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The grant is aimed at advancing organic photovoltaics, a carbon-based version of solar technology that promises to change the way the sun’s energy is collected.

At the age of 24, Yang sold his company ChinaRen for $35 million.

The research aimed to find a happy medium between fuel economy and drivability in hybrid electric vehicles.

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

Prof. Farris served as an active and highly respected member of the College of Engineering for more than 20 years.

The 2014 LNF (Lurie Nanofabrication Facility) User Symposium highlighted the cutting-edge research enabled by Michigan’s world-class facility.

Flynn has achieved important breakthroughs in the performance and energy efficiency of analog-digital interfaces.

ECE researchers had a strong presence at this year’s event, comprising nearly 80 of the day’s more than 240 presentations.

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

She computationally measures, represents, and analyzes human behavior data to illuminate fundamental human behavior and emotion perception, and develop natural human-machine interfaces.

SkySpecs is currently in the process of launching their first product, the Guardian, which will help prevent collisions.

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is a remote sensing organization with more than 3700 members around the globe.

Kyusang developed an innovative new fabrication technique to build lightweight, flexible devices not possible with conventional silicon.

The professors addressed two very different problems the industry faces with current technology.

His paper detailed his use of big data analysis to solve a major problem of cyber security.

The grant is part of a new $12.5M initiative by the National Science Foundation to encourage computing innovations for a sustainable society.

Dr. Hanson is the co-founder of a startup semiconductor company that plans to lead the low-power revolution in electronics by powering the Internet of Things.

Mathieu is working how best to integrate wind and solar power into the nation’s established electrical grid system.

His research will impact the ability to investigate the structure of brain circuits through the use of optical imaging techniques.

Peterson’s findings could be used in wireless sensing and actuation systems, including those that deal with monitoring of the environment and medical conditions.

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

Yoon is leading a team that will design new light sources with lasers capable of zooming in on individual neuron circuits within the brain.

The IEEE Daniel E. Noble award is a Technical Field Award, which is among the highest awards given.

Researchers at the University have extended the lifetime of blue organic light emitting diodes by a factor of ten.

Since coming to the University in 1984, Bhattacharya has pioneered several important technological advances.

Cheng is a 4th year PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering working in field of micro/nano-scale optical device physics and fabrication.

Tal is researching fabrication techniques for a micro rate-integrating gyroscope, using a vacuum mold and blowtorch.

Mollenkopf was elected as the third CEO of Qualcomm, Inc., which has become the largest fabless semiconductor producer in the world.

This advance could be important for fighting lung cancers, as symptoms often appear too late for effective treatment.

Prof. Norris is an internationally recognized expert in the field of ultrafast optics.

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

These faculty deepen ECE’s areas of expertise in computer vision, communications and information theory, environmental remote sensing, and laser-plasma interactions.

At MAC, Peter’s been able to combine his passions for scientific research and entrepreneurial creation.

Gok’s developed antenna system promises a large bandwidth of operation and a wide angle of coverage.

The researchers believe that metasurfaces could one day be used to completely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.

Prof. Grizzle is an internationally renowned researcher in the area of control systems.

Congratulations to Profs Bertacco, Flinn, Narayanasamy, Olson, Rais-Zadeh, and Zhong.

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Faculty and staff alike will miss his cheerful and gentle presence.

Three hundred and eighty alumni and children stretched across North Campus, dabbling in drones and bones, rockets and radioactives.

The paper addresses how to manage multiple sources so that the user can maximize the information gained from each acoustic source.

Lasers emitting in the 600nm wavelength range have applications in medicine, optical information processing, optical storage, and more.

Mourou put the University on the map in ultrafast optics when he established the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science in 1991.

This award is in recognition of being an outstanding educator, mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.

The fundamental objective of the research initiative is to uncover, explain, and exploit dynamic magneto-optical processes and materials for new technological capabilities.

The findings show, for the first time, exactly how some memristors remember.

The paper reports on the design, fabrication, and results of a directly heated phase change RF switch using germanium telluride.

With precarious particles called polaritons that straddle the worlds of light and matter, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam.

Chia-Hsiang’s research focuses on designing low-power and error-resilient circuit techniques for digital signal processing applications.

Kathryn believes the country would benefit greatly if more scientific and technically trained people went into journalism or science policy.

Nick specializes in the area of machine learning and statistical signal processing.

