Education

The researchers look to increase the diversity of the STEM workforce.

The textbook helps prepare upper level undergraduate students and graduate students to join the quantum revolution

An interdisciplinary team of faculty created a new introductory course in robotics that is designed for inclusivity by focusing on linear algebra instead of AP calculus, opening it up to freshman students with a broad mathematical background.

A new NSF-funded project will result in a unique engineering graduate course on professional responsibility

Continuum offers courses in machine learning, linear algebra, and coding for everyone from high schoolers to engineers already established in their careers.

With new courses at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels, Michigan ECE is training tomorrow’s engineers to be leaders in a diverse workforce in service to society.

Over 200 student instructors and teaching assistants who teach classes in the computer science and computer engineering curricula are being trained in inclusive teaching.

Javidi is a professor of ECE at the University of California, San Diego, where she specializes in Communication & Information Processing Systems and Networks, and works to empower engineering students of all backgrounds.

Jin, a chair professor of ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, describes his time at Michigan, and his career as an educator.

ASEE Prism magazine explores how linear algebra could level the playing field.

Pathbird gives instructors in the computational sciences the tools to write cloud-based interactive textbooks targeted to their own specific subject matter

Embedding coding into high school history class; building eBooks to broaden participation in computing; and rolling out digital tools for collaborative K-5 learning. Michigan researchers are taking on the big challenges to integrating computing into everyone’s education.

From his days as an online poker playing undergrad to his current role as a technology developer, Josh has discovered a passion – and built a platform – for online learning.

Covering foundations to applications, the new book by Prof. Stephen Forrest fills a gap in this exciting field

Computing is a tool for getting things done. Let’s teach it that way.

K-5 teachers and students throughout Michigan are building thriving learning communities online by using free deeply-digital, standards-aligned curricula and platform developed by the U-M Center for Digital Curricula.

Classes pioneer home lab kits, virtual lab presence, or taking advantage of the distance with a collaborative data project.

Discover Computer Science provides a basic background in all the skills a student needs to pursue further education in computing.

The gift will be extremely valuable as CSE continues to progress as a computer science powerhouse.

Kuck’s impacts in the area of parallel computing are an inspiration to all of us, and this award will carry real significance for its recipients.

When summer internships fell through, Michigan Engineering staff scrambled to make sure students would still have access to experiential learning.

‘When caught in a situation such as this, creatively and positively helping others is always an excellent endeavor.’

EECS 373 course instructors quickly pulled together an alternative final project that had students building robots at home.

Weimer is well known as a passionate educator, and for going the extra mile to engage with and advocate for students.

Prof. Terry was teaching Introduction to Electronic Circuits when the classrooms went dark due to COVID-19.

Daily webinars available for teachers interested in exploring the free customizable tools.

Class seeks software solutions to COVID-19 problems.

Winful has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear optics and the physics of tunneling, while also championing an inclusive department.

Tiana loves CS and considers herself a supporter of CSE. She shares her experiences, struggles, and thoughts as a first-generation student.

ECE PhD student Brian Raeker was awarded a Towner Prize for Outstanding Engineering GSIs.

Pradhan is honored for his dedication to students and commitment to improving education at all levels.

Balzano is honored for her all-around excellence in teaching, mentorship, and curriculum development.

Phillips is honored for his excellence in serving the campus community through development of extracurriculars, mentorship, and academic programs.

Kamil has shown a consistent and unrelenting commitment to bettering education in CSE.

ECE helped host faculty from Morehouse College and Prairie View A&M University to explore cross-collaboration opportunities, which allow students and faculty to experience the cultures of both Historically Black Colleges & Universities and U-M.

The authors argue that modern children already think with computation after being shaped by the prolific digital tools that fill their lives

Bertacco will advocate for and support university initiatives that create opportunities for action-based and engaged student learning.

McLaughlin spoke about how academic institutions can take better care of their students’ mental health while providing a fuller academic experience, as well as his love for U-M.

The workshop attracted students from all over the country and demystified the ECE graduate school experience.

Electrify hosted its first Detroit Tech Camp at the Michigan Engineering Zone this summer to give Detroit-area students greater access to engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Ten students from Ethiopia have completed a new summer-long exchange program in engineering at the University of Michigan.

For the past 31 years, Prof. Winick has helped define undergraduate courses and curriculum both at U-M and abroad while inspiring all to engineer their future by understanding the past.

Guzdial is a leading expert in the field of computing education, and was one of its earliest researchers.

The classes got to learn about cybersecurity, the physics of sound waves, and how to beam music a long distance like a flashlight using ultrasound.

Burdick has done extensive work as an instructor in EECS courses and promoter of diversity in the department.

At this year’s convention for the National Society of Black Engineers, U-M professors, students, and alums came together with the other attendees to share experiences, offer career advice, and explore how to improve society.

“Thanks to his tireless support and unparalleled patience, I am now equipped with a fundamental research skill set.”

Prof. Zhang receives outstanding evaluations from students and opens their imagination to research in the field of VLSI circuits and systems.

