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Engineering News
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UK’s Royal Society elects Stephen Forrest, engineer and entrepreneur
Forrest’s work underpins commercial fiber-optic communications and OLED displays, with an eye to future generations of photovoltaics.
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Perfectly imperfect: U-M Center for Complex Particle Systems harnesses disorder in nanomaterials
The center has engineered materials with intentionally disordered structures, leading to enhanced properties and easier manufacturing.
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Quantum made practical: U-M-led team advances in NSF center competition
The project aims to develop plug‑and‑play photonic chips that bring quantum‑light measurements out of the lab into field‑ready commercial devices.
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Campus & Community
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U-Michigan’s new online engineering master’s program focuses on data and decision analytics
New master’s program can be done in-person or online with ‘no career breaks, no commute, no compromise.
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UK’s Royal Society elects Stephen Forrest, engineer and entrepreneur
Forrest’s work underpins commercial fiber-optic communications and OLED displays, with an eye to future generations of photovoltaics.
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U-Michigan offers online construction engineering and management master’s
Institutional expertise in managing construction projects is not being passed along.
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Accelerating pharmaceutical advances with organoid technology
Madeline Eiken (PhD BME ’25) is commercializing organoid technology that could spur new treatments for disease and reduce animal testing.
In the News
MIT Technology Review
Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.
Popular Mechanics
The Conversation
Tech Briefs
Research
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Air quality: rainfall history matters as much as where the air came from
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Organic glass scintillators: A Q&A with Sara Pozzi
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Knee exoskeletons to relieve arthritis pain, preserve mobility
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Complexity isn’t subjective. The right amount results in new nanomaterial properties
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Better helium reporting to improve fission and fusion materials modeling
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Key structures to metallic glass stability revealed with machine learning
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Modeling particles reveals soil density impact on surface fault ruptures
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Silk made into strong plastic-like materials with 6G potential
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Robots and AI to help shipbuilding stay on track
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Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
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As health questions about Lake Erie’s algae bloom swirl, Michigan Engineers look for answers.


