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Hongwei Zhang's research on connected cars was featured in a SmartPlanet article titled "Detroit automotive tech turns to network engineering."


View ArticleDecember 7, 2012

Cynthia Bir  was quoted in a Crain's article titled "Tech-savvy market demands crash dummies with smarts, sensitivity." The article focuses on the efforts of Humanetics Innovative Solutions Inc. to develop new crash test dummy technologies. "We want to make sure whatever innovation is being put in a vehicle doesn't create new injuries," Bir said. "We're now getting down to where we have hit all the major injuries, and dummies are becoming more sophisticated in injuries that aren't life-threatening."


View ArticleDecember 3, 2012

Kenneth Chelst  provided expert commentary in a Wall Street Journal article titled "Fuel Rationing Is Hard to Gauge."


View ArticleNovember 19, 2012

Susil Putatunda  was featured by various news outlets for leading the development of an advanced high strength steel. "The steel has been found to have the strength and durability necessary for armored vehicles to resist improvised explosive devices because of its extremely high fracture toughness," said Putatunda. "Our steel could potentially save human lives against explosive attacks."

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View ArticleNovember 7, 2012

Sorin Draghici  was featured in First Bell, the American Society for Engineering Education's newsletter, which linked to a CBS Detroit article titled Startup Biotech Company Receives Michigan Emerging Technology Award. Advaita Corp., a startup company based on technology developed by Draghici, received the final installment of a $125,000 award from the Michigan Emerging Technologies Fund program.


View ArticleOctober 23, 2012

Sorin Draghici  was featured on CBS Detroit in an article titled Startup Biotech Company Receives Michigan Emerging Technology Award. Advaita Corp., a startup company based on technology developed by Draghici, received the final installment of a $125,000 award from the Michigan Emerging Technologies Fund program.


View ArticleOctober 22, 2012

Cynthia Bir  was featured on WDET's Craig Fahle Show, discussing her involvement in Discovery Channel's Curiosity Plane Crash, which used a test crash of a Boeing 727 in the Sonoran desert to learn more about what actually happens to passengers when a plane goes down. Bir took charge of the crash test dummies, examining them immediately after the the plane hit the desert to get an idea of what injuries might have been sustained.


View ArticleOctober 18, 2012

Cynthia Bir  impact expert, was featured by various news outlets, including an appearance on Good Morning America, for taking part in Discovery Channel's Curiosity Plane Crash, which used a test crash of a Boeing 727 in the Sonoran desert to learn more about what actually happens to passengers when a plane goes down. Bir took charge of the crash test dummies, examining them immediately after the the plane hit the desert to get an idea of what injuries might have been sustained.  The Curiosity episode featuring Bir and the plane crash premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7. on the Discovery Channel.

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View ArticleOctober 3, 2012

Cynthia Bir  impact expert, appeared on Good Morning America to discuss her role in a Discovery Channel project aimed at examining how one might increase their odds of survival in a plane crash. The Curiosity episode featuring Bir and the plane crash premieres at 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7. on the Discovery Channel.

 


View ArticleOctober 1, 2012

Cynthia Bir  was quoted by the ATV Network in the UK in an article titled "Channel 4 Takes Off to Crash Land Plane." The article discusses an upcoming documentary project in which Dr. Bir and other experts crash land a Boeing 727 passenger jet to discover what kind of impact a plane crash has on its passengers.


View ArticleSeptember 28, 2012

Dennis A. Corrigan  was mentioned in a CBS Detroit article about an upcoming event, “Supercapacitor Energy Storage for Hybrid Electric Vehicles: An Examination and Discussion of Why Not and Why,” at Lawrence Technological University. Corrigan is the event presenter.


View ArticleSeptember 28, 2012

Jaewon Jang  was featured in a CBS Detroit article about being part of a national project to find accessible sources of natural gas.


View ArticleSeptember 27, 2012

Jaewon Jang  was featured in an Oil and Gas Online article about being part of a national project to find accessible sources of natural gas.


View ArticleSeptember 27, 2012

Jaewon Jang  was featured in a Super Computing Online article about being part of a national project to find accessible sources of natural gas.


