RE: Engineering Radio
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEngineering begins and ends with people. Michigan Engineers strive to foster a people-first approach to close critical gaps and elevate all people.
RE: Engineering Radio is a podcast from Michigan Engineering, sharing stories about research that builds and rebuilds systems — and the people who make it happen.
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The future of Line 5: Engineering under Lake Michigan
May 06, 2021 13:35 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave the Canadian oil company Enbridge until May 12th to shut down the segment of the Line 5 pipeline that runs along the Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the order. The question remains: how would Enbridge shut down the controversial pipeline and construct a replacement tunnel? As the deadline approaches, University of Michigan engineering researchers offered insights into how the company might go about doing that, and...
Sticking the Landing
February 16, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBIf all goes according to plan, plenty of eyes will be on Mars on February 18th, the day NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is set to touch down on the Red Planet’s surface. . Late in 2019, just months before the U.S. plunged into full-on, COVID-19 life, NASA tapped Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jesse Capecelatro and his team to help study the particles that are stirred by the landing of a spacecraft. The rockets that fire on a typical spacecraft landing kick thousands of tiny surface p...
Nanobiotics to Fight Superbugs
November 25, 2020 10:05 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBS1 E4 - The Blue Sky Podcast Evolution provided bacteria with a mechanism to overcome our antibiotics, and each time we introduce a new antibiotic, they get faster at becoming resistant to it. At the same time, it can take 14 years and billions of dollars to bring a new one to market. Angela Violi, professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a coalition of chemical engineers and biologists trying to change the game by developing antibiotics in a new way. They want to design nanopartic...
Carbon Negative, Dollar Positive
November 25, 2020 10:03 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBS1 E3 - The Blue Sky Podcast What’s more expensive—dealing with climate change, or not dealing with climate change? The Global CO2 Initiative is trying to break the trade-off by making carbon-negative manufacturing pay. The effort views the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a resource to be mined from smokestacks or even the air and used to make a variety of products from clothing and shoes, to concrete and packaging. The project aims to reduce the equivalent of 10% of current atmospher...
Remaking Water Infrastructure
November 25, 2020 10:01 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBS1 E 2 - The Blue Sky Podcast We may not like to think of our water as being filled with microbes but...well, they’re in there. And we could be recruiting some to help us out rather than treating them like a monolithic opposition to be roundly defeated with an abundance of chlorine. Lut Raskin, professor of civil and environmental engineering, leads a project that aims to understand and harness the water biome. And it’s not just about healthier water. Understanding microbes could clue us ...
Artificial Photosynthesis for Sustainable “Solar Fuels”
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBS1 E 1 - The Blue Sky Podcast What if we could learn from the trees to make a fossil fuel alternative out of carbon dioxide and sunlight alone? We could close the loop on carbon emissions—a critical win in the battle against climate change. That's one of the goals of Zetian Mi, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He's also aiming to make efficient, affordable ultraviolet LEDs to sterilize drinking water in parts of the world that don't have enough today. Connecting t...
Coming Soon: The Blue Sky Podcast
November 15, 2020 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.81 MBEngineers are problem-solvers. And humanity has some colossal problems. The Blue Sky Podcast is an award winning limited series from RE: Engineering Radio and the University of Michigan College of Engineering. We’re following four research projects in critically important areas of global consequence. Coming November 25th. . . Enjoying RE: Engineering Radio so far? Rate, review and subscribe to receive notifications when new episodes go live! Apple Podcasts: https://umicheng.in/Engineer...
Three Failure Fables
June 03, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBFailure is not an option….but why can’t it be? Too often “failure” is a negative. We’re conditioned to the binary options of either failure or success, but in reality, failure is a lot more nuanced. Join us as Professor Peter Adriaens tells three short stories—on failure, risk taking and the lessons learned to achieve positive outcomes. Peter Adriaens is a professor of engineering, finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan, working currently on financial innovation and risk...
Disappearing Pioneers
May 06, 2020 09:00 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBWhen women and underrepresented minorities make important contributions to science or technology, why do they later disappear from history? It’s a phenomenon that Lynn Conway, University of Michigan professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has documented since her own erasure. Conway was a driving force in the very-large-scale integration, or VLSI, revolution which triggered the expansion and impact of Silicon Valley, and is credited with making modern digital system...
