February 2018 Media Report - A monthly look at the MSU College of Engineering
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.
Michigan's engineering talent shortage has caused the supplier of transmissions, steering parts, airbags and other auto components to consider restructuring job requirements and duties. Allison Corey of ZF had been at Michigan State University trying to build her company's pipeline of engineering students …
Crain's Detroit Business
MSU's Composites Vehicle Research Center, working with the American Chemistry Council's Plastics Division, is yielding "surprisingly effective results" in developing reversible adhesive joints, says Plastics Technology. University Distinguished Professor Lawrence Drzal and CEE's Mahmood Haq are quoted in a story that says MSU's advances offer "promising research … that could prove game changing in the auto industry."
Plastics Technology
Applied Research Associates, a New Mexico engineering and tech firm, is expanding to the University Corporate Research Park to advance autonomous research in object recognition, data fusion, control systems, and artificial intelligence.
Cision/PR Newswire
dBusiness (Detroit Business)
Markets Insider
The Peninsula
Twelve new Fellows have joined the MSU Academy for Global Engagement, including Yiming Deng and Peng Zhang of electrical and computer engineering; Weiyi Lu, civil and environmental engineering; Jason Nicholas, chemical engineering and materials science; Ming Yan, CMSE; and Mi Zhang, electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering. Annick Anctil, civil and environmental engineering, returns as an AGE Fellow following a leave of absence last year.
MSUToday
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science will host the 15th annual ChEMS Research Forum on Thursday, May 10, at the Huntington Club at Spartan Stadium.
Tech Century (Engineering Society of Detroit)
2018 Michigan VEX Robotics State Championship
• Flooding moved the 2018 VEX Robotics championship from East Lansing to Grandville.
Lansing State Journal
U.S. News & World Report
WZZM Grand Rapids and WZZM Grand Rapids
• 500 young robotic masters will compete on Sunday, Feb. 25, at the 2018 Michigan VEX Robotics State Championship games in Jenison Fieldhouse.
Cision/PR Newswire
• MSU will host 500 young robotic masters at the 2018 Michigan VEX State Robotics Championship on Feb. 25.
MSUToday
Technology Century (Engineering Society of Detroit)
EWeek celebrates science and engineering by giving the Spartan Engineering community multiple opportunities at networking, service, and fun.
Arend Hintze, assistant professor of integrative biology & computer science and engineering, wrote about teaching machines to teach themselves.
MSUToday
SciFi Generation
TechExplore
The Conversation
The American Center for Mobility, located between Detroit and Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti Township, is collaborating with Michigan State University and Texas A&M Transportation Institute to look at the impacts of autonomous vehicles on transportation jobs and future skills training. The study will look at driving-related jobs including professional truck drivers, taxi drivers and delivery drivers, according to a statement from The American Center for Mobility released Monday, Feb. 12.
AutoBody News
MLive - Ann Arbor Business
MSU faculty vote no confidence in Board of Trustees in wake of Nassar scandal
• During discussion before the vote of no confidence, other faculty, such as (Shawnee) Vickery and John Verboncoeur, a professor in the college of engineering, spoke.
Chicago Tribune
Mlive (Ann Arbor, Bay City, Clio, Fenton, Flint, Grand Blanc, Kalamazoo, Saginaw)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Elgin, Naperville and others)
Washington Post
• Robert Ofoli, associate professor of chemical engineering and materials sciences, addressed the Faculty Senate on Feb. 13 at the International Center. "We need to be human again … we need to change the culture."
State News
ECE professor Hayder Radha and ECE graduate student Daniel Kent believe that the "superhuman" sensors being created at MSU will join with other safety features to keep us safer in the future.
WWMT TV 3 Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids
Computer scientist John Koza of Los Altos, California, gave $2 million to MSU Engineering in 2014 and followed it with a $10.7 million bequest in 2016 to a program called the BEACON Center. A UM alumnus four times over who also supports engineering programs at his alma mater, Koza, 74, was a pioneer in genetic programming and co-founded a company whose computer systems operate state lotteries. "My future plans have nothing to do with this Nassar," he said. "The university has tens of thousands of people. It's inevitable that some of them are bad apples."
Detroit News
Alumni
Vytau Virskus (BS MECH EGR '75) has received a patent for his energy control algorithm, E-Flow.
State News
A three-time MSU Engineering graduate has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kettering University in Flint. Mark Thompson has spent the past 30 years as a professor of electrical engineering at the Flint school.
Kettering University news
Verghese Kurien (MS MECH EGR '48) is considered the father of the White Revolution in India by creating a modern cooperative milk industry in his country.
Newfolo
Incoming Spartans
Sean Colling of Berkley High School has been named an Evans Scholar and will attend MSU to study mechanical engineering. He is interested in MSU's automotive program.
Oakland Press
MSU Pride Points
• Feb. 5 - The College of Engineering Diversity Programs Office received the unit award for Excellent Progress Toward Advancing Diversity Within the Community at MSU's Diversity Excellence celebration on Feb. 1.
• Feb. 8 - Nature Biomedical Engineering selected work by Erin Purcell's biomedical engineering research group as a top 10 highlight for addressing outstanding health challenges.
• Feb. 23 - Around 500 of Michigan's youngest robotic masters are participating in the VEX Robotics State Championships on Sunday, Feb. 25, which has now been moved to Grandville High School due to flooding.
• Feb. 26 - Jiayu Zhou, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering, will use a five-year, $551,600 NSF CAREER Award to research large-scale machine learning on big data.