Five Spartan Engineers earn top professor honors
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.
Research Spotlight: What happens when you cross a worm with a robot?
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.
Research Spotlight: Powering tomorrow’s batteries with today’s breakthroughs
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.
Research Spotlight: A solution to end unplanned downtime
What if we could embed expert-level intelligence into devices like smartphones, enabling built-in microphones to “see under the hood” of complex systems?
NSF CAREER Award strengthens research in electrochemical methods
David Hickey, a researcher at Michigan State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Competition teams leverage community to achieve success
The William A. Demmer Engineering Center at Michigan State University reflects a commitment to providing students hands-on opportunities to turn ideas into real-world solutions.
How reliable is AI information?
While artificial intelligence, or AI, tools like ChatGPT might be great for helping you pick where to go for dinner or which TV show to binge watch, would you trust it to make decisions about your medical care or finances?
New MSU projects push research advancements
Four projects at the Michigan State University College of Engineering are helping advance research and creative activity in math education, biometric recognition, and cutting-edge medicine.
Ask the expert: Does my face replace my passport?
If your face is the key to your security, do you still need your passport to travel? In October 2025, the European Union began implementing its new Entry/Exit System, or EES, at airports, which replaces passport processing with a face and fingerprint scan.