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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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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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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Fred B. Pelham: building bridges
The first African-American Michigan engineering graduate established a sturdy reputation for designs that last.
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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.
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G.G. Brown: Mentor and pioneer
A leader whose methods and means were ahead of their time, Brown remains a Michigan icon.
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Ed Lesher: Aircraft Hall of Famer
This aeronautics professor taught students in mid-air and flew into record books.
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The million foot view
Kamal Sarabandi has expanded radar capabilities in applications ranging from low earth orbit to thousands of feet underground.
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Aero pioneers: Computers in control
Many faculty were pioneers in the field, helping to lay the groundwork for areas such as control theory, wireless communication and traffic management.
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Rapid research funding experiment triples its money
‘MCubed’ will continue for another three-year cycle.
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Auto connect: Gasoline automobiles to Mcity
Early proximity to global auto hub leads to strong expertise and leadership that lasts to this day