Category: Campus & Community
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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.
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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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Lessons from a female pioneer
The privilege of hearing first-hand the journey of a true Michigan “Hidden Figure” – a female pioneer in physics and space sciences.