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Engineering program hopes to "jump start" teens' interests
2007-12-08 00:00:00 Lansing State Journal
Almost 200 students from eight high schools participated in the MSU College of Engineering's Design Day, which also included project presentations by current MSU students.
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Motorola Foundation Awards Two Grants to College of Engineering K-12 Outreach Programs
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Motorola New Release, MSU Today Article
Michigan State University’s College of Engineering will receive two Innovation Generation Grants from the Motorola Foundation.
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MSU to host FIRST Lego League tournament
2007-11-07 00:00:00 MSU Today
November 7, 2007 - Elementary and middle school students will be building Lego robots capable of performing specific tasks as part of MSU's FIRST Lego League qualifying tournament at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10.
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Brain-Injured Man Speaks After 6 Years
2007-08-01 00:00:00 Physorg.com
A brain-damaged man who could communicate only with slight eye or thumb movements for six years can speak again, after stimulating electrodes were placed in his brain, researchers report.
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Grant will help decode chemical reactions in the body
2007-04-02 00:00:00 University Record
U-M researchers leading an interdisciplinary team have won a prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation grant to build microsystems, which will help scientists decode the mechanisms that guide embryo and stem cell development.
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Engineering the heart piece by piece
2007-03-27 00:00:00 UM Press Release
ANN ARBOR, MI – Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack.
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Analogy of cochlea as resonator could lead to artificial copies
2007-01-09 00:00:00 Physorg.com
In attempting to construct an artificial cochlea—and faced with limited knowledge of how the living chamber works—scientists might need to look no further than a simple electronic device: a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator.
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New mathematical method provides better way to analyze noise
2007-01-08 00:00:00 Physorg.com
In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcelo Magnasco, professor and head of the Mathematical Physics Laboratory at Rockefeller University, has published a paper that may prove to be a sound-analysis breakthrough, featuring a mathematical method or “algorithm” that’s far more nuanced at transforming sound into a visual representation than current methods.
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Mandarin language is music to the brain
2006-12-12 00:00:00 Physorg.com
It’s been shown that the left side of the brain processes language and the right side processes music; but what about a language like Mandarin Chinese, which is musical in nature with wide tonal ranges"
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A more sound solution
2006-12-11 00:00:00 Los Angeles Times
An experimental 'hybrid' device may give many with partial hearing loss the extra boost they need. It's a new variation on the cochlear implant.
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Hearing Again
2006-12-10 00:00:00 The Star Online
Cochlear implants for people with severe sensor-neural hearing loss.
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Earlier the better for cochlear implants
2006-12-07 00:00:00 Sydney Morning Herald
Deaf babies and toddlers who are given a cochlear implant between the ages of six months and two years have a greater chance of developing normal language skills, according to Australian researchers.
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A Quick and Dirty Primer on Gas Chromatography
2006-12-06 00:00:00 teaching.shu.ac.uk
GC's are the second most common laboratory instruments (behind the analytical balance).This is a quick and dirty primer on how a GC works.
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A Better Liquid-Explosives Detector
2006-12-01 00:00:00 MIT Technology Review
The same technology used in TNT detectors in Iraq is being adapted for airport security to sniff out liquid-bomb-making materials.
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A Brain Chip to Control Paralyzed Limbs
2006-11-30 00:00:00 MIT Technology Review
Scientists are now building a device that records brain signals and transmits them to paralyzed muscles, potentially returning muscle control to severely paralyzed patients.
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Mass Spectrometer offers femtogram detection limits
2006-11-06 00:00:00 Thomasnet Press Release
Varian, Inc. today debuted a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS) capable of femtogram detection limits and a mass range up to 2000 Da to identify a wide range of compounds.
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Rerouting Brain Circuits with Implanted Chips
2006-10-31 00:00:00 MIT Technology Review
A new brain chip being tested in monkeys could one day reconnect brain areas damaged by stroke or spinal-cord injury.
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Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
2006-09-14 00:00:00 UM News Service
Scientists looked to ferns to create a novel energy scavenging device that uses the power of evaporation to move itself -- materials that could provide a method for powering micro and nano devices with just water or heat.
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Post-9/11, technology keeps us a step ahead
2006-09-11 00:00:00 EE Times
It's the answer, with a caveat, to the question that will be on everyone's mind today. But from a technologist's perspective, there are other questions to ask about where we stand five years after the 9/11 attacks.
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Boston Scientific admits stent risks
2006-09-07 00:00:00 Physorg.com
The U.S.-based Boston Scientific Corp. has admitted there is an increased risk of blood clots caused by use of its drug-coated cardiac stent.
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MEMS Update: What's Near What's Here
2006-08-01 00:00:00 Sensors
Researchers and development engineers exchange information on the latest advances in microsystems at the Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems workshop (Hilton Head).
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Tiny wireless Geiger counter detects radiation
2006-06-06 00:00:00 FEMA.gov and physorg.com
A postage stamp-sized Geiger counter placed unobtrusively in stadiums, subways, malls and other large public spaces could detect radiation and determine whether it's a harmful source, like a dirty bomb.
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Tiny wireless Geiger counter detects radiation
2006-06-05 00:00:00 University of Michigan News Service
A postage stamp-sized Geiger counter placed unobtrusively in stadiums, subways, malls and other large public spaces could detect radiation and determine whether it's a harmful source, like a dirty bomb.
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Sounds of innovation - A new implant could revolutionize hearing-aid technology
2006-03-13 00:00:00 The Michigan Daily
A group of University scientists recently developed a new hearing aid device which will allow users to hear a higher-quality sound than existing technology permits.
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New cochlear implant could improve hearing
2006-02-06 00:00:00 University of Michigan News Service
A ribbon-like cochlear implant developed at the University of Michigan could greatly improve hearing for profoundly deaf patients, and simplify insertion to help surgeons minimize damage to healthy ear tissue.
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New Medical Device Combines Wireless and MEMS Technology
2006-02-03 00:00:00 Physorg.com
Based on intellectual property from the Georgia Institute of Technology, EndoSure is the first implantable pressure sensor that combines wireless and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology to receive FDA clearance.
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The challenge of designing in-body communications
2004-10-26 00:00:00 embedded.com
How do you get data out of a human body? This fascinating article describes the power, durability, and RF challenges of designing an embedded system that "users" swallow.
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Livermore scientist develops handheld gas chromatograph
1999-04-05 00:00:00 EE Times
Conrad Yu has shrunk to portable size the gear used for real-time field analysis of gas and liquid samples. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer is turning conventional gas chromatography on its head with the portable unit, which can be carried to the sites of chemical-weapon or poisonous-gas contamination, hazardous chemical spills and crimes.
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