David Kwabi’s cost-effective CO2 removal technology licensed by U-M startup
12/03/2024
12/03/2024
David Kwabi’s electrochemical carbon capture technology has been licensed by a U-M startup to be developed for commercial-scale use.
News Article Tag: design
Upwardly Mobile
11/11/2024
11/11/2024
How Campus Plan 2050 Is Reimagining the Future of Transportation and Accelerating U-M’s Leadership Toward a More Sustainable, Effective and Equitable Mobility Future
Jon Estrada receives NSF CAREER Award for customizable procedure to test mechanically graded soft materials
03/27/2024
03/27/2024
Estrada will work to most fully characterize new samples and develop informed testing procedures that will bring mechanically graded soft materials closer to their many possible industry applications.
Model detects indoor or outdoor walks based only on movement data
03/18/2024
03/18/2024
Real-world walking data informs machine learning model.
Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
06/20/2023
06/20/2023
A new tool in the fight against superbugs goes beyond protein folding simulations like AlphaFold, potentially revealing antibiotic candidates.
Engineering for a healthier Earth
04/22/2023
04/22/2023
A gathering of a few of the many efforts mechanical engineers are putting towards a greener future. Happy Earth Day!
New activity trackers for dolphin conservation
12/22/2022
12/22/2022
Experiments with custom-made biologging devices offer new insight into dolphin swimming and energy requirements.
Dr. Jian Cao delivers 2022 S.M. Wu Distinguished Lecture in Manufacturing
09/16/2022
09/16/2022
Dr. Cao’s lecture, titled “Bring Flexibility and Innovation to Manufacturing Processes,” focused on how to integrate fundamental process mechanics, process control, and techniques, including machine learning, to achieve effective and efficient predictions of a material’s mechanical behavior during manufacturing processes.
Jesse Capecelatro details recent developments in computational modeling of dry powder inhalers
08/25/2022
08/25/2022
Efforts to model air flow and track drug particles for specific drugs and patients are often costly, but a range of options are available to DPI designers for problem-solving through the complexities of achieving appropriate flows for each drug and patient, Dr. Capecelatro argues.
ME student team receives VentureWell E-Team Grant for safe battery storage design
07/08/2022
07/08/2022
Each year, some 3,500 coin cell batteries are swallowed by children and toddlers, causing internal burns in the esophagus and fatalities. A team of ME undergraduates who participated in the RISE ME390 program has received external funding through the VentureWell e-team program to help commercialize their safe battery storage innovation.