Category: EECS: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Alum Paul Debevec honored with Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award for inventing a new kind of movie magic
Debevec’s groundbreaking imaging work revolutionized the film and television industry, helping create the special effects seen in Spider-Man 2, Avatar, The Hobbit, Blade Runner 2049, Gravity, The Mandalorian, and many more.
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The key to superior teaching performance in engineering
Get tips that will help you improve your teaching and connection with engineering students – from renowned educator Fawwaz Ulaby
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Kamal Rudra receives IEEE EDS Masters Student Fellowship
Rudra works in the area of solid-state and nanotechnology, and has managed to acquire a broad range of experience in different research settings
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Senior hires stand out in an impressive year for faculty hiring
The cohort of 36 new tenured and tenure-track faculty includes 11 faculty hired at the rank of professor or associate professor.
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Kaleo Roberts receives AISES scholarship for research on monitoring corn fields using remote sensing
Roberts’ work could help improve the management of corn fields, which is important for food production, biofuel, and industry raw material.
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Yakshita Malhotra honored for micro-LED research that could define the future of automotive displays
Malhotra’s work on micro-LEDs could lead to more efficient, higher resolution automotive displays capable of supporting augmented reality applications.
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Breakthrough in green micro-LEDs for augmented/mixed reality devices
Prof. Zetian Mi’s team are the first to achieve high-performance, highly stable green micro-LEDs with dimensions less than 1 micrometer on silicon, which can support ultrahigh-resolution full-color displays and other applications.
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Seeing electron movement at fastest speed ever could help unlock next-level quantum computing
New technique could enable processing speeds a million to a billion times faster than today’s computers and spur progress in many-body physics.
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CHIPS and Science Act: Implications and opportunities
The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 promises to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. Dennis Sylvester offers his perspective on what it means for ECE.
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U-M discovery leading to LASIK is a Golden Goose
The AAAS Golden Goose awards highlight federally funded breakthroughs that go on to bring important benefits to the lives of regular people.
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First light at the most powerful laser in the US
The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has begun its commissioning experiments
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Walking and slithering aren’t as different as you think
New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.