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Assistant professor Luis Sentis’ Human Centered Robotics Lab focuses on advancing human-friendly robots that are flexible, safe and mobile.
Robert Middleton, Assistant Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering, adjusts the rotation speed of a newly installed ceiling fan with UV lighting in an experiment using a smoke machine and particle spectrometers to understand how many infectious aerosol particles others in a classroom are expected to inhale under various mitigation scenarios inside 1311 EECS on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI on Monday, May 17, 2021.
There's a lot we don't know about how these particles behave indoors, but a core conundrum is that while aerosols do not stay within six feet of their source, they're also not uniformly distributed throughout a room.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Eliza Banu, graduate student in mechanical engineering, teaches "Introduction to Engineering and Mechanics Concepts" to inmates at Elmore Correctional Facility as part of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project.
Greg Bogan (left), Columbia Energy & Environmental Services, oversees work on a telescoping camera platform designed by Washington State University mechanical engineering students Melissa Street, Jared Rixon, Ryan Breezee, Ben Revard, Gladwyn D’Souza, and Chris Mentzer. Two other students working on the project are not pictured in this photo.
As part of their senior project, the students are helping design a telescoping arm and camera system to take pictures inside Hanford’s underground storage tanks.
The students worked alongside mentors from the Department of Energy’s tank farms contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), on a budget of $10,000 provided by Columbia Energy & Environmental Services (CEES). They brainstormed ideas, developed design specs, ordered parts, and assembled a unit into a functional prototype that they tested at the CEES Test Facility over Thanksgiving break.
The design consisted of a riser-mountable platform with a 24-foot long telescoping arm that lowers a camera into the tank to provide better photos for inspecting tank integrity. The platform would be mounted on a trailer, taken from farm to farm, and could even be improved to conduct routine tank-integrity inspections.
Yi Zheng, a mechanical engineering research fellow, and Jianping Fu, associate professor of mechanical engineering, examine a microfluidic chip developed in Fu’s lab at the University of Michigan. On the chip, stem cells organize into embryo-like structures for the purpose of studying early human development.
The system can reliably produce the structures needed to help investigate important questions in maternal and child health, such as: What chemicals pose risks to developing embryos, and what causes certain birth defects and multiple miscarriages?
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering
High school students attending the UM Engineering Camp, sponsored by Mechanical Engineering and the CMSE, construct and launch air rockets at Brevard Hall. Photo by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss Communications
Il s’agit d’un détail de l'une des machines-outils qui servaient à l’usinage de pièces destinées à la construction navale à l’arsenal de Brest. Ces machines sont exposées dans la salle dite « Place des Machines » de l’immense Atelier des Capucins.
This is a detail of one of the machine tools used for the machining of parts intended for shipbuilding at the Brest dockyard. These machines are exhibited in the "Place des Machines" exhibition hall of the huge “Capucins Workshop”.
Coast Guard Academy cadets conduct their daily academic routine in McAllister Hall on campus, Feb. 9, 2018.
Several students work in the mechanical engineering lab and others get advice from professors.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin
A particle spectrometer is set up near a newly installed ceiling fan with UV lighting to better understand how many infectious aerosol particles others in a classroom are expected to inhale under various mitigation scenarios inside 1311 EECS on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI on Monday, May 17, 2021.
There's a lot we don't know about how these particles behave indoors, but a core conundrum is that while aerosols do not stay within six feet of their source, they're also not uniformly distributed throughout a room.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Area high school students race derby cars they designed and built during Engineering Camp. Photo by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss Communications
Coast Guard Academy cadets conduct their daily academic routine in McAllister Hall on campus, Feb. 9, 2018.
Several students work in the mechanical engineering lab and others get advice from professors.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin
Alexander Hill, a Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Instructor, monitors a new reactor designed to produce ammonia for fertilizer without relying on fossil fuels.
