10/14/2022
The UM-ME Department is pleased to welcome our new faculty members Sita Syal and Hugo Villasanti.
The UM-ME Department is pleased to welcome our new faculty members Sita Syal and Hugo Villasanti.
Chinedum Okwudire, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Miller Faculty Scholar, was selected to serve on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) ad-hoc committee formed to develop options for a national plan for smart manufacturing technology development and deployment.
James Holly, Jr., Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, spoke on the need for faculty to have a robust understanding of social inequity, to utilize cultural knowledge as an asset, and to leverage insights from perspectives of racially-marginalized peoples in engineering classrooms.
The UM Battery Lab, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor Jeff Sakamoto, is working to create safer electric vehicle batteries that last longer.
Anna Stefanopoulou, William Clay Ford Professor of Technology in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering, sat down recently with Let’s Talk!, a podcast series hosted by the Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at UL Research Institutes.
Dr. Holly, Jr.’s project will investigate how centering urban Black youth’s knowledge production can formulate new meanings and purposes for engineering study and practice.
Dr. Kon-Well Wang set the stage by giving an overview of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Program and its impact on science, engineering, and society.
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.
Jim Barber is held with the utmost esteem by his colleagues across the world. The quality of his work, his collegiality, and his earnest devotion to his field are among the many praises sung by the contributors to a special issue of the International Journal of Solids and Structures (IJSS).
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Manufacturing Leadership Council awarded UM-ME Associate Professor Kira Barton’s Research Group a Manufacturing Leadership Award in the Council’s Collaborative Ecosystems category.