Bill Arthur was recognized for demonstrating sustained excellence in instruction and guidance.

The efforts of computing education researcher Mark Guzdial span the challenges facing a young field

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to education, Dr. David Chesney has been named a 2018-2019 Toby Teorey Collegiate Lecturer.

The award recognizes Mathieu’s outstanding teaching, research, and service in the area of power and energy.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty and students at Michigan are part of the revolution in data science that is happening today.

Rare in engineering education research, the project involves a randomized control trial to determine if it’s effective.

Attendees explored engineering teams, labs, and projects with demonstrations and games.

The REACT workshop pairs U-M researchers with K-12 science educators to introduce primary school teachers to new laboratory science and classroom-friendly activities.

Through EduTech, CS student Divyansh Sharma is working to deliver free video courses directly to Indian people in need of basic education.

Throughout the semester, students will work with Prof. Rada Mihalcea and PhD student Laura Wendlandt to see how computers connect to real-world applications in many disciplines.

The incoming electrical and computer engineering chair talks about her vision for the future.

Nino Masnari, alumnus, friend, and former faculty member of Electrical and Computer Engineering, passed away May 19, 2018 at the age of 82.

Students in EECS 556: Image Processing, explore methods to improve image processing in applications such as biomedical imaging and video and image compression

The three textbooks cover as many as five undergraduate courses in electrical engineering.

Course encourages students to come up with their own robot designs.

Chuck and Pat Krumm look forward to the Fellowship Fund enhancing the ability of future engineers to contribute positively to society.

The award recognizes “an outstanding teacher in both elementary and advanced courses.”

The award honors faculty “with a demonstrated sustained excellence in curricular development, instruction, and guidance.”

Students visited DTE Energy and Ford in Detroit to learn about the life of electrical and computer engineers in industry.

A select group of high school students spent a week in classes and labs as they participated in the Electrify Tech Camps to learn just a few things that go on in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Phillips, Lenaway, Daly, and Foley concluded that early exposure to EE technical areas was likely the best way to draw more students to the field further down the line.

Dsouza’s lessons have gone viral, his channel now has over 109,000 subscribers who tune in for Dsouza’s lessons and life updates.

New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond.

Sam Tenka traveled to Ecuador with the Honors GO team to aid the Street Children Work project.

Prof. Becky Peterson has received a 2018 U-M Henry Russel Award, which is considered the University’s highest honor for faculty at the early to mid-career stages of their career.

The gift supplemented the Computer Science and Engineering Special Projects Fund.

A team of NAME and EECS faculty have been awarded with a Second Place Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award.

Alumnus develops platform that allows instructors to turn almost any course into a multiplayer online game.

These students are learning to improve images in medical imaging, and improve facial recognition

With their gift, Stephen and Rosamund Forrest are making it possible for more graduate and undergraduate students pursue their dreams

Hofmann is great at introducing students to power electronics

Yagle’s career was distinguished by his dedication to teaching as well as contributions to research.

The winning projects were designed for battery-operated mobile applications as well as instrumentation and measure applications.

Course enrollment has increased by almost 200 students in just one year.

Dr. Dorf has made notable contributions to instruction through her reimagining of EECS 183.

ECE students say Prof. Deotare is the best!

Dr. Dorf has transformed EECS 183 into an interactive and inclusive experience.

Dean England of U-M Dearborn has been particularly good in helping women faculty and students achieve success.

Finelli takes on the future of educating engineers

Winful discusses life in education

Sawicki was one of 4 students in the College of Engineering selected to receive a 2017 Towner Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors.

Prof. Bertacco is enthusiastic and passionate about teaching and has made it her mission to improve the undergraduate educational experience of all of her students.

Franklin believes the best research results are achieved from a diversity of backgrounds, something she learned as a graduate student at Michigan and fosters in her own research group at Minnesota.

Prof. Liu helped implement a diversity incentive program that led to a record number of newly-admitted underrepresented PhD students in 2016 while overseeing the merger of two graduate programs.

Paoletti has transformed a 600+ student course into of the best-regarded classes in the EECS department.

As technology changes and advances, so does the range of courses offered by our faculty.

EECS 183 is designed to teach undeclared students and non-CS majors the fundamentals of algorithmic thinking and programming.

UM-SEDS co-President Arun Nagpal develops ENG 100 section to expose freshman to space science and atmospheric sensing.

The event highlighted the projects and work of several student teams and labs, giving kids and adults alike a chance to see ECE’s ingenuity in action.

These faculty broaden and deepen ECE’s areas of expertise in robotics, ultra low power circuits, nanophotonics, information theory, and many other areas.

Prof. Finelli will discuss a more student-centered electrical engineering classroom through pre-class reading and in-class problem solving, integrating some elements of a “flipped” classroom.

In the first approach of its kind, U-M is making big strides in the field of Engineering Education Research (EER).

This gift qualifies for the University’s Michigan Matching Initiative for Student Support, and proceeds will provide need-based scholarship support to electrical and computer engineering undergraduate students.

This edition includes two additional chapters, new concepts throughout the book, and additional problem sets.

