Author: Kate McAlpine
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What industry wants: model-based systems engineering
A course takes students from customer concept to design or prototype inside two semesters, often mentored by engineers at big name corporate sponsors.
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Magnetic switch traps quantum information carriers in one dimension
Innovations in quantum sensing and computing could follow the discovery of how chromium sulfide bromide responds to magnetic fields.
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Two Michigan Engineering researchers named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Early-career computer engineers honored for their work on graph network algorithms and machine perception.
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Bridging gaps in rural health care with AI-powered mobile clinics
General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.
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Mammal-like tails most promising for acrobatic robots
Roboticists have preferred the simplicity of lizard-like tails, but mammal-style tails may be both lighter and higher performance for turning a robot’s body in space.
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AI, computation and scientific discovery: A Q&A with Karthik Duraisamy
The director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering discusses the institute’s past and future.
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Light, flexible and radiation-resistant: organic solar cells for space
Some carbon-based solar cells already show no drop in performance after three years’ worth of radiation, and the cause of degradation in others could be preventable.
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Twisted Edison: bright, elliptically polarized incandescent light
Filaments curling at the micro- and nanoscale produce light waves that twirl as they travel.
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Toward quantum for the real world: photonic team in running for center-level funding
A team led by the University of Michigan aims to bring the extraordinary accuracy of quantum laboratory measurements to real-world devices.
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Diversifying robotics with a one-of-a-kind collaborative teaching model
Toyota Research Institute and Amazon help fund the hybrid program that partners with Minority-Serving Institutions.
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It’s all on the table
Can engineers piece together a carbon-neutral aviation system by 2050?
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Space Force establishes $35M institute for versatile propulsion and power at U-M
To optimize power, efficiency and freedom to maneuver, engineers aim to demonstrate new technologies for power generation, electric propulsion and chemical rockets.