U-M’s team is pioneering a system that harnesses energy from sunlight, reducing the reliance on temperature and pressure to bring the hydrogen and nitrogen together. It will pull nitrogen from the air using an air separation unit while splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen. Those gases will then be compressed inside the reactor to create ammonia at significantly lower temperatures and pressures than traditional methods. Each step in U-M’s process is driven by solar power, through both electricity-generating panels as well as new catalysts that help fuel chemical reactions with light, known as photocatalysts.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Robert Middleton, Assistant Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering, adjusts the rotation speed of a newly installed ceiling fan with UV lighting in an experiment using a smoke machine and particle spectrometers to understand how many infectious aerosol particles others in a classroom are expected to inhale under various mitigation scenarios inside 1311 EECS on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI on Monday, May 17, 2021.
There's a lot we don't know about how these particles behave indoors, but a core conundrum is that while aerosols do not stay within six feet of their source, they're also not uniformly distributed throughout a room.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Mechanical Engineering students present their capstone projects . Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications
Robert Middleton, Assistant Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering,and André Boehman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, set up a particle spectrometer to better understand how many infectious aerosol particles others in a classroom expect to inhale under various mitigation scenarios inside 1311 EECS on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI on Monday, May 17, 2021.
Different parts of a room will have different risk levels, depending on many factors, including: how HVAC vents affect aerosol trajectories, how effective windows or HVAC are at bringing in fresh air, and how many virus particles an infected person emits. Typical indoor airborne transport models do not take this uncertainty or variability into account.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Steven George, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Colorado, Boulder, speaks at the 41st Annual American Vacuum Society (AVS) - Michigan Chapter Symposium in the NCRC on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on May 25, 2017.
AVS is an interdisciplinary, professional society that supports networking among academic, industrial, government, and consulting professionals involved in a variety of disciplines -- chemistry, physics, engineering, and so forth.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Senior Producer, University of Michigan
Feng Yuan (center), vice president of China's Wuxi Institute of Technology (WXIT), presents a letter of greeting to PCC President G. Dennis Massey, left, on behalf of WXIT's new president, as Cui Fengjuang (right) translates. Yuan and Fengjuang were part of a four-member delegation from Wuxi -- along with Xie Jingquan and Wang Hao -- that visited PCC last week to tour the college's Building Construction program and Facilities Services Complex. The group also stopped by the Craig F. Goess Student Center and Charles E. Russell Building to get a firsthand look at how the buildings were designed. PCC and WXIT have partnered on mechanical engineering training since 2008.
High school students attending the UM Engineering Camp, sponsored by Mechanical Engineering and the CMSE, construct and launch air rockets at Brevard Hall. Photo by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss Communications
Yuxin Chen, Graduate Student Instructor and Graduate Student Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering, tries to verify lithium metal, solid-state batteries which use a solid electrolyte instead of the currently used flammable liquid electrolyte, inside Professor Neil Dasgupta's laboratory at 3658 G. G. Brown on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday May 7, 2021.
The University of Michigan is researching ways to harness abundant materials for battery production, or reuse older materials to relieve the disproportionate pressure placed on countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo for cobalt or the Philippines for nickel.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
Mechanical Engineering Senior Capstone project presentations. Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
2017 NSF CAREER: Three-Dimensional Unsteady Flow Interactions in Flocks and Schools
Keith Moored has specific interests in unsteady fluid mechanics, biological flying and swimming, vortex dynamics, fluid instability, multiple-body fluid interactions/boundary interactions, cell motility, active structures, tensegrity structures and cellular mechanics. He also has related interests in marine hydrokinetic and wind turbines. The approaches Moored uses are a combined program of theory, computations and experiments.
Moored's project focuses on extending our knowledge of the fluid dynamic interactions that occur in animal collectives: flocks, schools and swarms. The overarching research goal of the program is to understand the flow mechanisms that occur among unsteady, three-dimensional interacting bodies in complex arrangements. This will help scientists determine the sensitivity of biological networks in relation to overfishing, loss of habitat and the climate change.