4/14/2021

A new car safety feature: better text for infotainment systems

A UM-Dearborn master’s student is investigating how things like typefaces, text size and line spacing impact drivers’ abilities to use increasingly complex dashboard touchscreens....
7/12/2021

Bike safety research is going ‘high-res’ with this new technology

A UM-Dearborn professor has developed a bike-mounted lidar system that could help researchers and engineers design new strategies for safer streets....
6/27/2022

After years of effort, why aren’t engineering programs more diverse?

Leaders in UM-Dearborn’s College of Engineering and Computer Science talk about why universities aren’t gaining more ground when it comes to recruitment of women and Black students — and some new approaches that could finally transform the college....
9/15/2021

Faculty and students react to their first weeks in the new ELB

UM-Dearborn’s new Engineering Lab Building is open and it’s definitely meeting expectations....
3/18/2022

UM-Dearborn’s Fred Feng lands NSF CAREER Award to advance bicycle safety research

With dangerous driver-cyclist interactions on the rise, Feng’s work is laying the groundwork for safer streets....
2/21/2022

Better curbscapes, brought to you by math

Assistant Professor Armagan Bayram hopes her mathematical modeling can bring order to a notoriously contested city environment....
1/26/2022

Wait for it...your flying car may still be coming

They could still be decades away, but a UM-Dearborn professor says urban congestion has sparked a new wave of interest in the most famous unrealized technology of all....
1/24/2022

Where virtual reality is taking us next

Whether or not the metaverse ever materializes, virtual reality is poised to change the way we live and learn....
9/1/2021

How can we support Black students in the early stages of their STEM journeys?

DeLean Tolbert Smith’s latest research is digging into the role families and non-classroom experiences can play in tackling STEM’s equity problems....
7/26/2021

How everyday products are shaped by social bias

Two UM-Dearborn human-centered design experts break down why designing products that don’t leave some people on the sidelines takes a more empathetic approach to engineering....