Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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The grocers | T-minus 29 days
Hungry for din, and even more for the win
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Hurricane Irma: Engineering researchers involved in forecasts and more
Michigan Engineering professors offer insights into the storm and discuss the ways in which they’re tracking it.
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Arrival | T-minus 36 days
EXPERTS: The 2017 Novum race crew has arrived in Adelaide, Australia. We are excited to get back to work – this time at the nearby Parafield Airport. Neighboring historical fighter-jets, hangar 107 houses our workspace for the next few weeks – a cool substitute for our familiar home in the Wilson Center on North Campus.…
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Shipping Novum
An all-nighter, the ultimate checklist and a dash to the airport. Shipping a solar car is so much more complicated than you could imagine.
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In the wind tunnel
Novum goes in, valuable strategic data comes out.
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Don’t touch the array
Breaking a six-year stretch of using silicon solar cells, Novum is crowned with the most efficient multijunction gallium arsenide cells in team history.
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Better ingredients. Better performance.
In many ways, Novum is a product of team firsts. On the surface, its caliber of multijunction gallium arsenide solar cells and small array set it apart from anything they’ve ever built. But what’s beneath the surface is equally innovative.
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Antarctic iceberg: Researchers explain what might happen next
An iceberg the size of Delaware detached from an ice shelf in the Southern Ocean.
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Overview: Solar Car Team goes small to win big at World Solar Challenge
Meet Novum: a long, skinny, single-fairing solar car
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Solar Car virtual garage
Explore and compare the various U-M solar car designs.
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Airborne nuclear tests can mimic solar storms
Humans can influence space weather.
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New U-M Robotics Building named in honor of Ford Motor Company gift
The gift will accelerate construction.