View ArticleSeptember 27, 2012

Yong Xu  was featured in a CBS Detroit article on a technology he has developed that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Yong Xu  was featured in a New Electronics article on a technology he has developed that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Feng Lin  was featured in a Science Codex article that discusses his research on the effectiveness of adolescent smoking prevention programs.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Yong Xu  was featured on the website spacemart.com for the technology he has developed that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Yong Xu  was featured in a Solid State Technology article on a technology he has developed that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Feng Lin  was featured in an article on the Michigan University Research Corridor (URC) website that discusses his research on the effectiveness of adolescent smoking prevention programs.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Yong Xu  was featured in an article on the Michigan University Research Corridor (URC) website on a technology he has developed that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Hwai-Chung Wu  was featured in an article on the Michigan University Research Corridor (URC) website on an environmentally friendly and less costly cement mixture he has developed.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Peter Savolainen  was featured on WDET's Craig Fahle Show, discussing issues related to distracted driving.


View ArticleSeptember 20, 2012

Cynthia Bir  was featured in a Detroit Free Press article in which she draws on her Sport Science experience to speculate whether or not Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson could outrun Olympian Usain Bolt.


View ArticleAugust 17, 2012

Marcis Jansons  was featured in a Yahoo News article for being honored with the Ralph R. Teetor Education Award during the SAE 2012 World Congress held in Detroit.


View ArticleAugust 16, 2012

Jerry Ku  was featured on WWJ-TV's website for participating in a panel on the high-tech future of the auto industry at the WWJ Newsradio 950 businesss breakfast at Michigan State University.


View ArticleJune 15, 2012

Loren Schwiebert  was featured on WDET's Craig Fahle Show for a discussion on the topic Help Wanted: Jobs and the Future of IT.


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Monica Brockmeyer  was featured in the Detroit Free Press for being selected for the inaugural class of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) at Drexel University College of Medicine.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Guangzhao Mao  was featured on WWJ-TV's website for hosting former participants in the Gaining Options - Girls Investigate Real Life (GO-GIRL) program at the College of Engineering. At the event, called GO-GIRL Material Girls event, Mao and Assistant Professor Eranda Nikolla gave tours of the chemical engineering nanomaterials laboratory and the energy materials laboratory.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Eranda Nikolla  was featured on WWJ-TV's website for hosting former participants in the Gaining Options - Girls Investigate Real Life (GO-GIRL) program at the College of Engineering. At the event, called GO-GIRL Material Girls, Nikolla and Professor Guangzhao Mao gave tours of the chemical engineering nanomaterials laboratory and the energy materials laboratory.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Sean Wu  was featured on examiner.com for developing noise-quiting technology with spinoff company SenSound.


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Michele Grimm  was featured in The South End for her role in advising a group of biomedical engineering students who won second place in a worldwide competition for their design of a diabetes testing device.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Christopher Eamon  was featured on WWJ-TV's website for the $250,000 grant he received to develop an accurate and efficient method for calculating failure probability (reliability analysis) for complex structural engineering problems, with the goal of achieving greater levels of consistency within a structure.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Song Jiang  was featured on WWJ-TV's website for his work in improving online storage systems.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Hongwei Zhang  was featured in Model D for the $300,000 grant he and Patrick Gossman, deputy chief information officer for special projects, received to build an experimental wireless networking infrastructure for research, education and application exploration.


View ArticleMay 16, 2012

Howard Matthew  was featured on mitechnews.com for being elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering.


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Wei-Ping Ren  was featured on nanotechweb.org for his research group's development of a "bone-like" nanofibrous scaffold for use in orthopedic applications.


View ArticleMarch 20, 2012

Vaclav Rajlich  was featured in the Detroit Free Press for publishing his book, Software Engineering: The Current Practice (CRC Press).


View ArticleFebruary 2, 2012

Farshad Fotouhi  was featured in Technology Century with Michael F. Cooper, PE, FESD, the recipient of the Harold Slaight Ellington Leadership Award, who donated award money back to the University.


January 25, 2012