Category: History
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Claude Shannon: information icon
Early theoretical solutions led to practical applications that continue to power our digital world.
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Walter Lay: Automotive engineering pioneer
The Michigan program in automotive studies rose alongside and in cooperation with nearby Detroit automakers.
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Early innovators: Biomedical engineering upstarts
Research spawns companies that forge advancements in numerous fields.
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Early and often: Biomedical engineering rises
Naturally evolving collaborations and adept leaders combine to forge early breakthroughs
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The Michigan-Coulter partnership: Accelerating translation
A pivotal program catapults promising biomedical technologies from lab to marketplace.
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LASIK: The bladeless scalpel
Accidental discovery leads to bladeless version of popular permanent vision correction surgery.
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Michigan Engineers: Elite Astronaut Corps
Of the relatively few astronauts in the history of the world, more than our fair share have been Michigan Engineers.
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Wood walks to work: The one who stayed
Going broke in Detroit may have been the best thing that ever happened to DeVolson Wood – and Michigan Engineering.
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Kicking the hornet’s nest: the Kirkendall Effect
A 23 year-old Michigan Engineering graduate student turned metallurgy upside down.
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Beyster Collections showcase a lifetime of ideas from U-M alum
Three permanent exhibits on U-M’s North Campus pay tribute to the achievements of Michigan Engineer J. Robert Beyster
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Aero Throwback: Better ways to get to a football game
The early days of Michigan’s flying clubs are full of adventure, mishaps and tenacity.
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Quarterdeck Society: afloat since 1905
The Indoor Yacht Club gets a new name…and endures.