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Powered by a broadband infrared laser, the device can zero in on the ‘spectral fingerprint region’.

U-M researchers created a reservoir computing system that reduces training time and improves capacity of similar neural networks.

The keynote was titled, “Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine.”

Porche shares the global state of cyber warfare, and how his time at Michigan led him to the front lines.

This series of talks features world-renowned faculty with a long history at Michigan.

His PhD from Michigan ECE allowed him to lead one of the largest tech companies’ AI Products initiative.

Prof. Lu is an internationally recognized leader in the development of memristors for memory and logic applications.

A water-absorbing hydrogel made from bacteria provides a safer soil solution.

Millimeter-sized computers log the temperature and pressure from deep within oil wells.

Thomas B. A. Senior, professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, passed away peacefully November 24, 2017, at the age of 89.

Kamal Sarabandi has expanded radar capabilities in applications ranging from low earth orbit to thousands of feet underground.

New techniques to construct deep UV LEDs prove prize-worthy.

SPARC awarded $1M to a U-M project developing better nerve mapping.

The new partnership will provide scalable storage and an analytic software framework available to all U-M researchers.

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

DARPA is trying to build a system that can turn large data sets into models that can make predictions, and U-M is in on the project.

Laura Andre says she “ended up just falling in love with optics.”

Lasers are typically thought of as hot. What if they were able to cool?

Alumnus Navid Yazdi develops sensors that accomplish incredible tasks.

The unexpected journey of father-and-daughter Raytheon engineers.

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

It could enable tabletop particle and X-ray sources as well as the investigation of astrophysics and quantum dynamics.

The national champions celebrate the most successful world race finish in team history.

Early theoretical solutions led to practical applications that continue to power our digital world, while his inventions spanned the spectrum from playful to paramount.

Mi recognized for his work with full-color LEDs and more

Nees recognized for work with ultrafast lasers

Prof. Galvanauskas was recognized for his pioneering work with fiber lasers.

How a building’s thermal energy can help the power grid accommodate more renewable energy sources.

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.

Scar tissue left over from heart attacks creates dead zones that don’t beat. Bioengineered patches could fix that.

Prof. Jessy Grizzle has long said that his work in robotics could one day be used to help the disabled. Now he and his group, alongside French company Wandercraft, are working to make that claim a reality in the form of walking exoskeletons.

Built to handle falls, and with two extra motors in each leg, the new robot will help U-M roboticists take independent robotic walking to a whole new level.

Prof. Shai Revzen’s lab in ECE has developed an inexpensive technique to rapidly fabricate a variety of useful robots.

A select group of high school students spent a week in classes and labs as they participated in the Electrify Tech Camps to learn just a few things that go on in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Phillips, Lenaway, Daly, and Foley concluded that early exposure to EE technical areas was likely the best way to draw more students to the field further down the line.

The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists.

Fred Buhler founded Aweslome to provide custom-build chips for a broad range of applications, including machine learning, neural networks, security, and circuits testing.

Dsouza’s lessons have gone viral, his channel now has over 109,000 subscribers who tune in for Dsouza’s lessons and life updates.

ECE alum Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics, is working to make tomorrow’s technology user friendly, safe, and reliable. The company hopes to lead what they call “the human interface revolution.”

The UM::Autonomy team brought their latest autonomous boat, called Flying Sloth, to participate in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation Roboboat competition.

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.

The University of Michigan Intelligent Ground Vehicle (UMIGV) student team has spent much of its first year organizing and fundraising, and is now building a prototype autonomous vehicle.

The Michigan Hybrid Racing (MHybrid) team took their latest creation to the Formula Hybrid Competition at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in May.

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.

New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond.

Believing in the power of creativity and quick action, the Fusses wanted to give the department maximum flexibility to respond to new initiatives and special needs wherever and whenever they arose. They are especially interested in expanding student diversity.

Fuss’ solid foundation and curious nature led him to make lasting contributions first at Bell Labs, and then as a founder and president of Tellabs, International.

Elmer Gilbert reflects on his illustrious career in Control

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

Prof. Becky Peterson has received a 2018 U-M Henry Russel Award, which is considered the University’s highest honor for faculty at the early to mid-career stages of their career.

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.

The authors demonstrated that it is possible to synthesize provably-correct robust feedback controllers that can handle various types of imperfections in the models or measurements.

Babak Parviz (MSE PhD EE 97 01; also MS Physics 97) was presented with a Bicentennial Alumni Award for his pioneering technological innovations that improve people’s lives. Babak is one of 20 alumni to earn this award.

