Undergraduate Student Spotlights

Built by students and funded by student VCs, the venture marks a new model for launching ideas into ventures.

How engineers are applying their expertise for future planning.

An interdisciplinary team of faculty created a new introductory course in robotics that is designed for inclusivity by focusing on linear algebra instead of AP calculus, opening it up to freshman students with a broad mathematical background.

These students are recognized by the department for their outstanding scholarship, research, service, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Students throughout the College of Engineering are eligible for these awards; ten went to EECS students for outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service.

It was another outstanding year for the EECS honor society, that works hard to serve while having fun

WECE is a student-run, diversity-focused organization dedicated to the personal and professional growth of those committed to innovation and excellence in electrical and computer engineering fields.

Maya Pandya, an Electrical Engineering senior, is a key member of the student team working to design a new generation of CubeSats that may revolutionize how we monitor space environments and provide a new method for interplanetary communication.

Computer Engineering junior Himaja Motheram is heavily involved in campus organizations, including as Advocacy Officer for both Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Society of Women Engineers.

The award celebrates those who have gone above and beyond to service and support social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

More than 250 students had a hand in a satellite launching on January 10th, the first in space for a project to keep nanosats in orbit by harnessing Earth’s magnetic field.

In observance of the holiday that marks the end of chattel slavery, faculty, students, and alumni performed music, shared personal stories, and presented a proposal to the EECS chairs for initiatives to enhance diversity and equity and realize systemic equality in the department.

Members of our community share their stories, their fears, and their hopes for a more inclusive, just future.

EECS 373 course instructors quickly pulled together an alternative final project that had students building robots at home.

ECE graduating students reflect on their time at U-M and share their favorite memories, photos, and advice to incoming students.

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Pre-COVID-19, ECE Expeditions took thirteen students to the heart of the Big Apple to tour a variety of tech companies, including IBM.

For “exemplifying the leadership and vision of Dr. King,” three members of ECE were honored as part of U-M’s annual MLK symposium.

At the largest convention for Hispanic STEM students and professionals, U-M students attended career panels and workshops while networking with a variety of big-name companies.

ECE helped host faculty from Morehouse College and Prairie View A&M University to explore cross-collaboration opportunities, which allow students and faculty to experience the cultures of both Historically Black Colleges & Universities and U-M.

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team developed a new machine learning tool that enables large-scale testing of cancer drug effectiveness with microfluidics.

Thin film transistors stacked on top of a state-of-the-art silicon chip could help shrink electronics while improving performance.

Students toured KLA, a global capital equipment company, and Quantum Signal AI, a startup recently acquired by Ford to make robotaxis and driverless delivery vehicles a reality within two years.

Faculty, students, and staff came together in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community for the world-wide anti-bullying campaign.

CE undergrad Amulya Parmar designed a machine learning algorithm to curb fake news as part of the Tavtech Fellowship program.

For the past 31 years, Prof. Winick has helped define undergraduate courses and curriculum both at U-M and abroad while inspiring all to engineer their future by understanding the past.

From Long Beach, CA, to a Nepalese national park and world heritage site, undergrads Ashley Gee and Camille Burke came away with unforgettable experiences and a greater appreciation for how engineering can change the world for the better.

The global capital equipment company is looking to harness the engineering talent at U-M and power a brighter future with tech.

The STARX suit helps first-responders bear greater weights and spend less energy.

As an undergrad, Nooshabadi designed tiny transmitters with big potential and received fellowships from the Department of Defense and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

U-M’s amateur radio club, headquartered in ECE, offers engineering challenges and a chance to network with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and strangers both on the other side of the world and those orbiting it.

This summer, Michigan Electric Racing will race their first all-electric car in Formula-style competitions they plan to win.

At this year’s convention for the National Society of Black Engineers, U-M professors, students, and alums came together with the other attendees to share experiences, offer career advice, and explore how to improve society.

The Optics Society at U-M hosted an Industry Spotlight event, which brought academia, industry, and community together to celebrate all things optics and photonics.

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Gehner’s academic career includes advancing power electronics and crafting new extraterrestrial vehicles for MRover. She received the IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship for her promising future in power and energy.

Project Music brought together students from all backgrounds across the university to originate musically-inspired creations for the first Music Makeathon.

Havel Liu is working on a project to revolutionize satellite systems, improving communications during natural disasters and providing a blueprint for receiving future interplanetary voicemails

Spirit Day activities look to make ECE and U-M a more compassionate, inclusive place.

This year the team tackled their first autonomous aircraft.

This year’s model, “Phoebe,” received a major design overhaul that gave her a speed boost and new codebase that can be used for years to come.

Five college teams test robotic suits that could enhance humans’ abilities.

Students toured Amazon, Boeing, INRIX, Madrona Venture Partners, Microsoft, and Philips Healthcare in the Puget Sound area.

We congratulate these students for achieving notable success in the areas of academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

Student leads team that programs the future of boats.

Students visited DTE Energy and Ford in Detroit to learn about the life of electrical and computer engineers in industry.

Meet 3 members of the solar car team: a battery engineer and two race micro systems engineers

Planning to launch mid-2018, an exciting team of Michigan students is designing a space-based time capsule.

