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03-25-13 The Noisy Wolverines earn the right to compete for gold
The team called "Noisy Wolverines" made it through the first round of competition to be among the top 15 teams in the nation to compete in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge competition. They hope to take home the prize for best communication system design.
02-27-13 Revzen: Popular Science - Watch: How Cockroaches Are Helping Scientists Design Better Robots
02-26-13 Wind-energy programs yield engineering jobs
This article talks about what is involved in a wind-energy academic program, which is a specialty of Prof. Ian Hiskens. "Electrical engineers work with and design power systems, power electronics and control systems and analyze delivery and flow into the grid."
02-22-13 Cockroaches and robots: Reverse engineering the balance systems of animals
Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do. This new insight by Prof. Shai Revzen and colleagues into how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors understanding of human gait abnormalities.
02-14-13 Translating animal movement into better robotic design
Prof. Shai Revzen pioneered a method, called Data Driven Floquet Analysis (DDFA), which he is currently using to test scientific theories of neuromechanical control in animals and humans, and extract principles that may guide future robotic design.
02-05-13 Power Electronics at Michigan - Some research, teaching, and student teams
Engineering TV visited Michigan recently to talk with Prof. Heath Hofmann and hear what was going on in the area of power electronics. In three separate videos, Prof. Hofmann talks about his research, about power electronics at Michigan, and about the student team Michigan Hybrid Racing.
02-05-13 Lowering CT Radiation for Improved Health
Jeff Fessler is working with U-M radiologists to create high-quality CT scans with lower radiation in a much faster time frame than currently possible. Technology developed by Prof. Fessler and his research group is in use at U-M hospital. Watch the video to see his algorithms in action.
02-05-13 Predicting your risk of illness
Imagine a future when you could predict whether or not you are at risk of becoming sick. Prof. Al Hero is working to make that a reality with his research into the human genome's response to viral illnesses. Watch the video to learn more.
02-01-13 Hofmann: Engineering TV - Automotive Power Electronics
02-01-13 Power and Energy Curriculum: Engineering TV - video with Heath Hofmann
11-28-12 Juan Rivas Receives CAREER Award for Research in Next-Generation Power Electronics
Prof. Juan Rivas was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for his research project, Power converters with embedded passive components. With traditional methods nearing the end of their ability to improve much beyond their current state, Rivas will investigate new design techniques to dramatically improve the power density and performance of power electronics.
10-10-12 Bourne pursuit: Improving computer tracking of human activity
Prof. Silvio Savarese and his group have found a way to improve a computer's human-tracking accuracy by more than 30 percent by looking not only at where the targets are going, but also at what they're doing. His computer vision algorithms will help make cars safer on the road, in addition to various other applications.
10-04-12 Popular Mechanics names Jessy Grizzle as a top 10 world-changing innovator for 2012
For his work with the bipedal robot known as MABEL, Prof. Grizzle was named a Top 10 Innovator for 2012 by Popular Mechanics. One of MABEL's biggest feats was mastering the run - becoming the fastest bipedal robot with knees. Her successor, MARLO, just arrived at Michigan - ready to take up where MABEL left off.
10-01-12 Production Systems Engineering, Chinese Edition
Prof. Semyon Meerkovs book, Production Systems Engineering, co-authored by former student Dr. Jingshan Li (PhD EE:Systems 2000), was translated into Chinese and published by Beijing Institute of Technology in 2012.
09-21-12 Grizzle: Discovery News - Run! Top 5 Fastest Robots to the Rescue
07-05-12 Research by Silvio Savarese applying computer vision techniques to construction sites leads to best paper award and a new spinoff company
Prof. Silvio Savarese received the 2011 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management for research that applies fundamental principles developed for real-world scene understanding to the problem of efficient construction site monitoring. He co-founded the company Vision Construction Monitoring, LLC, to offer the technology to the construction industry.
05-03-12 Michael Hand Receives Tau Beta Pi Fellowship to Pursue his Graduate Studies in Control Systems
Michael Hand received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the EECS Department at the end of 2011, and was recently informed that he received a one-year fellowship to support his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering:Systems.
04-27-12 The worlds first two-legged robot with a trip reflex
The two-legged robot named MABEL can now recover from a stumble like a person, making her the world's first robot with a trip reflex, says Prof. Jessy Grizzle. The fastest bipedal robot with knees can now step up onto a platform that's in her path. She has no cameras, so she uses a sense of touch, so to speak, to keep steady footing.
