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Michelle Basham (left), Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Research Assistant, shows CEE Undergrads principles on soil displacement inside the Environmental And Water Resources Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. on Friday January 25, 2019.
Many labs inside the EWRE were part of CEE's open house which was geared towards undergraduate CEE majors, and undeclared CoE freshmen.
The main motivation for this event was feedback from the CEE undergraduates who felt like there was a divide in the department between undergraduate coursework and faculty/graduate research.
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Wesleyan welcomed 162 graduate students to campus this fall, of which 60 are new.
The new international graduate students hail from Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, Nepal, Chile, and Turkey.
Graduate students gathered with faculty advisors for a welcome picnic on Aug 27. (Photos by Prekshaw Sreewastav '21)
Philip Vu, biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, uses an ultrasound wand on Joe Hamilton, an upper-limb amputee from Flint, Mich., with Alex Vaskov, robotics Ph.D. candidate, monitoring the live feed in a lab at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on August 9, 2018 for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Joseph Groele, NERS Graduate Student Research Assistant, sets up a plasma water jet set up inside NERS Professor John Foster's lab at the Cooley Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI on February 6, 2020.
Low temperature plasma efficiently uses energetic electrons to drive a reactive mix of hydroxyl radical, ozone, UV as well as ultrasound shockwaves dosing the water in a reactive species that shatters the PFAS molecules. Foster’s set up with plasma exposes the contaminated water to high temperatures upward to several thousands of degrees from repetitive bursts of plasma over a short period of time completely disassociating any trace of PFAS in the water sample.
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Using a commercially available DJI Phantom 3 drone instrumented with standard optical cameras and a third-party infrared camera, Cassandra Champagne (left), Graduate Student Research Assistant in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chenghang Liu, Civil Engineering Undergrad autonomously collect optical imagery, infrared imagery, and methane concentration data in a fraction of the time it takes for someone to manually walk around the landfill in Midland, MI. on October 16, 2018.
The drones can generate extremely accurate 3-D models of the landfill that can track increased biodegradation activity as well as monitor the settlement of the landfill over time.
Methane gas (CH4) is generated in landfills through the anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion of the buried waste and is estimated by the EPA to be 28-36 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere because it is that much more efficient at trapping heat in the ozone.
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Juan Lopez, MSE Post-Doc, engineers magnetic transitions in ferromagnetic semiconductors in the H.H. Dow Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on June 21, 2019.
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Joe Hamilton, an upper-limb amputee from Flint, Mich., talks to Philip Vu, biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, in a lab at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on August 9, 2018 for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Elizabeth Callison (left), Graduate Student Research Assistant at Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering tests the drag characteristics of biofilm (the green slime that grows on the bottom of ship hulls) along with Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Assistant Josh Parmet inside the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory at 1085 S. University Ave. in Ann Arbor, MI. on Thursday March 7, 2019.
Using a laser line scanner, Callison and Parmet can get the profile of the biofilm which later will be used to print a 3D rigid replica to test the differences between biofilm that can flutter and move as opposed to a rigid one.
With this information, Callison hopes to show what proportion of the drag of biofilm comes from its compliance (ability to move). This would be useful to be able to tell at what point it is necessary to clean a ship hull from biofilm so that it would still preform well, i.e., continue to reach its top speed, and less fuel consumption.
Photograph by Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing.
Christina Reynolds, Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Research Assistant (right) prepares a large-scale apparatus connected to the tailpipe of a heavy-duty tractor-trailer during vehicle certification testing at the EPA's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, MI. on May 16, 2019.
Tailpipe exhaust is filtered through a desiccant to remove water and then an adsorbent to remove carbon dioxide. The result is a cleaner exhaust of primarily nitrogen gas.
Reynolds, with direction from CEE Professor Christian Lastoskie, has partnered with the EPA and has scaled her project from bench testing at ~1 gram to proof-of-concept testing at 1/8th of full-scale, or about 25 kilograms of adsorbent material.
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Graduate students present their research at the Three-Minute Challenge, sponsored by Colorado State University's Vice President for Research. February 10, 2020
Tian Xia, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Fellow and Graduate Student, monitors the methane levels coming out of a pig holding pen before setting up a lab-scale non-thermal plasma device that has previously been proven to achieve greater than 99% inactivation of an airborne viral surrogate, MS2 phage, a virus that infects E.coli bacteria at the Barton Farms family pig farm in Homer, MI on Monday, February 11, 2019.
The objective is to design and construct a larger, pilot-scale unit whose size, capacity, and design flexibility will allow it to be used for in vivo testing with live animals in either an actual farm environment (e.g. pork or poultry production facilities) or the
more controlled conditions of an animal testing laboratory.
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Sumit Bhatnagar, a PhD student in chemical engineering, inspects and analyzes tumor cells used in his research developing a diagnostic screening pill for breast cancer and other diseases at the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex in Ann Arbor, MI on March 13, 2018.
The pill would contain a fluorescent imaging agent connected to a targeting molecule that binds to cancerous cells in breast tissue, in order to make earlier and more accurate breast cancer diagnoses. The research is under the direction of Greg Thurber, an assistant professor in chemical engineering.