Parinaz’s research is in combining communications with economics to assess the security of a network and then apply that to cyber-insurance contracts.

U-M researchers demonstrated a unique terahertz detector and imaging system that could bridge the terahertz gap.

The two winning projects and teams were determined by an expert panel at Analog Devices. Congratulations!

All of the research being presented focuses on getting the absolute best performance from the tiniest circuits, sensors, and electronic devices.

Prof. Scott’s research is in the field of machine learning, and his paper builds upon “supervised pattern classification.”

Michigan is one of seven universities IBM is partnering with to give students access to the technology.

The goal of Gomez’s research is to alleviate the communications blackout that sometimes occurs when vehicles are traveling through the earth’s atmosphere.

The Graduate Student Instructor and Instructional Aide Awards Ceremony was a night to celebrate and thank the University’s wonderful student educators.

Hao’s research is focused on improving the quality of images from magnetic resonance imaging pulse design.

Conway will be named a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

He is a founding member of Own It, and is dedicated to cultivating an engineering community that feels an inherent responsibility to live ethically.

Jason’s current research focuses on developing systems to wirelessly charge or power electronic devices.

The Convention offers leadership development, internship opportunities, networking activities, and professional workshops.

Called {Girls Code}, the workshop taught the girls the basics of Arduino—open-source electronics prototyping platform.

Rais-Zadeh’s devices are expected to enable sensors for use in harsh environment, high-speed wireless communications, and more.

G.R.E.A.T. Day is designed to open up young girls’ minds to the possibility of engineering as a career path.

Isabel envisions a future working in the aerospace industry.

His research is contributing to the overall project goal of enabling navigation in GPS denied zones through the use of specialized sensors.

Chris develops and tests control systems for MEMS inertial sensors, which are used to detect acceleration, tilt, and other attributes related to motion sensing.

Mai has served as Community Service Co-chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers since arriving at Michigan in 2011.

Nick has an impressive record of service to the community throughout his years at Michigan.

The research group is using statistical signal processing to create crisper images with only 20% of the data required by a traditional MRI scan.

Hong intends to apply machine learning and signal processing techniques to the massive data sets now available to researchers.

Congratulations to these phenomenal students!

Instead of a battery, the chip Nathan is engineering uses two solar cells that look like they belong on a calculator.

These students received the award for their creativity as an instructor, their thorough understanding of the content, and for their dedication to student success.

These students received the award based on their participation in research, leadership, and academic performance.

The chips’ extreme energy efficiency enables them to be powered without a battery from harvested energy sources like vibration, thermal gradients, and more.

His final goal is to build novel RF circuits including frequency-selective switched oscillators based on his models.

Elizabeth’s research is to understand how a new interaction between light and matter can generate electricity.

Girish’s research has resulted in a new paradigm in sensor technology that promises both high-speed and highly-sensitive detection.

The detector developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers doesn’t need bulky cooling equipment to work.

The idea behind Keravnos Energy is for there to be an energy transfer between three entities: the building, a large stationary battery, and the car.

Dawson is thrilled that his work on Kinect has bred creativity and enhanced lives beyond video games.

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

The cells, believed to be the first semi-transparent, colored photovoltaics, have the potential to vastly broaden the use of the energy source.

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Queens College used light to create links between organic and inorganic semiconductors in an optical cavity.

Students praise the personal attention he gives them, and his obvious concern for their personal and professional development.

Michigan Engineering professor Duncan Steel explains how quantum computing works, using quantum bits that take on superpositions of 0 and 1 simultaneously.

One promising area of cancer treatment is photodynamic therapy, which combines the agents of a photosensitive drug, light, and oxygen.

Wang’s research studies the glow-like atmospheric pressure microdischarges created under specialized conditions in laser printers.

The funds from State Farm will be used to renovate the Student Projects Lab and to increase its capacity to serve students.

The inventor of Google Glass is now developing glucose monitoring contact lenses.

Glyph is a wearable mobile personal theater and is the first head-mounted display coming to market that will have a virtual retinal display.

These faculty are recognized for their unique contributions during the past year.

Nataraj is using big data techniques to transform the field of medical imaging

Nataraj’s research aims to generate higher-quality and faster MRI images, resulting in improved diagnostics of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases.

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

This work will provide a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

What if smartphones could act as mentors in mindfulness?