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  1. Q&A: Plastic to metal, steel to aluminum—the future of welding and lightweight vehicles

    New techniques for welding very different materials could enable better cars.

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  2. “Transformer” pinwheels offer new twist on nano-engineered materials

    Producing chirality, a property found throughout nature, through large-scale self-assembly could lead to applications in sensing, machine perception and more.

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  3. Best paper for a low-power ADC circuit for brain-machine interface applications

    Euisik Yoon’s team, led by Sungjin Oh, developed a low-power neural recording front-end circuit to interface with state-of-the-art neural probes.

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  4. Miniature and durable spectrometer for wearable applications

    A team led by P.C. Ku and Qing Qu has developed a miniature, paper-thin spectrometer measuring 0.16mm2 that can also withstand harsh environments.

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  5. Alum Paul Debevec honored with Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award for inventing a new kind of movie magic

    Debevec’s groundbreaking imaging work revolutionized the film and television industry, helping create the special effects seen in Spider-Man 2, Avatar, The Hobbit, Blade Runner 2049, Gravity, The Mandalorian, and many more.

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  6. Understanding a cerium quirk could help advance grid-scale energy storage

    It turns out cerium flow batteries lose voltage when electrolyte molecules siphon off energy to form different complexes around the metal.

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  7. Cyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy generation systems

    A new attack discovered by the University of Michigan and NASA exploits a trusted network technology to create unexpected and potentially catastrophic behavior

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  8. Vikram Verma talks the value of engineering and leadership to society as the 2022 ECE Alumni Impact Award winner

    Verma credits his distinguished 30-year executive career with leading technology companies, including Savi Technology, Lockheed Martin and 8×8 Inc., to a combination of education, leadership, and luck.

  9. Jesse Codling wins Best Presentation award for sensors that help protect these little piggies in their pens

    Known affectionately as “The Sh*tty Project,” Codling, an ECE PhD student, monitors the vibrations in pig pens to track the health of the piglets and predict when they’re in danger.

  10. Not hidden but modern

    U-M’s only Black American woman to graduate with a PhD in computer science and engineering is driving change within the University of Florida and scaling her influence with a podcast.

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