Research News

Each year, the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, awards grants to "early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education." The following story is part of a series highlighting Michigan State University's recipients of NSF's 2021 CAREER grant awards.

Ahmed Naguib, professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will travel to Germany to research a cutting-edge diagnostic technique in fluid mechanics. The research seeks to reduce fuel consumption and carbon footprints in power generation.

Spartan Engineers - including Professor Xiaobo Tan and Nelson Sepúlveda from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - are among the MSU researchers harnessing the natural instincts of sea lamprey in attempts to control them and protect the Great Lakes.

Michigan State University will be home to a new Industrial Assessment Center, or IAC, where faculty, staff and students will work with Michigan companies to save money, improve energy efficiency and shrink carbon footprints.

Back in January, Stavros Vakalis, a PhD student in the MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), received a highly competitive 2021 graduate fellowship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).

A Michigan State University research team will work to prevent pressure injuries from power wheelchairs with the help of a $550,000 Innovation Award from the National Science Foundation.

Michigan State University's Advanced Blast Chamber (ABC) is expanding what science knows about battlefield trauma - and now research conducted at the facility located south of campus has earned international recognition for an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.