04-23-12 Prof. Mingyan Liu Receives Best Paper Award at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
The paper, "In-Situ Soil Moisture Sensing: Measurement Scheduling and Estimation using Compressive Sensing," by Prof. Mingyan Liu and Xiaopei Wu (a visiting student), was named Best Paper at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. This research aims to monitor soil moisture over time using as little energy as possible while maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
04-18-12 Computer Vision Course is Part of a Groundbreaking Online Initiative
An open and free online course on Computer Vision co-taught by Prof. Silvio Savarese and Prof. Fei Fei Li of Stanford will be offered as early as July 2012. The course is offered through the education company called Coursera, founded in 2011 and dedicated to providing free online courses taught by world-class faculty from the top universities.
04-13-12 Robots Building Better Maps: for robots and other mechanical creatures
Nick Carlevaris-Bianco, PhD student in Electrical Engineering:Systems, is using a robot equipped with highly sensitive 3D laser scanners and cameras to generate robust 3D maps. These maps could be used in the future for autonomous navigation of vehicles and similar applications. [includes a video of the project]
04-03-12 $10 million NSF project to advance computer programming
Making computer programming faster, easier and more intuitive is the goal of a new $10 million NSF project, Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering (ExCAPE), that involves Prof. Stphane Lafortune and is based at the U. of Pennsylvania. Prof. Lafortune aims to automate the complicated, time-consuming and expensive software-debugging process.
03-23-12 Local students see science and engineering in action with MABEL, the bipedal robot
When students from the Michigan Technical Academy came to the University to discover some of what goes on in engineering, they discovered fun, football, and physics.
02-23-12 Prof. Jeff Fessler Honored with Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Jeffrey Fessler, professor of EECS, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology, has been honored with a 2012 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award for his sustained efforts as advisor, teacher, advocate, sponsor, and role model to doctoral students. Prof. Fessler is an internationally renowned research leader in computational medical imaging.
01-19-12 New technology allows CT scans to be done with a fraction of the conventional radiation dose
A technological breakthrough is allowing the University of Michigan Health System to be the first teaching hospital in the U.S. to perform some CT scans using a fraction of the radiation dose required for a conventional CT image. The scan displayed shows a dark spot indicative of cancer.
01-16-12 Prof. Raj Nadakuditi Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Prof. Raj Nadakuditi received a Young Investigator Award to support research that is expected to improve the quality of information obtained from sensors and sensor networks through the creation of improved algorithms to detect, estimate, and classify even weak signals.
01-11-12 Prof. Raj Nadakuditi Receives 2012 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
Prof. Nadakuditi received this award for the excellence of his 2008 research paper, "Sample Eigenvalue Based Detection of High-Dimensional Signals in White Noise Using Relatively Few Samples." The research has applications to biomedical signal processing, wireless communications, geophysical signal processing, array processing, and finance.
12-19-11 Prof. Grizzle Receives 2012 Bode Lecture Prize from IEEE Control Systems Society
Jessy Grizzle, Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering, received the 2012 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize for his distinguished contributions to control systems science and engineering. Jessy's work in nonlinear system theory has been applied to automotive applications and more recently bipedal robots, and has had a fundamental impact on the field.
12-12-11 Srinath Sridhar Awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship
Srinath Sridhar, a second year master's student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, was awarded a Rackham International Student Fellowship for 2011-12. He is currently a research intern at the Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. working on a computer vision based AR system for intelligent cars.
12-06-11 Sid Bao earns Best Student Paper Award for Computer Vision Research
Sid Ying-Ze Bao, an electrical engineering:systems PhD student, received the award at the 1st IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robot Perception. The paper was co-authored by EE:Systems master's student Mohit Bagra and Bao's advisor, Prof. Silvio Savarese.
11-17-11 Professor Emeritus Ted Birdsall Receives Silver Medal in Signal Processing in Acoustics
Professor Emeritus Theodore G. Birdsall was recently honored with the Silver Medal in Signal Processing in Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America, "for contributions to signal detection theory and development of coded sequences in underwater acoustics." He is only the second recipient of this award.
11-09-11 Ian Hiskens Presented with an IEEE Power & Energy Society Prize Paper Award for Best Paper of the Past 5 Years
Prof. Hiskens received the award at the 2011 Power & Energy Society General Meeting, held in Detroit, MI. The paper, "Sensitivity, Approximation, and Uncertainty in Power System Dynamic Simulation," co-authored by Jassim Alseddiqui, was written in 2006.