Restoration
April 01, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBMind-controlled prosthetics—we’ve all seen them in movies, right? They feel like something we should already have, but so far they've been out of reach. The problem isn’t that scientists and engineers can’t make them. It’s that the crucial link between artificial limb and mind needs to be restored, in a way that turns that hardware into humanware. University of Michigan researchers are harnessing brain signals via a groundbreaking interface between man and machine that could give amputees ...
Launching Solar Orbiter
March 04, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBFor more than a decade, a global alliance of engineers developed the unprecedented scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. A team from the University of Michigan helped lead that journey. In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio we join them on launch night—a defining moment for them, for solar science, and for our future as a spacefaring species. Enjoying RE: Engineering Radio so far? Rate, review and subscribe to receive notifications when new episodes go live! Apple Podcasts: htt...
News Roundup: 2019 Edition
December 02, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBHey listeners! This episode of RE: Engineering Radio is a little different than what you've heard in the past. Here, members of the RE: Engineering Radio team sit down for a round table discussion of some of the coolest, most interesting, and most noteworthy mentions of Michigan Engineering researchers in the news—featuring bipedal robots, drones that help shingle roofs, and insight into internet censorship that could affect the U.S. Thanks for listening to season one of RE: Engineering Rad...
Solve for Life
November 04, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBDeep in the Amazon, teams from around the world collaborate to understand plant life in the rainforest. Now due to climate change and the rollback of forest protections, their work has never been under greater threat. Hear about Michigan researchers' race to unlock the equations that could save the Amazon—and us all. Enjoying RE: Engineering Radio so far? Rate, review and subscribe to receive notifications when new episodes go live! Apple Podcasts: https://umicheng.in/EngineeringPod Spoti...
Putting the AI in Aviation
October 07, 2019 09:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBSomewhere, in a parallel universe, there is an Ella Atkins who happily does her research on autonomy in aerial vehicles, licenses software to aircraft companies and generally makes airspace a safer place. In our universe, aerospace hasn’t been ready for her. In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio, hear how Professor Ella Atkins is persuading a field to face its future. Enjoying RE: Engineering Radio so far? Rate, review and subscribe to receive notifications when new episodes go live! Ap...
The Black Box of Human Development
September 11, 2019 18:05 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBU-M researchers developed a way to make large numbers of human embryo-like structures that have the potential to solve hard problems in maternal and child health. Batches of these structures could help screen medications for safety during early pregnancy, for example, and shed light on the causes of both birth defects and multiple miscarriages. In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio, Michigan Engineering's Kate McAlpine details this new method for studying embryonic development—one that a...
Growing STEM
August 05, 2019 09:00 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBToday she’s a NASA engineer turned CEO, but Aisha Bowe began her journey as a self described teen struggling with low self-esteem. After excelling in community college math classes she transferred to Michigan Engineering’s aerospace program, where she earned her bachelor’s and later a master’s degree in space systems engineering. Her tech company, STEMBoard, aims to help historically underrepresented youth play a role in designing tomorrow’s technologies. In this episode of RE: Engineering ...
Touch the Sun
July 01, 2019 09:00 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBThe Carrington Event, a solar storm that struck Earth's magnetosphere in 1859, was so powerful it knocked out telegraph wires for three days—and some subsequent solar storms have equaled or surpassed Carrington's magnitude. If these coronal mass ejections were to hit Earth today, they could severely damage our power grid, potentially wiping out electricity across the planet for months or even years. What can humankind do to prepare? In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio, we interview Jus...
Hey Cybersecurity, Change or Be Changed
May 31, 2019 17:49 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBHow did an Ann Arbor security start-up get acquired for $2.35 billion? The co-founders met in a stairwell. Jon Oberheide was a high school hacker, breaching security at the same company where Dug Song worked. Duo Security, the company they'd later found together, brought a punk-rock ethos to tech security and stuck up for the little guy. Following the biggest acquisition of its kind in the state of Michigan, both University of Michigan alums spoke with RE: Engineering Radio about the compan...