Research News

Michigan State University alumnus David F. Spalding, a 1967 mechanical engineering graduate, has made a transformative $10 million leadership gift to accelerate the Leinweber Center for Engineering and Digital Innovation, a facility designed to prepare Spartans to lead at the intersection of technology, creativity and impact.

Michigan State University announced a transformative $50 million commitment from the Leinweber Foundation to establish the Leinweber Center for Engineering and Digital Innovation, a landmark investment that will accelerate MSU’s leadership in education, research and workforce development across Michigan and beyond.

With all eyes and headlights focused on the Detroit Auto Show this week, Michigan State University President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., sat down with former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for a fireside chat about the future of electric vehicle, or EV, research, government partnerships and university research during Media and Industry days.

Agriculture in space? Narendra Das, an associate professor of biosystems engineering in MSU’s College of Engineering, helped build a new tool for space that farms on Earth will benefit from, too.

As the American Southwest gets hotter and drier, its dwindling rivers are leaving the region’s vast network of reservoirs struggling to keep up.

Five from the College of Engineering have received among the highest honors presented to faculty members at Michigan State University. The awards recognize outstanding faculty members for research that enhances MSU’s intellectual prominence nationally and globally.

Corrugated drainage pipes are vital for agricultural operations, but they pose a challenge: it’s difficult to identify problems because they’re underground. To address this, Xiaobo Tan, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University, and his team took inspiration from worms to create robots that easily maneuver through the pipes.

From fueling electric vehicles to stabilizing renewable grids, the world’s demand for safe, high-capacity energy storage keeps rising. Ruigang Wang in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University is tackling that challenge by rethinking how batteries themselves are built.

What if we could embed expert-level intelligence into devices like smartphones, enabling built-in microphones to “see under the hood” of complex systems?

David Hickey, a researcher at Michigan State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).