Category: Features
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Engineers are made on student teams
How student teams turn concrete, lumber and grit into more than the sum of their parts.
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When climate change hits home
How an organization led by U-M is helping small-town America plan for a warming world.
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The box that rocked the universe
Meet the U-M researcher who helped pioneer the CubeSat—and a new era in space exploration.
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This bot’s got game
Building a ball-chucking, bar-climbing, battle-ready robot in 72 hours.
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Engineering tough
Michigan engineering alum Linda Zhang has the daunting task of bringing America’s bestselling vehicle into the electric age.
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Remodeling the construction industry
Could human-robot collaboration revitalize an outmoded business model and attract new workers?
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Answers Inc. – A brief history of U-M’s Space Physics Research Laboratory
For 75 years, SPRL has sent instruments skyward to help us better understand Earth, space, our sun and more.
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Her fight for your rights
Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.
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Prepping for the revolution
University of Michigan engineers are working to make our electrified future more equitable and avoid the mistakes of the past.
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How to make the robot revolution serve the people
In the midst of outfitting a new building, Michigan roboticists shape a world where robots empower, instead of imperil, our humanity.
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The Future of Lasers
Story by Colin Barras
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A face that looks like mine
Engineering is a field that remains stubbornly white and male. NextProf is designed to change that.