The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognizes 18 faculty and staff members with awards for their excellence in service and distinguished contributions. Each year, faculty and staff are nominated by their colleagues, industry peers and students for the most prestigious honors the college offers.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognizes 19 faculty and staff members with awards for their excellence in service and distinguished contributions. Honorees will be presented their awards during the 2024 Engineering Awards event to be held later this year.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognizes 19 faculty and staff members with awards for their excellence in service and distinguished contributions. Faculty and staff members are nominated each year by their colleagues, industry peers and students for the most prestigious honors the college offers.

Dorothy Zhao, founder and president of Michigan State University's Biomedical Engineering Society, has been named a national finalist for the prestigious Marshall and Rhodes scholarships.

Compostable dog poop bags aren't as biodegradable as you might think, University Distinguished Professor Ramani Narayan tells Discover Magazine. Compostable dog poop bags aren't panning out. "Biodegradability is the most used and abused term," said Ramani Narayan. The word carries little regulatory oversight and leaves customers thinking their purchase has a smaller impact on the environment than it does. Story featured in Discover Magazine.

Michigan State University's Wen Li and Erin Purcell are leading the effort to use innovative diamond devices to monitor the brain's biochemistry for early warning signs of disease. The National Institutes of Health and an MSU Strategic Partnership Grant are funding the work, which includes preclinical testing of the devices in rodents.

The winners of the 2019-20 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Research and for the Outstanding Graduate Student awards in each academic program in the College of Engineering have been announced.

The 2019-2020 Graduate Student Award winners in the Department of Biomedical Engineering are Cort Thompson and Victoria Toomajian, who have been recognized for their outstanding work.

Ti'Air Riggins, a PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will advance MSU's ongoing research on implanted neurotechnology with a prestigious fellowship, an NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience Award.

The celebration may be remote, but the top faculty and staff awards in the MSU College of Engineering in 2020 stand as a testament to excellence and distinguished contributions even in the age of the novel coronavirus.

Each year, the Spartan Engineering community at Michigan State University gathers for a large luncheon to honor demonstrated excellence and distinguished contributions by faculty and staff members. Students nominate their favorite teachers, offering phrases like "dedicated educator" and "always willing to work with students."

Three faculty members at Michigan State University have received top scholar recognitions awarded by the College of Engineering.

A biomedical engineer at Michigan State University will use a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to improve the biocompatibility and performance of brain implants.

Two from the College of Engineering -- Yadu Pokhrel and Erin Purcell -- will receive Teacher-Scholar Awards at Michigan State University's annual Awards Convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The 2020 MSU Awards Convocation is set for 3:30 p.m. at the University Club in Lansing. Colleagues, family, and friends are welcome to attend the event.

Joseph Salatino will make Michigan State University history when he graduates as MSU's first PhD in biomedical engineering during advanced degree ceremonies at 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 3, in the Breslin Center.

The 2019 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium at Michigan State University showcased 300 poster presentations and celebrated both the Outstanding Graduate Student Awards and the Fitch H. Beach Award nominees during ceremonies March 21 at the Breslin Center.

Michigan State University has landed a $1.8 million National Institutes for Health R01 grant to improve brain implants - "electroceuticals" used to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, depression and traumatic injuries.

The 2018 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium at Michigan State University showcased almost 300 poster.

Engineers have been working for years to develop a more convenient way to monitor blood pressure. Now, researchers at MSU and the University of Maryland appear to have succeeded.

Medical advances in the use of brain implants are strengthening treatment possibilities for brain injuries and neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Unfortunately, using implants still has a major drawback - scar tissue that forms around the implant severely limits its function.

Jiayu Zhou, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, will use a $551,600 NSF CAREER Award to research large-scale machine learning on big data. He is the 14th Spartan Engineer to be awarded the prestigious recognition since 2010.