Keenan Rebara hopes to add to the fun of spinning the Cube using his a bit of physics and sensors.

The U-M Baja Racing team took first place in the U.S. national competition for the third year in a row, making them the first team to ever three-peat.

Student team STARX (STrength Augmenting Robotic eXoskeletons) completed its second year, focused on making practical powered exoskeletons that increase the effective strength of the user.

The Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA) won the first ever Spaceport America Cup, an intercollegiate rocket engineering competition with over 110 teams from colleges and universities in eleven countries.

Sam Tenka traveled to Ecuador with the Honors GO team to aid the Street Children Work project.

Two electrical engineering students, Paul Giessner and Noah Mitchell-Ward, were awarded scholarships from the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) to support their education in wind and solar power.

MHacks winner Duncan Abbot wants his VR software startup, Gwdion, to change how humans interact with technology.

Kit Ng becomes president of one of the oldest amateur radio clubs in the US

Awards covered academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

This $2000 scholarship recognizes outstanding students committed to exploring the power and energy field. Leonard wants to work in the energy industry towards a more sustainable and secure electric grid.

UM-SEDS co-President Arun Nagpal develops ENG 100 section to expose freshman to space science and atmospheric sensing.

EE student Zach Burns brought home a silver medal from the Rio De Janeiro Summer Olympics as part of the US Paralympic Rowing Team.

Four EECS students part of the Michigan Men’s Rowing team that won their 9th consecutive national championship

IPAN sent eight undergraduates to Germany for a month of lab work, learning about the intricacies of the brain.

MHybrid team members took away memorable experiences and have turned a positive eye toward the future – with graduates anticipating new careers.

The device resembles a swaddling hammock and features a heating pad charged by thermoelectrics, allowing users to light candles beneath the cells to generate power.

A team of undergraduates across majors, called Project Music, collaborated to design and build musical instruments. Recently, the team crafted a bass guitar made partially of LEGOS.

To celebrate the contributions of our graduate and undergraduate instructors, the department selects the best of the best, based on student evaluations, and celebrates them at a special awards ceremony.

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing, with applications in biomedical images, time-varying imagery, robotics, and optics.

The convention hosted more than 100 major companies, and offered students career workshops on interviewing, networking, and general industry know-how.

Each day the students set up a mobile clinic with a doctor from a partner organization, reaching as many 600 community members while in Cusco.

Clark proposed framing the issue of collecting data from a network of different sensors as an optimization problem, making a solution easier to formulate for different systems.

Adkins plans to continue his graduate studies in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California Berkeley.

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

Diwali is an ancient Hindu festival that signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

Local companies set up stands in the EECS Atrium to recruit from over 200 graduate and undergraduate students.

Alum startup Jetivity aims to bring people together around shared interests with a free platform for posting activities.

55 U-M engineers attended the convention, themed “Reimagining Your Future,” and developed vital connections in their field.

For this year’s competition, UM::Autonomy performed a complete hull redesign, motivated by instability in their previous designs.

Cheng Zhang and Elizabeth Dreyer are both Ph.D. students in electrical engineering, and Lauren Bilbo is an undergraduate senior majoring in electrical engineering.

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

The goal of the project is to augment the transmission of audio and video with the sense of touch.

EECS 413 is an introduction to CMOS analog and mixed signal design, and also introduces advanced topics.

Alexandria ran on the platform of women in STEM, and exhibited her singing talent from an extensive musical and dance background.

Cameron is intent on using her major to benefit others as directly as possible.

Shayna recently accepted a job offer at General Motors, and will dive into a position in infotainment there after school.

Students worked on a GIEU program in Amritsar, India, where they participated in langar events at the Golden Temple.

Isabel envisions a future working in the aerospace industry.

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

“IEEE opens up many doors for students – professionally and socially.”

Congratulations and welcome to our new class of students!

The specifications for the projects were close to the state of the art. Congratulations to the winning groups!

David is interested in controlling the energy that flows through the nation’s grid system, particularly in optimizing the flow by minimizing distance and costs.

The project involved designing new boards and writing test software, as well as writing software to control instruments and some integrated circuit design.

The UVIG works with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide a forum for the critical analysis of wind and solar technology.

Max will be employed by KPCB portfolio company One Kings Lane, where he will develop his technical skills and be mentored by an engineering executive.

This was the first year Freescale opened up the competition to U.S. students—teams from U-M, U-M Dearborn, and Penn State competed against teams from Mexico and China.

Sung Ho plans to design photoconductive antenna arrays with optimal radiation efficiency and broadband operation.

“Energy will be the major concern in the United States for my generation,” Connor says. “Now is the time to research and invest in the technologies that will power our future.”

Tanya said she believes engineers have a unique perspective on the world because of their training, making it natural to draw analogies between humans and science.

“We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects,” stated Dr. Naraghi.

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!

Taking first place in acceleration and second place in endurance and autocross, this is one of the team’s best international finishes to date.

St. George’s Day was initiated in 1987 as a tribute to our students from the faculty.

As one of the only non-mechanical engineers on the team, Oberlin was responsible for all of the electrical systems on the vehicle.

The competition sought solutions for a better way for the deaf and hearing-impaired population to appreciate music.

The scholarship is designed to encourage future leaders and key technical contributors.