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Ellen Arruda

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (UM). We are one of the best mechanical engineering programs anywhere as measured by undergraduate and graduate program rankings, amount of high-quality space, research expenditures, global partnerships, and student-led efforts... read more

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ME Celebrates 150 Years!

2017-18 ME Annual Report released

Lead. Discover. Inspire.

Recent News

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Seven ME Professors Earn College of Engineering Awards

For the 2018-19 academic year, CoE has honorably awarded seven ME faculty.

Allen Liu
NAE includes ME professor in the 2019 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Sixty early-career engineers were chosen to participate in NAE's symposium to discuss leading-edge research.

PhD Candidate Rachel Vitali
ASME Graduate Teaching Fellowship Awarded to ME Ph.D. Candidate

For the 2018-2019 academic year, Rachel Vitali is one of two candidates to be awarded this fellowship.

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The latest design of the arterial everter is a flexible tool with a tapered silicone tip that can spread the artery onto the coupler’s pins from almost any angle. The pins pierce through the artery and into the silicone without bending, and the tool’s shaft can be angled as needed. Credit: Carolyn McCarthy

Building Leaders

Who change the world

Reconstructive surgery tech gets its start in an ME 450 class -- the ‘arterial everter’ has now been licensed to Baxter.
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The jerboa - a bipedal desert rodent native to North Africa and Central Asia. Credit: Christian Baker

Future Discovery

Built on an unshakeable foundation

From rodent to robot: how a hopping mouse and information theory could inform robotic locomotion.
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A car in MCity

Hard Problems

Huge impact

Professor Peng works to improve vehicle efficiency and self-driving safety.
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