Alumnus Kukjin Chun receives the highest national honor for a Korean scientist and engineer.

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

Vasanthakumar came back to Chennai in 2016 with a goal to reinvent traditional and widely used personal products, starting with one of the most versatile products –— the lunchbox.

By developing a fast algorithm to map out the paths light takes through yogurt, researchers aim to someday see through skin.

Putting our arm movements into code.

Dr. Valdis Liepa retires after nearly 50 years as a faculty member in the Radiation Laboratory.

New memristor chips can see patterns over pixels.

This honor, established in 2017, recognizes Dr. Hong for his pioneering work in the personal electronics industry, playing a key role in shaping our world.

Anna Stuhlmacher, PhD in electrical engineering, is looking for ways to change the world through power and energy.

Michigan engineers release individual cells from a specially-designed chip using laser pulses.

Alumnus develops platform that allows instructors to turn almost any course into a multiplayer online game.

The Optics and Photonics event showed a thriving industry in SE Michigan

This award recognizes the paper published 15 years ago (2002) that has had the biggest impact on the field

Professor Senior has played key roles in URSI over the past 50 years

These students are learning to improve images in medical imaging, and improve facial recognition

With their gift, Stephen and Rosamund Forrest are making it possible for more graduate and undergraduate students pursue their dreams

This fund will provide need-based support to undergraduate students.

Hofmann is great at introducing students to power electronics

Yagle’s career was distinguished by his dedication to teaching as well as contributions to research.

The winning projects were designed for battery-operated mobile applications as well as instrumentation and measure applications.

A biologist turned roboticist takes a closer look at dog gaits to help design better movements for four-legged robots.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

ECE students say Prof. Deotare is the best!

Dean England of U-M Dearborn has been particularly good in helping women faculty and students achieve success.

Prof. Mathieu is partnering with IOE faculty to improve the nation’s grid system

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

A celebration with traditional food, calligraphy, and musical performances.

Awards covered academic achievement, research, service, and entrepreneurship

This award is given to those for Distinguished Public Service that is expected to help tech employees

How to build fast and cheap robots

Alumna works on microgrids to upgrade infrastructure

A little silver goes a long way to improving touchscreens, displays, and much more

From electrical engineering to University CRO

Meet ECE’s master of all details large and small

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.

What a difference maker can do in the workplace

As a member of the DDOTS to PICS MURI, Revzen will advance modeling and control of dynamic systems.

Beigné is a senior scientist at the “most innovative research organization”

Finelli takes on the future of educating engineers

Winful discusses life in education

Sawicki was one of 4 students in the College of Engineering selected to receive a 2017 Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors.

Award for outstanding doctoral candidates near the end of their study.

Award recognizes exceptional dissertations

New walking robot based on birds

Professors Blaauw and Sylvester showcase capabilities of tiny computing

Liu’s most recent research involves online learning, modeling of large-scale internet measurement data, and incentive mechanisms for security games.

Cassie is the first offering from new startup Agility Robotics, and is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird similar to an ostrich.

SPIE chose Stock for her achievements in business development and science policy

Prof. Mi conducts research in the area of semiconductor optoelectronics, specifically in the areas of III-nitride semiconductors, low dimensional nanostructures, LEDs, lasers, Si photonics, artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels.

Elsie MacGill, the world’s first female aircraft designer, drew strength from the women who came before her.

Franklin believes the best research results are achieved from a diversity of backgrounds, something she learned as a graduate student at Michigan and fosters in her own research group at Minnesota.

Prof. Liu helped implement a diversity incentive program that led to a record number of newly-admitted underrepresented PhD students in 2016 while overseeing the merger of two graduate programs.

Former Michigan Engineering dean David C. Munson Jr. has been named president of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

This national center, established in 1990, confirmed Michigan’s leadership in the field.

Congratulations!

Prof. Hero and his research group build foundational theory and methodology for data science and engineering. His recent research interests are data science, bioinformatics and personalized health, statistical signal processing and imaging, and more.

Prof. Lu is an internationally recognized leader in the development of memristors for memory and logic applications. He has also developed nanowire transistors suitable for flexible electronics and opto-electronics.

Prof. Todd Coleman’s group is tackling the challenging problem of getting high-fidelity monitoring to work affordably at home.

In this project, Prof. Peterson will develop new alloys of amorphous oxide semiconductors with precisely tuned semiconductor energy band structures, in order to enable new categories of electronic and opto-electronic devices.

The symposium highlighted the world-class work done at the University.

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.

As technology changes and advances, so does the range of courses offered by our faculty.