College of Engineering
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July 20, 2017
U-M will consolidate ownership of Rackham building in Detroit
U-M will move ahead with plans to purchase the remaining third of the Rackham Memorial building in Detroit, including a parking structure owned by the Rackham Engineering Foundation.
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June 21, 2017
New $8.25M center to study next-gen, high efficiency aircraft
Airbus is partnering with U-M on a new $8.25 million joint center that will study computer simulation tools and techniques for designing and evaluating future aircraft.
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April 20, 2017
Unique hydrodynamics lab to get fresh look, new name
Regents have approved a $2.2 million renovation project to U-M’s Marine Hydrodynamics Lab, which houses a 360-foot-long indoor body of water that serves as a testing facility.
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April 20, 2017
New U-M robotics building named in honor of Ford Motor Co. gift
The four-story, 140,000-square-foot robotics facility slated for North Campus will be named the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building in recognition of a $15 million gift to the College of Engineering.
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April 17, 2017
Record-setting Rubik’s Cube installed on North Campus
A giant Rubik’s Cube newly installed on the University of Michigan’s North Campus is believed to be the world’s largest hand-solvable, stationary version of the famous puzzle.
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April 4, 2017
Renovated nuclear reactor building opens as world-class labs
More than a decade after the Ford Nuclear Reactor shut down for the last time, the building returned to life Monday as U-M’s new Nuclear Engineering Laboratory.
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March 31, 2017
U-M, Toyota Research Institute partner in $2.4M battery project
With a $2.4 million investment from the Toyota Research Institute, U-M researchers will develop computer simulation tools to predict automotive battery performance.
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March 27, 2017
CoE professor Dawn Tilbury to head NSF Engineering Directorate
The National Science Foundation has selected Dawn Tilbury, a professor and former associate dean for research at the College Engineering, to lead its Directorate for Engineering.
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March 17, 2017
Ultrashort light pulses for fast ‘lightwave’ computers
Extremely short, configurable “femtosecond” pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today’s electronics.
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March 16, 2017
Kota to receive 2017 Distinguished University Innovator Award
Professor Sridhar Kota has been selected to receive U-M’s Distinguished University Innovator Award for 2017 for his work on shape-changing aircraft wings.
