Shawn McElmurry was featured by several news outlets for his research on detecting lead hotspots in urban gardens. To properly assess the risk of soil contamination in urban gardens, McElmurry and fellow Wayne State University researchers analyzed the lead content in soil across a local urban garden plot and evaluated the results of several sampling strategies, some of which failed to detect a lead "hotspot" in one corner of the plot.
June 6, 2013
Peter Savolainen was featured by several news outlets for the research he will be conducting on whether different freeway speed limits in Michigan for passenger vehicles and large trucks make roads safer. The study is funded by a one year, $175,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The study will be delivered to MDOT officials, who are expected to consider whether to increase Michigan's speed limit for large trucks and buses.
June 5, 2013
Timothy Gates was featured by several news outlets for the research he will be conducting on whether different freeway speed limits in Michigan for passenger vehicles and large trucks make roads safer. The study is funded by a one year, $175,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The study will be delivered to MDOT officials, who are expected to consider whether to increase Michigan's speed limit for large trucks and buses.
June 5, 2013
Shawn McElmurry was featured in a Newswise article for receiving the 2013 ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Society of Civil Engineer's (ASCE) Committee on Faculty Development. The award honors new faculty members for their outstanding teaching records, contributions to the academic and surrounding communities, and proven commitment to education.
View ArticleJune 5, 2013
Weisong Shi was featured by several news outlets for his development of a technique called LOBOT that provides accurate, real-time, 3-D positions of robots in both indoor and outdoor environments. In a paper titled "LOBOT: Low-Cost, Self-Contained Localization of Small-Sized Ground Robotic Vehicles," Shi lays out a technique for ground robots to share location information. The LOBOT system uses a GPS receiver, a 3-axis accelerometer, a magnetic field sensor, and multiple motor rotation sensors. Because the GPS sensor is extremely energy-intensive, it only infrequently checks the absolute position of the machine. The magnetic field sensors, accelerometer, and motor rotation sensors keep the location information up-to-date by helping to calculate the robot's change in position relative to its previously determined GPS location. Together, these processes give a good approximation of the robot's absolute location.
June 5, 2013
Eranda Nikolla was featured in a CBS Detroit article that announced her role as seminar presenter at the Detroit Electrochemical Society meeting on May 30. The seminar is titled "Electrochemical energy conversion: Molecular approaches toward the development of efficient electrocatalysts for solid oxide electrochemical cells."
View ArticleJune 5, 2013
Gregory Auner was featured in a Crain's Detroit article on radiation detector technology. As director of the Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems program at Wayne State, Auner has been awarded several large federal grants to develop semiconductor-based sensors, including radiation detectors for NASA made from aluminum nitride.
View ArticleJune 5, 2013
Jerry Ku was featured on The C.A.R. Show, which aired live from the SAE 2013 World Congress and Exhibition at Cobo Center on April 20. Ku spoke about the College of Engineering's electric-drive vehicle engineering program and EcoCAR 2 involvement, as well as the future of electric-drive vehicles. He's featured around the 27:50 mark of the show.
View ArticleApril 29, 2013
Dean Pichette was featured in a Jewish News article titled "Taking an encore: Engineer earns applause by moving from corporate ladder to classroom."
View ArticleApril 29, 2013
Sorin Draghici was featured in a CBS Detroit article about Advaita, a biotech startup founded by Draghici. Advaita is one of 25 companies selected to participate in the new Michigan I-Corps program starting in May. Michigan I-Corps is a statewide program designed to foster, grow and nurture a statewide innovation ecosystem. Through partnerships between the National Science Foundation, Michigan universities, Michigan SmartZones, and venture capital and entrepreneurial communities, Michigan I-Corps will create an opportunity for businesses throughout the state to turn technology into commercial opportunities.
View ArticleApril 24, 2013
Hwai-Chung Wu was featured in a Crain's Detroit Business article on his start up Reinforcement Innovations LLC and the technology he has developed for maintaining roads and bridges. Wu says that testing has shown promising results on concrete columns that use a hybrid composite reinforcement instead of traditional steel reinforcements.
View ArticleApril 23, 2013
Andrian Marcus was featured in a CBS Detroit article on the utilization of WSU Computer Science students' open source software in medical field work. The initial software, called EasyEMR, was designed by students in a Fall 2012 senior project and computer ethics course taught by Marcus. On a December 2012 trip to Haiti, the School of Medicine's World Health Student Organization was the first group to test the EasyEMR program.
