Category: Aerospace Engineering
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Two U-M engineering professors elected into National Academy of Engineering
University of Michigan Engineering now includes 34 NAE members among its active and emeritus faculty.
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Cars and planes could avoid hazardous ice and freezing rain with new sensors
Drivers can lose control when they hit invisible black ice, and freezing rain can lead to plane crashes. This pair of sensors could help avert disaster.
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Zurbuchen, formerly of U-M, NASA, honored by Center for Entrepreneurship
Honors recognize a career spent combining innovations and entrepreneurship.
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Large language models and research progress: A Q&A with Ricardo Vinuesa
Guidelines for responsible LLM use to help, not hinder, research progress.
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AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem
Explainable AI helps find key drivers of turbulence, offering new insights that could improve flight safety and industrial efficiency.
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Launching the world’s largest space telescope
Robby Swoish (BS AERO ’06, MS CLaSP ’07) helped deploy the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Laser links to bolster the next generation of satellite constellations
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research provides $2M to help satellites in orbit distribute critical resources with laser light.
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First Alumna in Space
Aisha Bowe (BSE Aero ’08, MSE SED ’09) took flight in a Blue Origin rocket.
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$19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
U-Michigan leads new DOE-funded computational center focused on next-generation hypersonic flight.
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Solving a moon mystery helps game out future landings
U-M, Johns Hopkins partnership explains a consistent pattern in the dust under moon landings.
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New air mobility corridor to advance eVTOLs and beyond-line-of-sight UAVs
The newly designated airspace links U-M’s autonomy testbed with Detroit’s innovation district.
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Conference: Scientific discovery in the age of AI
Experts from academia, industry and government discussed the growing utility of generative AI in science and what’s coming next.