Category: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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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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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.
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Engineering Events: Earth Day at 50
Michigan Engineering faculty are hosting teach-ins on a range of Earth Year topics.
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Non-thermal plasma can inactivate airborne viral threat to pigs
Performance is a step toward protection from viruses that infect humans
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NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
Using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, researchers found connections between the population density of cities and how much carbon dioxide they produce per person.
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Give Earth [another] chance
50 years after the first Earth Day, the next generation is rewriting the rules.
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Optimizing comfort for nurses in high-stress situations with sensors
Wearable sensors help pinpoint stressful moments during medical procedures.