Research News

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).

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.

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?

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.