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Nick Schott, BME Graduate Student Research Assistant, develops injectable cell clusters that create micro-climates accelerating bone regeneration inside lab 2453 at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building on July 19, 2019 in Ann Arbor, MI.
Expanded and primed progenitor cells, taken from bone marrow or fat tissues, are encased with biomaterials that give cues to regenerate bone more quickly than untreated cells.
The project, developed by BME Professor Jan Stegemann and lightheartedly called "bone spackle" envisions a scenario where you could use cells from other people and have a ready to use, off the shelf bone filling product primed to regenerate bone inside any body.
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DVM/PhD Student, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, August 16, 2021
Joe Hamilton, an upper-limb amputee from Flint, Mich., participates in a proprioception test conducted by Philip Vu, biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, in a lab at the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on August 9, 2018 for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Ann Laidlaw, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and Philip Vu, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, use ultrasound to locate and image eight electrodes recently implanted in the arm of Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., during a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on June 13, 2019, for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Philip Vu, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, and Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., look at live EMG signals from recently implanted electrodes in Sussex's arm during a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on November 29, 2018, for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Alex Vaskov, robotics Ph.D. candidate, Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., look at parameters for a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on November 29, 2018, after Sussex recently had electrodes implanted in her arm for an advanced prosthetics study at the University of Michigan.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Jubilee Adeoye, Environmental Engineering PhD Student, works in the EWRE Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on December 5, 2018.
Adele uses novel cementitious materials for enhanced wellborn sealing for geologic sequestration of CO2.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
A plasma thruster by the MAISE student group at Tech Takeover on Ingalls Mall in Ann Arbor, MI on September 21, 2018.
The event was hosted before a live screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey and showcased the U-M Robotics Institute and a panel discussing the technology and implications of the film.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Jacqueline Hannan, a PhD student in industrial and operations engineering, demonstrates walking with a lower-body exoskeleton at the Engineering Research Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
This is part of Man I (Maggie) Wu’s research. Wu, a PhD student in robotics, said the purpose of the investigations is to learn how people respond to lower-body exoskeletons. Specifically, she’s interested in times when the exoskeleton makes an error. The users' responses will then inform the development of future exoskeleton controllers to support human-exoskeleton coordination and fluency.
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Karanvir Panesar, a PhD student in industrial and operations engineering, studying how operators manage frequent and nested interruptions in single-operator multi-agent environments in the lab together at the Industrial and Operations Engineering Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
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Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., operates a Touch Bionics I-LIMB prosthetic hand as Alex Vaskov, robotics Ph.D. candidate, looks on during a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on June 13, 2019, for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Ahmet Emrehan Emre, a biomedical engineering PhD candidate, casts a manganese oxide slurry onto a sheet of aluminum foil to serve as the cathode of a prototype structural battery in the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex in Ann Arbor, MI on December 21, 2018.
This work is part of a research project led by Nicholas Kotov, the Joseph B and Florence V Cejka Professor of Engineering at U-M. Their team has created a prototype of a zinc structural battery that uses a cartilage-like material as a solid electrolyte, which could be integrated into the structural components of aircraft, cars, and many other vehicles or devices where weight and efficiency are a concern.
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On Thursday July 26, 2018, outside the NAME building at 2600 Draper Drive in Ann Arbor Michigan, NAME Graduate Student Research Assistant James Coller takes time to scrub down the lidar as well as other localization and mapping technologies collected on his team's research vehicle.
Professor Ryan Eustice's group researches simultaneous localization and mapping for mobile robotics using visual perception, underwater image registration and processing, underwater vehicle navigation, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Team Michigan RobotX works on deploying their autonomous vessel off the shores of Strawberry Lake in Pinckney, MI. on September 17, 2018.
The team is preparing for the 2018 Maritime RobotX Challenge, a competition set in Hawaii every two years that hopes to advance autonomous surface vessel technology through a series of tasks including obstacle avoidance, object detection and recovery, and signal recognition.
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The Graduate Student Orientation is the only initiative to welcome graduate students and share with them important information. The event invites all graduate students (MA, PhD, Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma programs) including those studying full-time, part-time, or as independent graduate students.
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Gaang Lee, Civil Engineering PhD Student, speaks with residents who are research participants of Clark East Tower, a senior care housing facility, in Ypsilanti, MI on September 6, 2018.
Lee is administering a project as part of CEE Professor SangHyun Lee research group in which they track the varying stress levels induced by their physical environments. Participants wear sensors that track heart and perspiration rates, and blood pressure as they move outside of the facility in a variety of environments.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Minjeong Cha, MSE PhD Student, holds a gel made up of chiromagnetic nanoparticles that are a conduit for modulating light in the North Campus Research Complex on January 15, 2018.
The new material could potentially help expand use of magnetic fields to modulate light and be used in cutting-edge technologies such as communication in space, optical wireless networks, and sensing for autonomous vehicles.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
To bid farewell to the class of 2022, Berklee Valencia celebrated the commencement of the students in the following programs on July 4, 2022:
-Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration)
-Master of Art in Global Entertainment and Music Business
-Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation
-Master of Music in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games.
