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Unbreakable bonds
The properties of PFAS are so great that we have used these chemicals widely—so widely that now they contaminate our water, our air, our land and our bodies. What can we do about it? Engineers have some ideas, although it’s not going to be easy.
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Optimization could cut the carbon footprint of AI training by up to 75%
Deep learning models that power giants like TikTok and Amazon, as well as tools like ChatGPT, could save energy without new hardware or infrastructure.
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M.A.R.S. Dialogues explore the ethics underpinning aerospace today and a spacefaring future
Students, faculty and staff discuss aerospace culture and challenge narratives that are often assumed to be true.
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Awards honor staff contributions to Michigan Engineering
2023 winners exemplify the vital contributions of staff that make Michigan Engineering one of the nation’s top engineering schools.
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Gulf offshore oil and gas production has double the climate impact as inventories report
High methane emissions from shallow water platforms underlie the problem.
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Record number of NSF CAREER awards received
Sustainable fuels, democratized programming tools, and Internet censorship countermeasures are a few of the projects’ broad potential impacts.
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Wastewater dashboard adds monkeypox, flu and more for five southeast Michigan communities
The results of monitoring for diseases beyond COVID-19 are now publicly available for Ann Arbor, Flint, Jackson, Tecumseh and Ypsilanti.
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Simulated terrible drivers cut the time and cost of AV testing by a factor of one thousand
New virtual testing environment breaks the ‘curse of rarity’ for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making.
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New kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones
Integrating a new ferroelectric semiconductor, it paves the way for single amplifiers that can do the work of multiple conventional amplifiers, among other possibilities.
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For the first time, controlling the degree of twist in nanostructure particles
Being able to decide not only whether a micron-scale particle twists but also how much could open new avenues for machine vision and more.