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An assistant professor at Michigan State University will use a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to develop novel algorithms and software to help computational scientists and big data researchers pare down the challenges of performing large-scale computations on massively parallel computer systems.

Michigan State University will share almost $3 million for developing a freshwater recovery system to extract clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

More than 70 civil and environmental engineering students at Michigan State University are getting real-world experience as they dig through the details of the plans for the new $450 million hospital for their senior capstone project.

The first 20 prototype infrastructure sensors installed in 2016 on the Mackinac Bridge, powered solely by vibrations from traffic, have proven their durability and performed as intended.

A professor of electrical and computer engineering is on a team of Michigan State University researchers working on a NASA-funded project that could aid future missions to Mars and beyond.

MSU Foundation Professor Xiaobo Tan has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Scholarship support for students participating in Women in Engineering was celebrated recently when Lynn Frostman (BS CHEM EGR '90) visited the college.