11-03-11 New Method for Building a Low-cost, High-Performance Electric Machine and Drive Could Result in Huge Energy Savings
Prof. Heath Hofmann will be expanding his impact on the field of electric machines and drives in a newly funded project supported by the Bosch Energy Research Network. The research could potentially result in huge energy savings due to the widespread use of these machines and the applicability of Hofmann's research project to these devices.
10-22-11 The Freescale Cup and EECS 461 (Embedded Control Systems)
Students in EECS 461 expanded on the skills developed in the course when they entered the Freescale Cup, a contest in intelligent car racing. It was a challenging and rewarding experience, and though they were up against more seasoned teams from China and Mexico they achieved first place among the U.S. teams. Go Blue! [with video]
10-20-11 Revzen: IEEE Spectrum - Watch a Robot Build Other Robots out of Spray Foam
10-18-11 New research program aims to make better sense of the world
A new 5-year $2.5M research program funded by the National Science Foundation, led by Prof. Demos Teneketzis, aims to address fundamental issues that arise in networked systems so that they can operate with maximum efficiency. This is especially critical as individual sensing devices are scaled down to millimeter size.
10-12-11 Research about a Resilient Sensor Network for Plants Recognized with Best Track Paper Award
Research involving the design of a resilient sensor network for use in a nuclear power plant was recognized at the 4th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems as a Best Track Paper award. The paper, "Resilient Monitoring System: Design and Performance Analysis," was authored by H. Garcia, U-M students Naman Jhamaria and Heng Kuang, Wen-Chiao Lin (EE:Systems alumnus now at the Idaho National Laboratory), and Prof. Semyon M. Meerkov.
10-12-11 Keynote speech makes an impact in China
Prof. Semyon Meerkov delivered a keynote lecture at the 2011 International Forum on Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Integration (VTI2011). Within 15 minutes it was translated into Chinese. Meerkov's book, Production Systems Engineering, is currently being translated into Chinese (available summer 2012).
10-06-11 Modernizing the Nations Electric Grid for Alternative Energy
Prof. Ian Hiskens will be developing the technology as well as a strategy that will allow the nation's grid system to accommodate large-scale alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power, through a $1.4M grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
09-18-11 Next-generation Systems Information Theory
Called Value-centered information theory for adaptive learning, inference, tracking, and exploitation, this MURI led by Prof. Al Hero has the goal of laying the foundation for a new systems information theory for next-generation autonomous and adaptive sensing systems.
09-17-11 Lindsay Allen and John Broderick Receive Best Application Award
Lindsay Allen (PhD EE:S '10) and John Broderick (EE:S PhD Candidate) received the Best Application Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), for successfully applying Allen's Anomaly Detection method to data supplied by Ford Motor Company.
09-07-11 Silvio Savarese Authors Book in the Field of Computer Vision
The book, Representations and Techniques for 3D Object Recognition and Scene Interpretation, "introduces major concepts in 3D scene and object representation and inference from still images." Prof. Savarese directs the Vision Lab at U-M.
08-26-11 Breakthrough: Researchers find wide gap in immune responses of people who did or didnt get the flu after exposure
Prof. Al Hero and colleagues in medicine and genomics are using genomics to begin to unravel what in our complex genomic data accounts for why some get sick while others don't.
08-23-11 New Techniques in Medical Informatics Lead to Improved Diagnosis of MDS
Research by Prof. Al Hero and colleagues in the area of medical informatics is leading to better diagnosis and prognosis of patients with serious blood borne diseases.
08-16-11 MABEL is now the worlds fastest two-legged robot with two knees
Jessy Grizzle's robot MABEL can now run, a feat that represents the height of agility and efficiency for a two-legged machine.
08-14-11 Gyemin Lee Receives Best Paper Award for Research in Machine Learning for Biomedical Diagnosis
Mr. Lee is a PhD student in EE:Systems studying with Prof. Clay Scott. His paper provides an automated process for flow cytometry.
06-23-11 Prof. Semyon Meerkov and Colleagues Author Book on Quasilinear Control
Prof. Semyon Meerkov co-authored the textbook Quasilinear Control: Performance Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Sensors and Actuators.
