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(Versions for Android and iPad are in progress.)

Launched at the end of October, The Michigan Engineer magazine has been reimagined from front to back, inside and out.

• Cool engineering, science & tech news
  Not just for Michigan Engineering alumni – anyone who loves engineering will like this magazine
• Thought-provoking stories
  Examining the line where engineering meets policy, and where research becomes real-world
• Engaging design & photography
  A clean, modern approach to story-telling, with visuals from campus and beyond

Read the Aero100 "Throwbacks" and "Future Stories" for a glimpse into the departments past – and the industry’s future. And watch 100 Years of Michigan Aerospace, which captures the current faculty’s passion for working with and teaching the Michigan Aerospace pioneers of the future.

• Being a Woman in Engineering
  Students, faculty and alumni talk about being a woman in engineering.
  http://youtu.be/t6FP2qLYqo4?list=UUSvOdBJgMnTYsK-cZIGZSYQ

• Moving In, Moving On
  Parents and students exchange tender moments from move-in day.
  http://youtu.be/QMeGTccQ_28?list=UUSvOdBJgMnTYsK-cZIGZSYQ

Dimitra Panagou, Assistant Professor
Professor Panagou received her BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering from the National Technical University in Athens. Prior to joining Michigan, she was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Illinois in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Her expertise lies in exploration of the foundations and the development of theoretical methodologies and tools for control synthesis and analysis of complicated dynamical systems. Her research interests primarily are within the fields of motion planning, coordination and control of robotic systems with emphasis on multi-objective control design for complex constrained systems that operate in hostile and/or uncertain environments.

Venkat Raman, Associate Professor
Professor Raman received his bachelor of technology in chemical and electrochemical engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India and his PhD in chemical engineering from Iowa State University. He joins Michigan from the University of Texas, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. His research aims to improve methods of computational fluid dynamics to solve turbulent reacting flow problems while incorporating complex chemistry of synthetic fuels and alternate fuels. His research interests include statistical methods for turbulent reactive flows, surface catalysts used for pollution removal, parallel computation, and large eddy simulators.

Lonnie Shea, Professor and William and Valerie Hall Chair
Professor Shea received his BS and MS in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his PhD in chemical engineering and scientific computing from the University of Michigan. He joins Michigan from Northwestern University, where he served as professor and director for the Biotechnology Training Program. Professor Shea works at the interface of regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and gene and drug delivery. His laboratory projects emphasize fundamental design parameters for delivery of gene therapy vectors from biomaterials, applying controllable microenvironments for in vitro and in vivo models of tissue formation, and developing diagnostic assays for cancer research.

Brian Ellis, Assistant Professor
Professor Ellis received his BS in environmental geosciences and economics from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Princeton University. Professor Ellis joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan as a Michigan Society of Fellows Post-doctoral Scholar/Assistant Professor in 2012. Professor Ellis’ research aims to evaluate the impact of energy systems on the environment. More specifically, he focuses on the water-rock interactions that occur in these subsurface systems through a combination of experimental studies, imaging techniques, and geochemical modeling.

Henry Liu, Professor
Professor Liu received his BE and MS in automotive engineering from Tsinghua University in China and his PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Liu joins Michigan from the University of Minnesota where he was an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. His area of expertise is in modeling the dynamic behavior of ground transportation systems, with a particular emphasis on simulating user choices and the ramifications of those choices in regional road networks. Professor Liu is also a leader in the field of signaling technology for the control of arterial road systems, which includes classical control theory, in situ traffic sensing, and high-performance modeling.

Seymour Spence, Assistant Professor
Professor Spence received his BS and MS in civil engineering with structural emphasis from the University of Perugia, Italy, Laurea Magistrale. Professor Spence joins Michigan from the University of Notre Dame where he was a research assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. His research interests are centered on the areas of performance-based design and optimization theory applied to large-scale and uncertain structural systems. He is currently focusing on development of a framework for the performance-based topology/design optimization of structural systems subject to wind loads, with combined time-variant/-invariant uncertainties, as well as on the definition of methodologies and procedures for efficient CFD-based aerodynamic shape optimization of tall buildings.

