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“Our mission is to find volunteer opportunities at the places that people want to travel to, opportunities that won’t cost the traveler a lot of money.”

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Until now, ubiquitous computing has been hampered by the size of necessary batteries—but Ambiq Micro is changing that, with their energy-efficient micro-controllers.

Wise is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in sensor technology as well as a MEMS pioneer and entrepreneur.

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!

Congratulations to these outstanding faculty members!

According to IEEE, “the grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.”

By using the wiggling motion of electrons in a plasma bubble generated by the ultrashort laser pulse, researchers produced X-rays comparable to that produced in a synchrotron facility.

The M45 program allows universities to conduct research otherwise impossible without the power and speed of an Internet-scale supercomputing resource.

The CADathlon challenges students’ CAD knowledge and associated problem solving, programming, and teamwork skills.

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

Can the laser’s pulse propagate in such a way that it does not change its energy, and leaves the system in the excited state? Does the pulse speed up during propagation?

Kushner was recognized “for contributions to modeling and understanding of plasmas, especially those used in thin film etching, deposition and surface modification.”

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

As designs become more complex and functional, power consumption is becoming the major design consideration and bottleneck in many portable applications.

The aim of Dattoli’s research is to improve and broaden the understanding of nanowire gas sensing behavior.

The Welker Award is given to people who have achieved exceptional progress in the field of opto-semiconductors.

Grizzle is well-known in the robotic community for his work with the bipedal robot MABEL, and has worked in the automotive industry for over two decades.

Sarabandi’s research encompasses a range of topics in the area of applied electromagnetics, and has been principal investigator on NASA projects related to remote sensing.

With D4AR models, you can monitor progress, productivity, safety, quality, constructability and even site logistics remotely.

The resulting 65nm CMOS test chip achieved an energy efficiency of 21 pJ/bit making it a promising candidate for low-power, high-performance applications.

Moghaddam will oversee the design and fabrication of the AirMOSS instrument, a high-powered, low-frequency radar that NASA/JPL collaborators will build for the project.

The Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition is a student robotics competition in which teams race ASVs of their own design through an aquatic obstacle course.

The team is working toward building organic lasers that, like many inorganic lasers today, can be excited with electricity rather than light.

“Imagine a microprocessor so tiny and long lasting that it can be implanted in the eye of a glaucoma sufferer to measure the progress of the disease.”

The WIMS has impacted health care, environmental monitoring, the national infrastructure while CUOS specializes in ultrafast lasers.

SMAP is a satellite mission for mapping surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states for the purpose of scientific advances and societal benefits.

The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices.

Congratulations to Jeong, Park, and Yoon!

Tkaczyk plans to put his degrees to work in Estonia, where he hopes to develop a portable and affordable cataract assessment technology.

Professor Grbic is a world-class researcher in the field of electromagnetics and microwave circuits, and has won numerous awards for his work. Congratulations!

Xu is interested in identifying patterns in data that is collected over time where the underlying processes generating the data may be non-stationary.

The Fellowship will support Patel’s research on the theory and development of textured electromagnetic surfaces.

“I am confident we can do better than the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse paradigm, and I intend to find out how,” said O’Keefe.

The Award engages rising research stars and provides high-impact funding to develop their ideas in the context of Department of Defense needs.

The award acknowledges Jarrahi’s efforts to develop a new generation of compact high power terahertz sources.

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

Buss’ research focusses on using control theory in order to control glucose levels in ICU patients.

The work, published in 2006, will be acknowledged at the EUSIPCO Conference in Denmark.

The award acknowledges Domitilla’s contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology.

The Michigan team produced circuits that were four times more power-efficient than those of the team that took second place. Congratulations!

The energy-harvesting devices are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

The Barbour Scholarship, established in 1914, recognizes women at the University of Michigan of the highest academic and professional caliber.

The competition was established by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan to encourage entrepreneurship and the development of clean-energy technologies.

The research funded by Google involves redesigning servers and data centers to improve their energy efficiency.

Lu was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his research project, which intends to develop unconventional, high-performance memory and logic systems.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is given to those with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any IEEE field.

The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier.

The Awards recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

The paper addresses the importance of knowing where networks of sensors are located once they’ve been deployed.