04-30-11 Student teams earn prizes in EECS 556: Image Processing
Two teams earned prizes in the graduate level course, EECS 556: Image Processing, thanks to the sponsorship of KLA-Tencor.
04-29-11 Prof. Wayne Stark and Changhun Bae Receive 2011 JCN Best Paper Award
A 2010 paper related to energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks by Prof. Wayne Stark and EE:S graduate student Changhun Bae was named the 2011 Journal of Communications Best Paper.
04-04-11 Al Hero Receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Prof. Hero was recognized for being an internationally recognized expert in the field of signal and image processing, an established leader in the professional community, and a distinguished educator.
04-04-11 Raj Nadakuditi Receives ONR Young Investigator Award
Prof. Nadakuditi will investigate the fundamental statistical limits of quiet signal detection, estimation and classification in the context of undersea signal processing.
03-31-11 Watch MABEL on Discovery Channel Canada - Daily Planet
MABEL's story starts at the 5 minute mark. Watch as Jessy Grizzle shows how his group's work has MABEL navigating the highest steps yet. Don't miss her new shoes at the end. Video
03-21-11 Al Hero Receives Best Paper Award for Research in System Feasibility Studies
The paper will be presented at the 2011 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in May 2011.
03-02-11 MABEL the robot to appear on Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel Canada is doing a documentary about MABEL, and captured experimentation of new walking algorithms live on camera. One of MABEL's new features is the addition of more "human" feet to better mimic the classic heel strike, flat foot, toe roll motion of human walking. The feature is expected to be out within a few weeks.
02-17-11 Hongwei Liao, EE:Systems Grad Student, Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Mr. Liao received this prestigious fellowship for his research in applying discrete control theory to computing problems, within the context of the Gadara project.
02-07-11 The Future Looks Electric
As carmakers scramble to hire engineers, according to a recent article in the Detroit Free Press, students at Michigan will receive the training they need to enter the field.
01-12-11 Silvio Savarese Receives NSF CAREER Award
Prof. Savarese will pursue research in the area of computer vision. He directs the Computer Vision Group.
12-01-10 MABEL walking over rough ground - Take 2
The bipedal robot known as MABEL is getting the hang of walking on uneven surfaces. Check out her first attempt she did pretty well, but then crashed and burned. Now she is navigating increasingly taller steps. MABEL walks on the balls of her feet, so her balance mimics a natural human gait. This is accomplished through advanced control algorithms, and results in walking motions that are more energy efficient and more agile than almost all other robots. [Watch the video]
09-07-10 Fessler: MyScience - Grant could enable higher definition CT scans at lower radiation doses
09-01-10 CT scans at higher definition and lower radiation
Jeff Fessler has received funding from the NIH to improve the image quality of lower-dose CT scans for diagnosing and monitoring lung disease.
08-11-10 Grizzle: The Auto Channel - Ford Increases Investment in University Research; More Than $60 Million Awarded Over Last 20 Years
08-11-10 Grizzle: MSN - Ford Increases Investment in University Research; More Than $60 Million Awarded Over Last 20 Years
07-14-10 Jessy Grizzle Named IFAC Fellow
Prof. Grizzle was named Fellow for outstanding contributions to nonlinear control theory and to applications in automotive and robotic systems.
06-30-10 Computer Vision Research Recognized at Innovation in AEC Conference
Prof. Silvio Savarese's student, Mani Golparvar-Fard, receives best paper award for research in four-dimensional augmented reality models and their application to the construction industry.
06-16-10 Grizzle: Detroit Free Press - U-M robot breaks leg
06-16-10 Grizzle: AP - U-M robot Mabel clears stacked wood, may jog soon
06-02-10 Grizzle: URecord - Video shows walking robot navigating bumpy ground
05-27-10 Grizzle: engadget - U-M's MABEL robot hits a stride, breaks a leg
05-27-10 Grizzle: semageek - Mabel, le robot bipde qui se casse la jambe
05-27-10 Grizzle: Robotics Tech Center - MABEL: A Bipedal Robot Walks Naturally With no Camera
05-27-10 MABEL's first attempt at walking over rough ground
Watch the video
Learn More about MABEL, the bi-pedal robot who is learning to walk over obstacles without the aid of eyes (sensors).
