Category: Industrial and Operations Engineering
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Tackling COVID-19 problems with industrial engineering
Lessons learned from optimizing retail could help optimize our COVID-19 response.
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Stronger, faster, further
Charting a path to powered exoskeletons: A Q&A with Leia Stirling
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How self-driving car subsidies could carry us through the ‘dark age’ of deployment
A game-theory approach identifies which policy could support autonomous vehicles’ market penetration—and environmental benefits
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How opt-out organ donation could affect U.S. waiting lists
A lack of consent plays a role in preventing donation from up to 40% of otherwise eligible donors.
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Talking with touch
Nadine Sarter is pioneering the use of tactile interfaces to build better conversations between machines and humans
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Building a language of touch: Nadine Sarter Q&A
How do we improve the communication and coordination between humans and machines?
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Creating better engineers
Why do smart students fail and how do social systems influence their success? Understanding mentorship and community to create engineers.
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New grad program: Engineering education research
New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond.
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How precision medicine is improving prostate cancer treatment
New, statistically-derived guidelines could potentially save millions of prostate patients from painful and invasive follow-up treatments.
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New U-M Robotics Building named in honor of Ford Motor Company gift
The gift will accelerate construction.