Jia Deng, Assistant Professor
Professor Deng received his BE from Tsinghua University and his PhD from Princeton University, both in computer science. His primary research focus is in the area of computer vision. He also works on machine learning and human computation. In particular, he tackles large-scale computer vision challenges by leveraging big visual data – the images and videos made available by digital cameras, mobile devices, and the Internet. To harvest, understand, and harness big visual data, he develops statistical models, learning algorithms, and systems with humans in the loop. Ultimately, his goal is to build intelligent machines that can perceive and reason about the complex visual world.

Jenna Wiens, Assistant Professor
Professor Wiens received her BE in electrical engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and her MS and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She joins Michigan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was a research assistant in the Data-Driven Medicine Group. Professor Wiens’ research explores sophisticated computational techniques based on machine learning to improve clinical decision making and patient outcomes. The solutions she has proposed in her research address many factors associated with infectious diseases and leverage advances in a variety of areas in computer science.

Jason Corso, Associate Professor
Professor Corso received his BS with honors from Loyola College in Maryland and his MSE and PhD in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Corso joins Michigan from the State University of New York where he was an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department. Professor Corso’s main research interest is on high-level computer vision and data science, primarily focusing on problems in video understanding such as video segmentation and activity recognition.

Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor
Professor Subramanian received his bachelor of technology in electronics and communication from the Indian Institute of Technology in India, his MS in electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in India, and his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. Professor Subramanian joins Michigan from Northwestern University, where he was a research assistant professor. His areas of expertise include economics and game theory-based analysis of spectrum markets and social networks, inference in network games, information theory of queueing systems, design and analysis of distributed load management algorithms in large-scale networks, scheduling algorithms, admission control and interference management in enterprise wireless systems, applied probability, and mathematical immunology.

Louise Willingale, Assistant Professor
Professor Willingale received her MS in physics and her PhD in plasma physics from the Imperial College London. She began her career as a research assistant in the Plasma Physics Group at the Imperial College London. In 2008, she joined Michigan in the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences department as a post-doctoral research fellow. She was promoted to assistant research scientist in 2011. Professor Willingale specializes in ion acceleration, relativistic laser propagation through underdense and near-critical density plasmas, and uses proton radiography to study electric and magnetic fields generated during the laser-plasma interactions.

Viswanath Nagarajan, Assistant Professor
Professor Nagarajan received his bachelor of technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD in algorithms, combinatorics and optimization from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Nagarajan joins Michigan from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he was a research staff member. His research interests are in combinatorial optimization and approximation algorithms, with applications to logistics and data center management.

Amit Misra, Professor and Chair
Professor Misra received his BS in metallurgical engineering from the Institute of Technology, BHU (now IIT- Varanasi) in India and his MS and PhD.in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan. Professor Misra joins Michigan from the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a Lab Fellow. His research focuses on light-weight structural materials, radiation-damage tolerant materials, high strength and high electrical conductivity materials and other metal-based multiphase and composite materials, with emphasis on designing materials with enhanced functionality through understanding and control of interface and effect phenomena.

Fei Gao, Professor
Professor Gao received his BS in physics and his MS in condensed matter physics from Lanzhou University in China, and his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He joins Michigan from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he was Chief Scientist. He also held an adjunct professor position at Washington State University. Professor Gao’s expertise lies in an integrated experimental multi-scale computer simulation approach to study material behavior under extreme conditions. In addition, he has many years of experience in developing interatomic potentials and multi-scale simulation methods to deal with microstructure evolution in materials.

Brian Kiedrowski, Assistant Professor
Professor Kiedrowski received his BS in nuclear engineering and his MS and PhD in nuclear engineering and engineering physics from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Kiedrowski joins Michigan from the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory, X-Computational Physics Division, where he was a scientist. His research focuses on the development of computational methods in radiation transport and their implementation as practical design tools for engineers. He also has been working to develop a continuous-energy Monte Carlo Method to evaluate adjoint weighted integrals used in point kinetics models or perturbation theory.