05-25-10 Grizzle: BotJunkie - MABEL Walks on Uneven Surfaces, Breaks Ankle
05-25-10 Grizzle: Fast Company - Sightless Mabel's Fancy Footwork a Giant Leap for Robotkind
04-29-10 Kevin Xu Awarded NSERC Fellowship
Kevin Xu received a fellowship to pursue his research in the area of statistical signal processing, specifically, "Inference in Dynamic Networks for Prediction of Epidemics."
04-24-10 Patrick O'Keefe Receives NSF Fellowship for Research in HCI
Patrick O'Keefe, incoming graduate student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his research in human computer interaction.
04-17-10 Brian Buss Receives NSF Fellowship for Control Research
Brian Buss, graduate student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his research in controlling glucose levels in ICU patients, using control theory.
04-13-10 U-M Researchers Win 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award
EECS Professors Anna Gilbert and Martin Strauss, along with Joel Tropp, have won the 2010 Signal Processing Best Paper Award from EURASIP.
04-12-10 Nadakuditi-New Scientist: Enter the matrix: the deep law that shapes our reality
04-12-10 Domitilla Del Vecchio Receives Donald P. Eckman Award
Prof. Domitilla Del Vecchio received this Award from the American Automatic Control Council, "For contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology."
03-16-10 Yong Long Selected as Barbour Scholar
Yong Long, EE:Systems PhD student working to improve the quality and safety of CT scans, was selected as a 2010-11 Barbour Scholar.
03-10-10 Amanda Funai Receives Margaret Ayers Host Award
Amanda Funai, EE:Systems graduate student working to improve the image quality of MRIs, received this award to pursue her research in Statistical Signal Processing.
01-05-10 Al Hero Receives Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award
Prof. Hero and his co-authors received this award for their important work in localization in wireless sensor networks, published in 2005.
12-16-09 Clay Scott Receives CAREER Award for Research in Signal Processing
Clay Scott received an NSF CAREER award for his research project, "Guided Sensing," to develop new methods for guided sensing of information.
12-08-09 Grizzle: Ford, U-M work on accelerating hybrid development: Metromode
12-03-09 Senior Design Course, Embedded Control Systems, Goes International
EECS 461, a course designed to bridge industrial and educational goals, as well as electrical engineering and computer engineering, is now being taught in Zurich.
12-02-09 Best Paper Award in Automation Research
Lindsay V. Allen, graduate student in electrical engineering:systems, received the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering with co-authors Kiah Mok Goh from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Prof. Dawn Tilbury for the paper, Closed Loop Determinism for Non-Deterministic Environments: Verification for IEC 61499 Logic Controllers.
11-04-09 Grizzle in Metromode: Ford, U-M work on accelerating hybrid development
10-22-09 Research Led by Prof. Grizzle Speeds Development of Future Hybrid Vehicles
Prof. Jessy Grizzle is applying his expertise in control theory to hybrid electric vehicles in a partnership with Ford Motor Company, and finding ways to improve fuel economy while allowing for optimal driving experiences. [Press Release]
10-07-09 Yong Long Receives Best Poster Award for Work in Medical Imaging
The interdisciplinary research describes a method to improve image quality while reducing patient X-ray dose in medical CT scans.
09-29-09 Ellersick Prize for Best Paper Awarded to Authors in Communications
Prof. Wayne Stark, graduate student Cem Tekin, and former UG student Steven Hong will be presented with the Ellersick Prize at MILCOM09 in October.
09-01-09 Sensing Sensors: NSF Funding News Ways to Monitor Infrastructure for Safety
Prof. Mike Flynn is leading a team of investigators in new theory and techniques for processing information from wireless sensor networks, with the goal of ensuring the nation's infrastructure.
08-13-09 Ian Hiskens: Part of U-M's $2.5M grant for education toward a greener auto industry
08-05-09 New Tool [Gadara] Could Eliminate Software Freezes
Gadara helps avoid the software freezes that occur when applications running concurrently begin to compete for resources. Computer Magazine featured this work by Profs. Lafortune and Mahlke in their latest issue.
08-05-09 Research in Flow Cytometry Receives Award for Best Original Paper
Prof. Al Hero and colleagues' new method for clinical flow cytometry, called FINE, employs manifold learning and information geometry. The article about the work was awarded for being the most original of the year.
07-17-09 Prof. Hiskens Receives Stim Money for Wind Energy
Prof. Ian Hiskens will investigate how to increase the amount of wind power that can be carried on the grid system, allowing for greater utilization of wind generation.
