Dr. Tamara Bush, a Mechanical Engineering professor at Michigan State University, and biomechanics post-doctoral student Dr. Justin Scott have developed the world’s first Smart Wheelchair. Current wheelchair designs have a limited range of adjustment, often only allowing users to recline by tilting the seat back rearward. However, these designs are often inadequate to treat pressure …
A team of 11 Michigan State Engineering students has recently been funded by NASA to develop bus-riding delivery drones. What started as a project for their ECE 320 course has since transformed to a NASA-supported grant project when the team’s submission was selected by NASA for an $80,000 award from the Undergraduate Student Research Challenge. …
Wireless technology has taken over modern communication, making cybersecurity a critical research point in today’s society. At the forefront of this research is Tongtong Li from the MSU College of Engineering, who has been working on research to make wireless communication more secure in 5G and upcoming 6G networks. According to Li, wired communication is …
Michigan State University’s Chengcheng Fang has been named a 2022 Innovator Under 35 by the science and technology magazine MIT Technology Review. The magazine selected Fang for its list of “outstanding innovators who are younger than 35” because of her research’s potential to make batteries for electric vehicles run safer and last longer. In theory, …
Partnerships between universities and companies can foster powerful ideas. Capstone projects within the Michigan State University College of Engineering allow an opportunity for companies to collaborate and explore the talent Spartans have. The program also lays the foundation for relationships to grow between the companies and the MSU Mobility program and the MSU Innovation Center. …
