Come one, come all to the 4th CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems! Held May 21-23, 2012 at the University of Michigan. Keynote speakers include Prof. Daniel Whitney from MIT and the conference theme is responsible customer-driven assembly
FlexDex Surgical, an innovative medical device company founded by Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Shorya Awtar and Medical School Professor James Geiger, has received coverage from several media outlets
Members of Prof. Shorya Awtar’s research group, the Precision Systems Design Lab (PSDL), won two Best Paper Awards at the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC)
ME’s undergrad curriculum has a unique team-based, Design-Build-Test spine of required classes. In Design and Manufacturing I, II and III (ME250, 350 and 450 respectively), sophomores, juniors and seniors turn concepts into real, working engineered system
A technology developed for fly fishing is expanding to baseball and other sports
FlexDex™ is a platform technology that provides enhanced dexterity, intuitive control, and natural force feedback in minimally invasive surgery.
A revolutionary shape-changing aircraft wing took to the air recently in a successful test flight. The equipment is developed by Ann Arbor-based FlexSys, Inc., founded and led by ME professor Sridhar Kota
The ME department is pleased to welcome Jeff Sakamoto and Ramanarayan Vasudevan who will both be joining the faculty as associate professor and assistant professor, respectively
The Robotics and Automation Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has appointed Kazuhiro Saitou as Editor in Chief for the Conference Editorial Board of the Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Noel Perkins has developed a new technology that is able to visually project and analyze the movement of a baseball bat’s swing–the SwingTracker