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The College of Engineering celebrated the opening of a new lab space for the Materials Simulation Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CHEMS) on Monday, Aug. 7. The lab has an open floor plan and is located in Room 1105 on the first floor of the College of Engineering Building.

Water management techniques like reservoirs, dams, and irrigation measures have improved water availability for many around the globe, but they can sweep water scarcity problems downstream for those who live there.

Mike Sadler was part of the Michigan State University College of Engineering for three years, earning a bachelor's degree in Applied Engineering Sciences (AES) in 2013.

Michigan State University co-hosted Road 2 Composites, an automotive and transportation workshop focused on scale-up, lightweighting, and high volume composites, May 16-17 in the Composite Vehicle Research Center (CVRC).

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers from New York University and Michigan State University have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough that the fingerprint-based security systems used in mobile phones and other devices can be more vulnerable than previously thought.

Lalita Udpa of Michigan State University is one of only nine women in the country featured in a story on "Women in NDT" in the March edition of Materials Evaluation. NDT stands for Nondestructive Testing, which is very similar to noninvasiveimaging in biomedical applications.

Two members of the Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed and constructed a constant volume combustion chamber for use in MSU's Alternative Fuels and Combustion Lab.