- Post-master's program
Photos by Tato Baeza and Vicente A. Jimenez.
Melina Bautista, CEE Research Fellow, collects water samples from the Ann Arbor Water Treatment Plant in Ann Arbor, MI on January 17, 2019.
Bautista collects the samples to determine the effectiveness of water filters that CEE Professor Lutgarde Raskin group works on.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Photographer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
The Honey Harvest was held at the Dartmouth Organic Farm in the upper barn by the Beekeepers Association.
Attendees learned how to extract honey starting with removing frames from a beehive to uncapping, spinning, filtering and have a chance to taste the honey! (Photo by Josh Renaud '17)
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Jacqueline Hannan, a PhD student in industrial and operations engineering, demonstrates equipment used in her project about interaction pressures occurring during positive pressure ventilation with newborns in in her lab Engineering Research Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The project is performed with simulated neonatal ventilation with an infant manikin.
Hannan said the aim of the project is to develop a sensor system to measure the pressures that occur between a ventilation face mask and an infant's face during positive pressure ventilation. The sensor system will serve as a research tool and as a training tool. Care must be taken when holding the face mask, as applying too much pressure has potential to injure the infant, while applying too little pressure will result in air leakage and insufficient air delivery.
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Andrew Gayle, a Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Assistant, and Alexander Hill, a Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Instructor, monitor a new reactor designed to produce ammonia for fertilizer without relying on fossil fuels.
The National Science Foundation has awarded U-M researchers $2 million to offset the required fossil fuels that are currently burned during the catalytic process of ammonia production with solar power. That method, known as the Haber-Bosch process, is now the largest contributor of greenhouse gases from an industrial chemical process - as much as 2 percent of global emissions.
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Kaihua Zhang, Graduate Student Research Assistant from Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, simulates marine structures in real world degradation while recording the crack length using UV light and a GoPro camera inside the Gerstacker Engineering Research Building at the Materials Science and Engineering Lab Room 1020 on Wednesday, February 6, 2019.
Photos of the crack are quickly analyzed by computer vision algorithms to calculate the length. The developed method can be applied to ships for monitoring structural health.
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Ella Atkins, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, readies to fly a drone at the first flight of M-Air, an advanced robotics testing facility for air, sea, and land, on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on February 20, 2018.
The facility is a netted, 9,600 gross square ft., four-story complex situated next to the site where the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building will open in late 2019.
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Quinn Burlingame and Caleb Coburn, both Graduate Student Research Assistants, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science inside Professor Steve Forrest's lab on North Campus Ann Arbor, MI.
With their collaboration, University of Michigan researchers has found a way to coax electrons to travel much further than was previously thought possible in the materials often used for organic solar cells and other organic semiconductors.
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Desmond Liu, Biophysics PhD Student, and Angela Violi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discuss the group's Blue Sky Project on nanobiotics in the EECS Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on January 8, 2019.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
An autonomous vehicle drives while it is being attacked over Wifi in the M-Air Facility on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on September 28, 2018.
Westley Weimer, CSE Professor, and his group of researchers have created "Trusted and Resilient Mission Operation," software that hardens autonomous vehicles to detect and repair current attacks, and prevent future attacks.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Drones are flown the first flight of M-Air, an advanced robotics testing facility for air, sea, and land, on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on February 20, 2018.
The facility is a netted, 9,600 gross square ft., four-story complex situated next to the site where the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building will open in late 2019.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Erin Evke, MSE PhD student, talks to a first-year Michigan Engineering graduate student at the Michigan Engineering Graduate Student Orientation at Hill Auditorium on Central Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on August 29, 2019.
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Elissa Welle, Graduate Student Research Assistant in Biomedical Engineering, prepares to sharpen an array that has four carbon fiber electrodes attached to it at Professor Cindy Chestek’s Cortical Neural Prosthetics lab inside North Campus Research Center in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday June 11, 2021.
The carbon fibers are originally cylindrical wires with a flat end but are made sharp through the heat of the butane flame. The rest of the array, composed of medical-grade silicone, a polyimide printed circuit board, four 50-um diameter wires, and an Omnetics connector, is kept safely under the water, which acts as a flame retardant. Once sharp, the electrodes insert easily into lots of different types of biological tissue - nerves, the brain, the dorsal root ganglia - that typical flat-ended wires cannot penetrate.
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From left, Alec D. Gallimore, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan greets Kyla McMullen, associate professor of computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida (U-M PhD 2012) at the Graduate Student Orientation in Stamps Auditorium on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, August 23, 2022.
McMullen received her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2012. She was the first African American woman to graduate from Michigan with this degree.
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Mohammed Islam, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, demonstrates use of a chemical sensor prototype in the EECS Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on December 8, 2017.
The sensor is able to detect a variety of qualities from a distance of more than 100 feet away and could be used to identify traces of drugs and explosives, as well as speeding the analysis of certain medical samples. Previously such a sensor was only able to be used in closed proximity.
Islam's research group built a laser-producing device that is able to send an infrared laser of various intensities through a series of different fibers that are connected.
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