07-17-09 Hiskens: DOE Announces Nearly $14 Million to go to 28 New Wind Energy Projects
07-16-09 The Bipedal Robot MABEL
The bipedal robot MABEL is walking on flat land, and being prepared for running, and walking on uneven ground. New videos are available on YouTube.
Read more on Prof. Jessy Grizzle's website.
07-09-09 Ali Nazari Receives Best Paper Award at ISIT 2009
Ali Nazari won a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) for his work in multi-terminal communications systems.
06-18-09 Several EECS Faculty Receive HP Innovation Awards
Six EECS faculty are tackling four innovative research projects ranging from plasma science to software tools and data centers that have been selected by HP Labs to receive Innovation Research awards.
05-11-09 Hiskens: First Plug-In EV Conference Coming to Detroit
04-06-09 Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them
Prof. Robert Dick and graduate student Lan Bai are creating programming languages for wireless sensor networks that are easily used by scientists in various areas of specialty. [UM Press Release]
03-12-09 Dr. Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, talks about the future of cell phones
02-10-09 Prof. Hiskens named Vennema Professor
Prof. Ian Hiskens will present the lecture, What's Smart about the "Smart Grid"? April 2, 2009 in a public ceremony to announce his being named the Vennema Professor of Engineering.
12-03-08 Gadara: New approach eliminates software deadlocks using discrete control theory
Prof. Lafortune (L) and Prof. Mahlke developed a new way around software deadlocks with a controller that combines discrete control theory and compiler technology. [U-M Press Release]
10-29-08 Professor Al Hero Elected to IEEE Board of Directors
Prof. Al Hero has been elected to the IEEE Board of Directors as Director of Division IX (Signals and Applications). His official term of service will be 2010-2011, and he will serve as Director-Elect in 2009.
10-08-08 Jessy Grizzle Professorship Lecture and Reception
Please join us to honor Jessy Grizzle, the Levin Professor of Engineering, Wed, Oct 29 at 3:30pm in the Johnson Rooms. There will be opening remarks, a lecture by Prof. Grizzle, and a reception.
10-06-08 Semyon Meerkov receives Distinguished Faculty Governance Award
Prof. Meerkov received this award for outstanding leadership in faculty governance over a period of years, with an emphasis on Universitywide service.
03-13-08 Al Hero Receives Digiteo Chaire d'Excellence
Prof. Al Hero has been selected to receive a Digiteo chaired research faculty position in France. He will conduct research during the summer months on Distributed Active Networks: Sensing and Estimation, applied to both gene regulation networks and ad hoc communications networks. [read more ...]
01-26-08 Discrete Event Systems: by Stephane Lafortune
Prof. Stephane Lafortune co-authored, with Christos G. Cassandras, the book Discrete Event Systems, now in its second printing. The book is written for advanced-level students in a variety of disciplines.
[Read more...]
01-26-08 Analog Signals and Systems: by Dave Munson
Prof. Dave Munson co-authored, with Erhan Kudeki, the book Analog Signals and Systems. This book focuses on the mathematical analysis and design of analog signal processing, and is designed for second year electrical engineering students. [Read more...]
01-04-08 New Textbook: Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management
By Prof. Al Hero, et al. Prof. Hero is also affiliated with the departments of Biomedical Engineering, and Statistics at U-M. His research interests include: Statistical communication theory, Signal processing, Detection and estimation theory, and Tomographic imaging. [More info...]
10-09-07 Prof. Fessler Earns Faculty Recognition Award
Jeffrey Fessler's research in the field of medical image reconstruction is multidisciplinary and his collaborations have had significant impact across the University and beyond. Several of his algorithms have been patented, and some have transitioned to leading medical centers and to scanner manufacturers. [Read more...]
10-09-07 Jessy Grizzle Receives Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Jessy Grizzle combines a deep knowledge of control theory with an ability to develop practical applications in several areas. A case in point is his contribution to bipedal locomotion, an achievement that is considered to be a major turning point in robotics. This advance was achieved through a deep theoretical insight combined with practical ingenuity. [Read more...]
07-30-07 Prof. Jessy Grizzle Named the Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering, and Publishes New Book
Prof. Jessy Grizzle was recently named the Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering. Prof. Grizzle is an expert in the theory of nonlinear control systems. His current research focuses on modeling and control of automotive powertrain systems, and the control of bipedal robots.[Read more...]