MSU Mobility celebrates Mobility Week, a global initiative focused on innovation at the intersection of transportation and technology, taking place Sept. 20-27, 2025. This initiative brings together mobility and transportation technology experts from around the globe to build partnerships and identify opportunities to accelerate innovation.

The first annual Mobility Summit, co-hosted by MSU Mobility and the MSU Research Foundation, and sponsored by Consumers Energy and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME), took place on Aug. 14, 2025, at the Graduate East Lansing Hotel, located across from Michigan State University (MSU), in East Lansing, Michigan.

Team Polimove-MSU, a collaboration between Michigan State University (MSU), Politecnico di Milano, with the University of Alabama, took first place at the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca event on July 24, 2025.

The MSU College of Engineering has more than 40 registered student groups offering an imaginative array of opportunities and hands-on activities. One of them – the Spartan Autonomous Racing Club or SpARC – offers a real-life combination of Indy racing and sci-fi inspired technology.

The future of mobility will have a tremendous impact on the fabric of our everyday lives. Here on campus, MSU Mobility is advancing talent and innovation for all forms of mobility through our campus-wide collaboration across six MSU colleges, student engagement, research excellence, an unrivaled real-world testing ecosystem, and results-focused partnerships that catalyze the economic impact of Spartan innovations.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering will offer a rare birds-eye view into how students, faculty and industry partners are making an impact through autonomous racing by showcasing the Team PoliMOVE-MSU Indy Autonomous Challenge car.

A Michigan State University-based news service that provides coverage for newspapers throughout the state recently produced content focussed on artificial intelligence's potential impact on the farming industry.

Michigan State University is racing into the future by entering into a two-year agreement with Politecnico di Milano in Italy, and the University of Alabama to participate in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. MSU is the first and only team from Michigan to race in the IAC series, which officially launched in 2019 and brings together academic institutions and public-private partnerships to challenge university students from across the globe to invent and test a new generation of automated vehicle software — including advanced driver assistance systems, or ADAS — to operate fully autonomous race cars.

The relationship between society and mobility is a two-way street. All the ways and means by which people get around have profound impacts on how we interact with each other. At the same time, social considerations help steer the technology and infrastructure we use for transportation.

Michigan State University is home to nearly 50 experts, from a variety of research fields, shaping the future of mobility. That’s because improving transportation — making it safer, smarter and more accessible no matter how people choose to get around — isn’t a matter of solving one problem. It requires embracing complexity and working to evolve an entire ecosystem.

Richard Lunt, who is a national leader in solar technologies, will receive the 2022 Michigan State University Tech Transfer Achievement Award during the MSU Innovation Celebration on Monday, April 18.

Michigan State University researcher Daniel Morris is giving mobility platforms the ability to see better than humans. "Sensing for mobility is an intriguing topic for me," said the associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. "Humans accomplish it effortlessly, leading one to believe it is a simple task. And yet it turns out to be far harder than it looks."

Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and a team of scientists have created a "Trojan Horse" nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and stabilizing plaque. The discovery could be a potential treatment for atherosclerosis, a leading cause of death in the United States.

Tim Potter saw a problem and wanted to be part of a solution. "More and more bikes are on roads not designed for shared use, and an increasing number of drivers are distracted by smartphones and other interferences," said Potter, MSU Bikes sustainable transportation manager and avid cyclist.

Michigan State University is transforming its 5,200-acre campus into a live, connected ecosystem to drive mobility research and development to advance smart-vehicle technology and better understand the human element.

Four Spartan Engineers represented Michigan State University when SAE International and General Motors kicked off the AutoDrive Challenge with a workshop at SAE's Pittsburgh-area headquarters on June 5-6.