty and staff take on COVID-19. | Short Read

Medical supply chains are fragile in the best of times and COVID-19 will test their strength | Short Read

Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to ‘see’ nonexistent obstacles | Short Read

The coronavirus and class broadcasts | Short Read

Give Earth [another] chance

Features

Submerged

When a Soviet nuclear submarine went missing during the Cold War, the United States launched a secret CIA operation to recover it. As alumni on the mission explain, the engineering challenges almost seemed impossible.