October 2017 Media Report - A monthly look at what is being said about the MSU Engineering community
If you haven't seen the video created to attract Amazon's HQ2 to Detroit/Michigan, take a look: #MoveTheWorld. MSU has quick cuts at these time marks in the 3:35 video:
- Autonomous vehicle: 0:44
- FRIB: 2:05
- CMSE: 2:08
- 3-D modeling lab: 2:09
- IACMI: 2:37
• MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon is helping Michigan in its #AmazonDetroit bid. MSU says 70 percent of its engineering graduates stayed in Michigan last year. "The talent drain … was not there for our students, particularly in engineering."
Detroit Free Press
• More:
Crain's Detroit Business
WXYZ TV 7
• National and world media are knocking on the door of Richard Lunt, the Johansen Crosby Endowed Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, after Nature Energy published his see-through solar materials research.
Architect Magazine
Business Recorder
England Independent
EurekAlert
Facilities Net
Futurism
Futurity
Huffington Post
Laboratory Equipment
Mirror, UK
MSUToday
Nanowerk
Nature
Newsweek
NewsWise
New York Post
PC Magazine
Phys.org
Research & Development Magazine
Science Alert
Solar Daily
Sydney Morning Herald
The Daily Mirror
UberGizmo
United Press International
• Additionally -- Photovoltaic cells, currently in development by Richard Lunt, the Johansen Crosby Endowed Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Solar Windows Technology, will soon be transparent enough to be integrated into commercial and domestic windows.
UK Yahoo News
Huffington Post UK
• Colleges to partner on Willow Run Mobility Center -- Representatives from Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan Tech, University of Detroit Mercy, Grand Valley State University and Wayne State University, among others, signed a memorandum of understanding to form the academic consortium at the American Center for Mobility.
Detroit News
• Michigan universities roll with autonomous vehicles -- Colleges involved in autonomous vehicle research, testing and training, include Michigan State University and Oakland University. Three Michigan colleges, Kettering University, Michigan Technological University and MSU, are part of a three-year North American autonomous vehicle competition.
Detroit News
• IACMI and LIFT lightweighting facility opens in Detroit. Stakeholders heard from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Congresswoman
Brenda Lawrence, Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon, LIFT Executive Director Lawrence Brown and IACMI CEO John Hopkins, among others.
Cision - PRNewswire
Composites World
MSU Today
Nashville Business Journal
Plastics News
WorldNet Daily
The State News looked at MSU's funding relationship with the U.S. Dept. of Energy. "Years ago, the administration at MSU made the decision to become extremely strong in this field, quite frankly, to be the best," said Engineering Dean Leo Kempel. "You don't get these teams that are world-class in two or five years. It takes decades to grow."
State News
Other news in October --
Wei Liao, associate professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering, directs algae-based research to contain power plant emissions.
BioMass Magazine
BTN LiveBIG
Engineering Dean Leo Kempel was among the Spartans asked by the State News to reflect on the MSU - University of Michigan rivalry. People at MSU are nicer, he said.
State News
University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Anil Jain:
• About 20 percent of the population has at least one tattoo, even higher among delinquents, Anil Jain said. A tattoo identification system has huge implications for helping law enforcement with suspect and victim identification.
Prison Legal News
• Anil Jain is among those leading their expertise to Forensic Science Assessments todetermine if fingerprints lack scientific basis for legal certainty.
EurekAlert
Employers are so interested in meeting student engineering talent, they are sending vice presidents and chief engineers to MSU's move-in day to help schlep futons up four flights of stairs. Garth Motschenbacher said The Center for Spartan Engineering is doing things very differently too.
EducationDIVE
Ozy
Peng Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded the 2018 Young Investigator Program Award from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Fox 47 Lansing
MSUToday
ECE PhD student Xiao Zeng is the lead researcher on a cutting-edge technology that hopes to eliminate annoying background noises in hearing aids. Zeng is part of the research team of Mi Zhang, in electrical and computer engineering.
MSUToday
Three of MSU's groundwater pumping wells are out of rotation as a result of high radium levels found during recent testing, said Director of Utilities Robert Ellerhorst. If 5,000 people drank directly from Well 15 at its most contaminated for their entire lives, one of them would end up with a deadly form of cancer, said Environmental Engineering Professor Susan Masten, that's similar to the likelihood of dying in a car accident.
State News
ZF, a German auto parts maker, has turned to MSU Engineering with the goal of developing new methods for easing these future threats. Betty H.C. Cheng, professor of computer science and engineering, will work with ZF to address automotive cybersecurity and safety issues by creating a cybersecurity method to help identify, mitigate and/or prevent threats to automotive systems.
Engineering Society of Detroit - Tech Century
Fox 47 Lansing
Michigan Technology News
MSUToday
Public Now
Current students
Two from the College of Engineering - both applied engineering sciences majors - are on the 2017 MSU Homecoming Court. Colin White and Shuning Liu are featured as MSU celebrates "Uniquely Spartan" this year. They will be part of the homecoming parade on Oct. 20 and the football game vs. Indiana on Oct. 21.
MSUToday - Uniquely Spartan
MSUToday - Homecoming Court
State News
WKAR chatted with academically and athletically talented Lexi Baylis, mechanical engineering student and member of the MSU women's tennis team.
WKAR
Electrical engineering sophomore Byungchan Go from South Korea came to MSU because of his dream to visit Antarctica - which you can do through study abroad.
State News
MSU's amateur radio club has been around since 1919 and is helping with communications afterHurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September. President of the MSU Amateur Radio Club, or MSUARC is Reece Cole, senior in computer science.
State News
Computer science major Allison Mutka fits well into the participants at the Grace Hopper Celebration.
CNET
Chemical engineering senior Derek Metcalf challenged himself to eat 100 McChicken sandwiches in 24 hours. His plans didn't work out. The culprit: too much mayo!
Battle Creek Inquirer
Fox News
Lansing State Journal
New York Post
Newsweek
Port Huron Times Herald
The Daily Meal
WKNX TV Phoenix
MSU Alumni
Amy Decormier (BS CHEM EGR '97) loved chemistry and engineering as a student and now enjoys both even more teaching at Washtenaw Community College.
Washtenaw Voice
Jim Minneker (BS MECH EGR '70) is inducted into the National Corvette Hall of Fame.
Corvette Museum
Super Chevy
MSU Pride Points
• Oct. 10: Chadi El Mohtar (MS, civil engineering, '03) served as a member of the NSF earthquake recon team in Mexico.