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Sol Lim receives Student Author Presentation Support Award at HFES annual meeting

by Rod Capps
Industrial and Operations Engineering
October 13, 2017
IOE PhD candidate Sol Lim has received the "Student Author Presentation Support Award" at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) annual meeting.| Short Read

Please join the department in congratulating Sol!

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Elizabeth Agee in the Amazon rainforest.

Hands-on in the Amazon

As the climate changes, a grad student and mom decodes the math that drives the rainforest. | Medium Read
The memristor array chip plugs into the custom computer chip, forming the first programmable memristor computer. The team demonstrated that it could run three standard types of machine learning algorithms. Photo: Robert Coelius, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing

First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud

Circuit elements that store information in their electrical resistances enable a brain-like form of computing, storing and processing information in the same place. | Medium Read
Juan Lopez wears sunglasses to protect his eyes in the lab

Immortal switches, quantum computers could stem from new semiconductor

Material’s polarity, conductivity change with temperature | Medium Read

Using autonomous drones to map methane in landfills

Killing airborne bacteria and viruses in pig barns with plasma device

Lattice cryptography: A new unbreakable code

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Research News
Linxiao Zhu, ME Research Fellow, unveils a device that enables cooling via heat transfer. Photo: Joseph Xu

Toward molecular computers: First measurement of single-molecule heat transfer

If Moore's law's endgame is really computer components made from single molecules, we're going to need to know how to cool them. | Medium Read

Sustainable biofuel: Design principles for bioengineered microbe catalysts | Medium Read

An EpiPen for spinal cord injuries | Medium Read

‘Digital alchemy’ to reverse-engineer new materials | Medium Read
Campus & Community
Electrum, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team's car that will be competing in the upcoming 2019 World Solar Challenge this fall. Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering

Under the hood of Michigan Solar Car Team’s “Electrum”

The team unveiled its fifteenth car ahead of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in October. | Medium Read

Becoming the representation she wishes she’d seen | Medium Read

An international effort launches to determine best CO2 utilization technologies | Medium Read

NSBE 45 focuses on bettering communities and networking | Medium Read
Faculty Perspectives
The summer sun rises on North Campus

Op-ed: How Michigan Engineering increased the number of women in college leadership

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Alec Gallimore outlines the long–and short–term strategies. | Medium Read

Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies | Short Read

Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes | Short Read

Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public health | Short Read
In the News
MIT Technology Review July 18, 2019
To foil hackers, this chip can change its code in the blink of an eye
EECS-CSE professor Todd Austin explains how Morpheus' rapid churning can thwart potential hackers.
The New York Times July 17, 2019
Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
Huei Peng, the Roger L McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Mcity explains some of the hurdles autonomous vehicles will need to clear in the years ahead.
The Wall Street Journal July 16, 2019
Moon-landing technology may help new transportation take flight
Ella Atkins, professor of aerospace engineering, explains how innovations during the Apollo program led to some of the most significant developments for aerospace.
In the News July 12, 2019
Harvard’s Tiny, Solar-Powered Flying Robot
EECS-CSE assistant professor Shai Revzen shares his thoughts on Harvard's flying robot and predicts the future of micro-flying air vehicles.
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