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Counting snowflakes for better water resource management
  1. Counting snowflakes for better water resource management

    Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

  2. Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies

    Don’t call it a comeback.

    The post Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies appeared first on Engineering Research News.

  3. Immortal switches, quantum computers could stem from new semiconductor

    Material’s polarity, conductivity change with temperature.

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  4. ‘Digital alchemy’ to reverse-engineer new materials

    If you tell this computer program what crystal you need to build, it will design a particle that self-assembles into that crystal.

    The post ‘Digital alchemy’ to reverse-engineer new materials appeared first on Engineering Research News.

  5. Kirigami can spin terahertz rays in real time to peer into biological tissue

    The rays used by airport scanners might have a future in medical imaging.

  6. Prof. Louise Willingale creates extreme plasma conditions using high-intensity laser pulses

    Willingale’s research in plasma physics advances many research areas from spectacular astrophysical phenomena to cancer treatment to fusion power.

  7. By Cannibalizing Nearby Stromal Stem Cells, Some Breast Cancer Cells Gain Invasion Advantage

    Cancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis.

  8. Building community through clean energy

    From Long Beach, CA, to a Nepalese national park and world heritage site, undergrads Ashley Gee and Camille Burke came away with unforgettable experiences and a greater appreciation for how engineering can change the world for the better.

  9. KLA opens new R&D office in Ann Arbor

    The global capital equipment company is looking to harness the engineering talent at U-M and power a brighter future with tech.

  10. Huanting Huang improves accuracy of remote sensing

    Huang won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics for her work developing better electromagnetic models that calculate microwave interactions with tree and vegetation cover.