Category: Alumni
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New program to combine STEM education with financial literacy and travel, starting in elementary school
Adding life skills to education in science, technology, engineering and math sets students up for success, through a partnership led and funded by a Michigan Engineering alum.
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A chat with CEE’s first Smart Infrastructure Finance alumni
Smart Infrastructure Finance studies how data can be integrated with financial practices to develop previously unachievable infrastructure assets and reach sustainability goals.
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A solid foundation: Alumni reflections
As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, alum Luis B. Fargier-Gabaldón (PhD Civil Engineering, 2005) reflects on his time in the department and how it impacted his career.
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Annie Kritcher leads revolutionary nuclear fusion experiment
The NERS alum and her team at LLNL came close to reproducing the power of the sun on earth.
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Remembering H. Scott Fogler, 1939-2021
He changed the chemical engineering profession as a researcher, scholar, author, and, most importantly, a skilled and accomplished educator.
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ECE alum Linda Guillory breaks two world records for vintage video game collections
Guillory, an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments, shares her memories of U-M and how her love of fixing broken video games helped her become a world-renowned gaming collector.
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Apollo 15 at 50: A celebration of the all-Michigan crew’s mission and the future of space exploration
July 30 virtual event highlights future lunar and deep space missions, the technologies to get there, and U-M’s research contributions to space exploration.
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Apollo 15 — 50th anniversary
The all U-M crew was the U.S. Apollo program’s fourth lunar landing, and the first to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
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FXB Fellow Davoudi’s PhD research could enhance autonomous operation of urban delivery drones
The highly coveted FXB Fellowship is given to exceptional Aerospace Engineering PhD students to support their research on the analysis and design of flight vehicles. Meet recent graduate and FXB Fellow Behdad Davoudi.
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Michigan alumnus Wu set to lead Taiwan’s space R&D efforts
His top priority is to design and manufacture Taiwan’s own satellites and rockets.
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Deltek’s Senior Director Shirin Mangold found her passion and her voice through Michigan Engineering’s Co-op program
The Engineering Cooperative Education Program introduced Mangold to life as a working engineer and inspired her to pursue a career in software engineering.
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ECE alum and entrepreneur Fred Gibbons teaches engineers to make products that people need
From growing up in a small East Coast fishing village to becoming lifelong friends with Steve Jobs, Stanford Professor Fred Gibbons shares his journey as a first-generation college student and what inspired him to teach product management and design.