Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Improving construction worker safety with wearable sensors
Wearables track heart rate, fatigue and stress.
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Caution and connection in in-person classes during COVID-19
Faculty members and students share their perspectives.
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Treating PFAS water contamination with cold plasma
University of Michigan researchers are developing better plasma technology that can destroy PFAS compounds
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The secret math of the Amazon
CEE professor Valeriy Ivanov works to unravel the mysteries of the world’s last great forest.
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Wireless sensors for N95 masks could enable easier, more accurate decontamination
“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”
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Turning faces into thermostats
An autonomous HVAC system could provide more comfort with less energy.
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Integrated 3-D visual models to help communities prep for natural disasters
Integrated disaster modeling helps decision-makers discover which improvements will provide the most benefit per dollar spent.
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Spotlight: Data is life
Take a multimedia trip to the Amazon and meet the researchers who are working to understand how the future of the rainforest could affect us all.
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Engineers work to disinfect N95 masks for medical personnel
Virus removal approaches, mask resilience and mask fit are all being tested.
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Guidance on decontaminating face masks: U-M researchers contribute to national effort
Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.
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A sewage surveillance effort to track COVID-19
We don’t know much about how coronaviruses move through the environment. U-M and Stanford engineers aim to change that.
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Doing science at a social distance
The research part’s cancelled, but an international Arctic workshop moves online.