Month: September 2024
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Unlocking ocean power: $3.6M for community-centric wave energy converters
Wave energy could power millions of homes, but to make a splash in the industry, the tech must balance engineering, socio-economic and environmental trade-offs.
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More efficient, effective metal 3D printing technique invented at U-M now commercially available
Dyndrite LPBF Pro 3D printing software now supports software from U-M startup Ulendo, which helps ensure metal components that match their intended design.
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Born to warm: Grace Hsia Haberl and Warmilu
Travel to Kenya with Grace Hsia Haberl (BSE MSE ‘12, MsE ‘13), co-founder and CEO of Warmilu, as she shares her University of Michigan-born non-electric infant warming blankets with hospitals, mothers and officials across the country. Called Incu-Blankets, the devices have warmed tens of thousands of babies in 23 countries.
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Warmed by science. Powered by love.
12 years and thousands of miles later, Grace Hsia Haberl’s student project is still changing the world—one preemie at a time.
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Twelve NSF CAREER awards received by early-career engineers
The five-year grants will support projects including energy-saving algorithms, underwater robot navigation and flexible wearable electronics.
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‘You all are going to create things that astonish us’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to University of Michigan students about the future of AI and its implications for education and industry.
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Electric vehicle lessons cruise into Michigan classrooms
New curriculum in U-M professor’s digital education platform introduces K-8 students throughout Michigan to jobs in one of the state’s emerging industries.
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Versatile knee exo for safer lifting
Helping out the quad muscles kept study participants lifting safely despite fatigue, with an algorithm that smoothly shifts between lifting and carrying tasks.
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An OLED for compact, lightweight night vision
Thinner than a human hair, the device amplifies and converts near infrared light into visible light with the potential for low power consumption and long battery life.
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Auto plants grew their workforces after transitioning to electric vehicle production
Data suggests the switch to EVs may not mean the loss of assembly jobs some predicted.
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In step toward solar fuels, durable artificial photosynthesis setup chains two carbons together
The system produces ethylene, an important ingredient of many plastics, with much higher efficiency, yield and longevity than competing systems.
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This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin.