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Welcome from the Chair

Ellen Arruda

What do you get when you give some of the brightest and most motivated student minds access to world-class faculty and facilities and present them with extremely difficult problems to solve?

Mechanical engineers who have a positive impact on the world around them.

As chair of the University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering (U-M ME), I have the privilege of seeing this on a daily basis... read more

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ME Celebrates 150 Years!

2018-19 ME Annual Report released

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Recent News

Daly and Dasgupta Selected as Miller Faculty Scholars

03/30/2020

This award, endowed by engineering alumnus Larry Miller, is set up to recognize junior faculty members.

Nature Communications Publishes Paper: Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes

03/25/2020

U-M ME PhD Student, Jeffrey Smith, and Professor Don Siegel have a paper titled, "Low-temperature paddlewheel effect in glassy solid electrolytes," published in Nature Communications.

Mohsen Taheri Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

03/24/2020

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. We seek to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

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