11/5/2025
A PhD student is helping next-generation batteries take a critical step
Alongside Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Lei Chen, second-year PhD student Jinrong Su is creating a pathway for advanced lithium batteries to finally break through....
5/19/2025
A team won a surprise victory at this year’s Senior Design competition
Assistant Professor Caymen Novak threw an ambitious project to her Senior Design team. It almost didn’t work out. Until it did....
1/8/2025
‘Healing’ batteries with ultrasonics
Two mechanical engineering postdoc research fellows have discovered a novel way to solve a pesky challenge with next-generation solid-state batteries....
11/4/2024
How organ-on-a-chip technology is changing research of human diseases
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Aditya Raghunandan explains how this technology offers a better platform than mice or traditional cell culturing for understanding the complex processes in our bodies....
9/4/2024
UM-Dearborn bolsters battery engineering curriculum with new courses this fall
Despite a recent blip in domestic EV sales growth, there are good reasons to keep the foot on the accelerator when it comes to battery engineering education....
7/26/2024
PhD student is helping pave the way for high-performance metals
Hossein Abbasi’s doctoral research is untangling the mysteries of gradient nano-grain metals, a unique material with some seemingly contradictory properties and dozens of promising applications. ...
7/3/2024
UM-Dearborn is infusing sustainability into its engineering programs
Part of being a great engineer these days is understanding the environmental and societal impacts of your work. But how do we train students to be holistic engineers?...
6/10/2024
Spring ’24 grad parlays research and baseball experience into MLB job
After working in Associate Professor Amanda Esquivel’s bioengineering lab, UM-Dearborn slugger Matthew Williams landed a gig working with pitchers in the Kansas City Royals’ biomechanics facility....
4/15/2024
Could we make food processing ‘smarter’?
UM-Dearborn professors are teaming up with Michigan State University to take the human guesswork out of modern food processing....