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....