April 17, 2019
Allison Mills, Michigan Tech News
April 17, 2019
Patching up a heart needs the help of tiny blood vessels. Aligning dense vascular structures in engineered cardiac patches can help patients recover from a heart attack.
A team led by Feng Zhao, associate professor of biomedical...
Allison Mills, Michigan Tech News
April 17, 2019
Smart traffic is more than self-driving cars. One engineer is tackling these transportation systems with an early career award grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Changing lanes, upcoming merges, blind spots —...
Mark Wilcox, Michigan Tech News
April 17, 2019
Engineering students at Michigan Technological University face challenges on a daily basis. Recently, first-year students had their work evaluated by perhaps the toughest judges they’ll ever face — preschoolers.
Since January,...
Allison Mills, Michigan Tech News
April 17, 2019
Biomedical engineers cut post-processing steps to make electrospun nanofibers for wound healing and improve 3D-matrices for biological tissues. They speed up prototyping using identical materials.
Electrospinning uses electric...
March 28, 2019
Sam Wallace, Lode Writer
March 28, 2019
On Monday, several groups presented their research for the annual World Water Day. Students presented on topics relating to water quality and ecology. These topics ranged from studying the spread of water-borne diseases such as...
March 22, 2019
Stefanie Sidortsova, Michigan Tech News
March 22, 2019
A year ago, Bosch partnered with Michigan Technological University’s Mind Trekkers to spark creativity and imagination in K-12 students. The result? A unique program that addresses the STEM gap crisis.
Mind Trekkers, the...
Jenifer Donovan, Michigan Tech News
March 22, 2019
Carbon dioxide is a troublemaker. So it’s a good idea to remove it from power plant emissions — and it may have an extra economic benefit.
Until now, carbon dioxide has been dumped in oceans or buried underground. Industry...
Allison Mills, University Marketing and Communications
February 22, 2019
Is there a threshold an entire industry crosses when it does more harm than good? Michigan Technological University researchers set out to examine the question with numbers.
A new paper published in the journal Social Sciences...
February 22, 2019
