MSE News
Discover Engineering 2017: Breaking in students to careers in MSE
When Discover Engineering students walked into the Van Vlack Lab this summer, they were greeted by the following message sprawled across a big, free-standing whiteboard:
...Kim group developed a new way to make heat-conducting plastics
Advanced plastics could usher in lighter, cheaper, more energy efficient product components, including those used in vehicles, LEDs and computers—if only they were better at...
Goldman Lab develops nanoparticles that could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team...
Keith Bowman ('87) appointed Dean of UMBC COEIT
MSE alum and External Advisory Board (EAB) member Dr. Keith Bowman (PHD ’87) has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology...
Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship in Materials Processing endowed
This lecture will feature topics about or concerning materials processing, and the endowment fund will cover expenses related to the lecture.Summer school provides ‘incredible experience’ for educators learning computational MSE
For two weeks, June 5-16, 25 university educators became students again – taking notes and absorbing concepts like finite difference methods – at the sixth...
MSE a part of local - and nation’s largest - elementary Science Olympiad
This past spring, MSE Professors Katsuyo Thornton and Max Shtein captivated elementary students with the physics of light during four hands-on workshops held in conjunction...
‘Xplore’ activities show fun (and delicious) side of MSE
“Whoooooa, that’s so cool!”
“Can I touch it? Can I touch it?”
“Is my ice cream warm enough to eat now?”
On June...
Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: The Kirkendall Effect
A 23 year-old Michigan Engineering graduate student turned metallurgy upside downJoanna Millunchick named associate dean for undergrad education
Millunchick aims to create a more vibrant, engaging and inclusive community of scholarsProfessor Wayne Jones’ exceptional 39-year career honored at retirement celebration
The weather outside the Lurie Building on May 30 may have been bright and sunny, but the real warmth was inside as colleagues, friends and...
Goldman Lab: ‘Magic’ alloy could spur the next generation of solar cells
A new alloy could reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells called "concentrator photovoltaics."Azia Harris-Martin wins prestigious Rumler Prize
Analyzing water filtration systems for the Flint water crisis, marketing a diabetes sock, and starting a community girls’ club are just a few of the...
A Self-healing, Water-repellent Coating That’s Ultra Durable
A self-healing, water-repellent spray-on coating developed at the University of Michigan is hundreds of times more durable than its counterparts and could enable waterproofing...
Open-source Software Unlocks 3-D View of Nanomaterials
Your fingernails will grow four nanometers in the time it takes to read this sentence. A strand of your hair is about 70,000 nanometers wide....