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Traditional infrastructure design often makes extreme flooding events worse
  1. Traditional infrastructure design often makes extreme flooding events worse

    Massive 2014 flooding event in southeast Michigan showed why systems thinking beats local thinking in flood protection.

  2. Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures

    Foldable origami with thick panels opens a world of possibilities.

  3. Building Flint’s trust in its drinking water

    Even with lead service line replacement, the city’s water has issues that require public education.

  4. $7.5 million to predict and communicate flood risk

    Engineers, atmospheric scientists, psychologists and anthropologists team up to develop better flood predictions and ensure decision-makers can understand them.

  5. Video: Creating Equity in Midwestern Flood Response and Recovery

    A collaboration between engineers and experts from the U-M Center for Social Solutions to address inequity in flood recovery.

  6. Carbon capture, utilization and storage roadmap reveals technologies that are ready to go

    Concrete and construction aggregates could be carbon negative and dollar positive while sustainable aviation fuel and methanol could also turn a profit.

  7. Bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law: Engineers weigh in

    Two experts say the new law could correct historical infrastructure disparities.

  8. “Robot assistants” project aims to reinvent construction industry

    $2M project aims to partner humans with robots for safer jobsites.

  9. In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 19-23

    Highlights include the CBC and MLive.

  10. ‘Transportation is a form of freedom’: How to make it more equitable

    Why we need greater collaboration among transportation companies, cities, nonprofits and academia.