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“Rediscovered” engine for more efficient power plants
U-M led research on the rotating detonation engine in the 1960s–then the US abandoned the design. Now it returns.
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Ship shape: the design that shook the world
The bulbous bow, the punched card, and a new direction in ship design.
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U-M’s Dawn Tilbury to head NSF Engineering Directorate
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a University of Michigan mechanical engineering professor Dawn Tilbury to serve as head of its Directorate for Engineering.
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Transparent Silver: Tarnish-proof films for flexible displays, touch screens, metamaterials
A little silver goes a long way to improving touchscreens, displays, and much more
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Regenerative med center groups top-ranked U-M areas
A new $11.7 million center at the University of Michigan aims to advance regenerative medicine to restore patients’ lost dental, facial and skull tissue.
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Courage to Resist
In the escalating struggle between the individual and the state, technology favors the powerful. That’s why this Michigan computer scientist and his team of researchers revel in righting the balance.
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Twisted semiconductors for future moving holograms
Holographic displays need twisted light. Twisted semiconductors assembled with the help of amino acids may enable them.
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Michigan Engineering efforts continue rankings progress
The 2018 U.S. News & World Report Graduate School Rankings moved Michigan Engineering up another spot to No. 5 in the nation.
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Keeping drugs on the job
Computer simulations developed at the University of Michigan reveal how well drug additives stop the active ingredients from crystallizing in the digestive tract.
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Ultrashort light pulses for fast “lightwave” computers
Extremely short, configurable “femtosecond” pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today’s electronics.