4/1/2024

Could you be friends with a robot?

CECS Associate Professor Samir Rawashdeh creates interactive robots for his kids to play with. It鈥檚 taught him something about what it might take to make human-robot interactions meaningful. ...
3/20/2024

Xuan Zhou鈥檚 UM-Dearborn homecoming

Xuan Zhou, the first-ever graduate of a UM-Dearborn doctoral program, is now a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He couldn't be happier about the life twists that led him here 鈥 and led him back....
2/7/2024

This professor is preparing for a busy election season of political deepfake detection

UM-Dearborn Professor Hafiz Malik has become a go-to resource for journalists debunking fake audio and video....
1/29/2024

This competition is hoping to address the shortage of EV battery engineers

The national collegiate Battery Workforce Challenge competition is giving UM-Dearborn and Henry Ford College students a rare opportunity to train on real EV batteries and real vehicles, while preparing them for in-demand careers....
1/22/2024

Why used EV batteries are poised to play a big role in the electric grid

Two UM-Dearborn doctoral students recently scored first prize in an international CO鈧 reduction challenge for modeling the 鈥渟econd life鈥 potential of used EV batteries....
1/17/2024

UM-Dearborn and the Department of Defense are teaming up to modernize the DoD鈥檚 engineering ecosystem

An interdisciplinary team led by Professor Pravansu Mohanty is helping the DoD adopt the design and data sharing strategies that have become the backbone of modern manufacturing....
12/13/2023

The perfect idea to ensure perfect name pronunciations at commencement

Professor Hafiz Malik and his graduate students built a new name reader that allows students to record their names in their own voices for the commencement ceremony....
6/26/2023

Is AI really a threat to human civilization?

Three UM-Dearborn experts say recent warnings that artificial intelligence may soon pose an 鈥榚xtinction-level鈥 threat are overblown. But we鈥檙e right to be concerned about other ways AI is reshaping our world....
3/20/2023

No, ChatGPT is not a disaster for higher education.

Three UM-Dearborn experts talk about the much-hyped new AI tool, the potential for cheating and why ChatGPT could be a valuable resource for educators and students....
3/8/2023

We鈥檙e not ready for the electrification era

To slash emissions and battle climate change, countries across the world are pushing the adoption of electricity-based technologies like electric vehicles and heat pumps. But Associate Professor Wencong Su says the grid is nowhere near ready for a lot more...