View ArticleApril 16, 2013
Michele Grimm was featured in a ModelD article on a $15,000 grant that Life Beyond Barriers has received to fund prototype design and development at WSU's biomedical engineering undergraduate design laboratory. Life Beyond Barriers is an initiative between Wayne State University and downtown Detroit-based tech firm Urban Science. The idea behind it is to combine medicine, science, engineering and entrepreneurship to enhance the quality of life for the injured and disabled. The donation is expected to enable the production of about 15 prototypes per year.
View ArticleApril 16, 2013
Xue-wen (William) Chen a leader of the IEEE Life Sciences Initiative, will chair a track on Collaborations and Open Access Innovations at 2013 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo April 9-11 in Boston.
View ArticleApril 4, 2013
Shawn McElmurry was featured in a WDET-FM segment on lead contamination among children. A team of researchers led by McElmurry has confirmed that seasonal fluctuations in blood lead levels found in children in urban areas throughout the United States and elsewhere in the northern hemisphere are the result of resuspended dust contaminated with lead. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology was based on nine years of data on more than 367,000 children in Detroit. (link not available)
March 19, 2013
Shawn McElmurry was featured by various news outlets for his research on childhood blood lead levels in urban areas. McElmurry is part of an international that has conducted a nine-year study of more than 367,000 children in Detroit that supports the idea that a mysterious seasonal fluctuation in blood lead levels - observed in urban areas throughout the United States and elsewhere in the northern hemisphere - results from resuspended dust contaminated with lead.
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March 18, 2013
Shawn McElmurry was featured in the Royal Oak Patch in an article titled "Study led by Royal Oak Researcher Addresses Seasonal Lead Levels in Kids."
View ArticleMarch 4, 2013
Sorin Draghici was featured in an Xconomy article about the continued growth of Advaita, a biotech startup founded by Draghici. Advaita has been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP). The 18-month program provides mentoring, training, and consulting to help companies get their products to market.
View ArticleFebruary 27, 2013
Amar Basu was featured in a CBS Detroit article for receiving two National Science Foundation grants to support his work on microfluidic technologies. Since joining Wayne State in 2008, Basu has been developing techniques for performing biological analysis in microdroplets with nanoliter-picoliter volumes 1,000 to 1 million times smaller than conventional technology.
View ArticleFebruary 20, 2013
Kai Yang was featured by various news outlets for developing a mathematical model-based methodology to estimate the optimal amount of time spent to develop a product, as well as the cost, in overlapped product development. To do this, Yang is using computer simulations derived from the characteristics of ants seeking food.
January 31, 2013
Amar Basu was featured by various news outlets for his collaborative work with Jeffrey Ram, Wayne State Medical School professor, on creating a device ships can carry to avoid bringing new invasive species into the Great Lakes. Basu brings his expertise on enzyme detection methods to the project. Read the full news release at Research@Wayne.
January 29, 2013
Jerry Ku was quoted in an AP story on Wayne State's URC partnership with UM and MSU and its impact on research in the automotive industry. The story was picked up by Yahoo News and by many other media outlets.
View ArticleJanuary 18, 2013
King-Hay Yang was interviewed in a Dateline Detroit segment that explores current research in automotive safety. WDIV medical expert Dr. Frank McGeorge visited Wayne State University's Bioengineering Center and talked to Yang about the use of automotive sensors that provide safety features in such devices as seat belts and air bags.
View ArticleJanuary 17, 2013
Simon Ng was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Detroit auto show: the future of energy-efficient cars and trucks." Ng noted the areas in which the electric car must be researched and developed before it can become mainstream.
View ArticleJanuary 17, 2013
Simon Ng was quoted in a Midwest Energy News article titled "At Detroit auto show, electric vehicles still make a splash." According to Ng, "electric vehicles will not become widely accepted by the public until they can go at least 300 miles on a charge, can be charged and ready to go within five minutes and can be bought at a price comparable to their internal combustion cousins." Click the below link for more.
View ArticleJanuary 16, 2013
Timothy Gates was featured on WDET in a segment on safe intersections. Gates is part of a national study of intersections, "to make them safer, and thus reduce the risk of getting into a crash."
View ArticleJanuary 14, 2013
Harpreet Singh was featured in the Indian newspaper Amar Ujala on Dec. 26, 2012, for receiving a Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Roorkee, India.
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Jerry Ku was quoted in an Oakland Press story titled "Wayne State represents Michigan in EcoCAR 2 national hybrid engineering competition."
View ArticleJanuary 2, 2013