Category: Campus & Community
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Unicorn vs. cyber-pirates
Duo Security is the Ann Arbor-based information security and software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that alumni Dug Song and Jon Oberheide co-founded. It recently reached $1 billion in valuation—a unicorn, in tech parlance.
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On strategy: Questions for the Leadership Advisory Board
The Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) exists to provide strategic insight, guidance and assistance to Alec Gallimore, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, to execute the College’s vision and mission.
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Novel approach
ME alumnus Karl Iagnemma published “On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction,” a collection of short stories, in 2003 and “The Expeditions,” a novel, in 2007.
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Creating better engineers
Why do smart students fail and how do social systems influence their success? Understanding mentorship and community to create engineers.
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A warm welcome to EnginTalks
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Student Advisory Board member and computer science BSE Jumanah Colvin discusses the first event in the new EnginTalks series.
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Sara Pozzi featured in nuclear nonproliferation podcast
Listen to Sara Pozzi and colleagues at Oregon State discuss nuclear nonproliferation today and technologies on the horizon.
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Fred B. Pelham: building bridges
The first African-American Michigan engineering graduate established a sturdy reputation for designs that last.
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Q&A with Samuel Ting
Samuel C.C. Ting received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the principal investigator for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment on the International Space Station, a $2 billion project installed in 2011. Here, Ting (BS ’59 Eng Phys, Eng Math, MS ’60 LSA, PhD ’62 LSA)…
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Chukwuka Mbagwu: Doing it all
Pilot, engineer and rocket scientist Chukwuka Mbagwu goes above and beyond.
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Student Advisory Board launches
New board amplifies students’ voice on DEI and campus climate.
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Learning to work like engineers
While the task is simple — build a device to sort balls by color — the lessons go much deeper.
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Engineering students, teen create tech for the blind
A 17-year-old Ypsilanti high school student who is visually impaired worked with a software engineering class to develop technology that could make life easier for the blind.