College of Engineering
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January 16, 2025
Eight researchers from U-M win PECASE awards
Eight U-M researchers have received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a high honor the U.S. government bestows on scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers.
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January 15, 2025
Six postdoctoral researchers chosen for commercialization fellowships
Innovation Partnerships has announced the funding of six new Postdoctoral Commercialization Fellowships, based on the strong commercialization potential of the recipients’ doctoral research.
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January 14, 2025
$5M to improve testing of wave energy, offshore wind
Devices that create electricity from wave motion and offshore winds could become sturdier, quieter and easier to test at near-ocean-ready sizes, with four new grants totaling $5 million to U-M.
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December 11, 2024
Robert Bartlett, Zhen Xu elected to National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has selected faculty members Robert Bartlett and Zhen Xu as fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
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December 5, 2024
Regents Roundup — December 2024
Other action items approved by the Board of Regents at its Dec. 5 meeting.
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November 14, 2024
$3M gift establishes Samir and Puja Kaul directorship at MICDE
Business leaders and philanthropists Samir and Puja Kaul have donated $3 million to support the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering. The institute’s directorship will be named for them.
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November 13, 2024
How to reduce energy waste in training AI models
A less wasteful way to train large language models for artificial intelligence, such as the GPT series, finishes in the same amount of time for up to 30% less energy, according to a new study from U-M.
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November 11, 2024
Accolades — November 2024
Awards and honors for faculty and staff from around U-M.
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November 7, 2024
U-M team gets $10M to speed up nanoparticle design
The European Research Council is investing approximately $10.1 million in a research team co-led by U-M to speed up nanoparticle design for these applications to help fight disease or transmit information.
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November 5, 2024
Student project still changing the world — one preemie at a time
When Grace Hsia Haberl was a College of Engineering senior, she helped develop the technology behind a non-electric warming device called an IncuBlanket.