The book explores the principles underpinning large-scale information processing over networks and the crucial interaction between big data and its associated communication, social and biological networks.

In his last week at the helm of Michigan Engineering, Dean David Munson wins a national award.

“India’s progress toward becoming a global economic power-player has generated an unprecedented need for a larger, highly trained workforce of engineers, scientists and technicians,” Rand said.

EECS 183 is the introductory CS class for LSA students, and it has been designed to broaden participation in the discipline.

To celebrate the contributions of our graduate and undergraduate instructors, the department selects the best of the best, based on student evaluations, and celebrates them at a special awards ceremony.

Through his courses, students are able to learn the fundamentals of programming and software systems, while also seeing the social impact of computer science.

The convention hosted more than 100 major companies, and offered students career workshops on interviewing, networking, and general industry know-how.

The all-day event consisted of hands-on activities, a panel discussion, and lab tours to show students the different aspects of CS.

Darden teaches both large sections of EECS 281 and a more specialized EECS 398 course. He also serves as a faculty advisor for CS students.

The group will hold a once-a-year hackathon for local high school students in addition to other events.

Stop/start is a new system being introduced into the North American automobile market to improve fuel economy while cutting down on pollution.

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Programs will be developed under the grant to foster inclusiveness and to provide support.

The School helps to prepare undergraduate students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for successful careers in computer science research.

Prof. Finelli's research is in engineering education, and she currently studies student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and institutional change.

Prof. Hofmann’s students felt they gained a lot from the course. Several of them will likely go on to teach control courses in coming semesters.

In ECE’s first-ever Electrify Summer Tech Camps, students gathered for three five-day sessions to learn the basics of electrical and computer engineering.

This award is presented annually to a faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in acknowledgement of exceptional achievements in the education of our students.

Congratulations to the faculty members that received promotions this year.

Paul E. and Ruth E. Bauhahn of have made a planned gift of $450,000 to establish the Ruth E. and Paul E. Bauhahn Fellowship Fund to support full-time graduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In recognition of how the Electrical Engineering discipline has evolved, the two graduate programs, Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering: Systems, have merged to form one graduate program: Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The project-based class has been a successful introduction to CS for many students.

The showcase is the culmination of a project from EECS 494, Computer Game Design and Development.

The breadth of projects shown by students at semester's end is inspiring.

Developed jointly with the Department of Statistics, the new program will bring together the practices required to adequately manage, analyze, and interpret data at scale.

A group of preschoolers get an early look at the world of CSE.

The center, to be built on North Campus, will offer state-of-the-art facilities in a 3-story, 100,000 square foot building.

Dr. Jeremy Gibson has flipped his classroom and revamped his game development course – and it looks promising.

Her experiences led her to establish the Irma M. Wyman Scholarship at the University’s Center for the Education of Women.

Dave Neuhoff is an internationally recognized expert in information theory, source coding and image processing.

In addition to MICWIC, CSE supports a number of programs designed to expand opportunities for women in computing through outreach, education, and through connection to resources.

Winners are chosen for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Congratulations to Profs Guo, Lafortune, Liu, and Lu!

The book is part of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Smart Materials series.

Students, faculty, and staff can attend the event at the Michigan Theater on January 8.

This showcase is one of the most popular to occur each year.

Prof. Farris served as an active and highly respected member of the College of Engineering for more than 20 years.

These faculty deepen ECE’s areas of expertise in computer vision, communications and information theory, environmental remote sensing, and laser-plasma interactions.

The 12th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) was held in Beijing, China from July 21 through 25th, 2014.

Prof. Grizzle is an internationally renowned researcher in the area of control systems.

Congratulations to Profs Bertacco, Flinn, Narayanasamy, Olson, Rais-Zadeh, and Zhong.

Three hundred and eighty alumni and children stretched across North Campus, dabbling in drones and bones, rockets and radioactives.

This award is in recognition of being an outstanding educator, mentor and role model for the next generation of faculty members.

The two winning projects and teams were determined by an expert panel at Analog Devices. Congratulations!

The course, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, has a tradition of offering prizes for the top final projects designed by the students.

“The trip made me more aware of some of the practical things … like the sound of the turbines, and how they alter the look of the land.”

Sarabandi’s lectures and presentations are known for being extremely clear and reflecting the highest research standards.

The course covers the theory and application of digital image processing.

Starting this year, an award will be presented to a faculty member from each division – both CS and ECE.

The specifications for the projects were close to the state of the art. Congratulations to the winning groups!

The 10th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from July 29th to August 4th, 2012.

The students, lead by Prof. Michael Flynn, competed for cash prizes—the two winners were chosen by Analog Devices.

Congratulations to out outstanding students for their much-appreciated work!

Signals and Systems is a core course for students studying electrical engineering and computer engineering.

Computer Vision seeks to imitate humans’ ability to recognize objects, navigate scenes, reconstruct layouts, and understand the geometric space and semantic meaning.

Fessler’s students have praised the collegial and collaborative environment of his lab, his careful balancing of freedom and guidance, and his attention to each student.

The two winning teams designed an energy harvesting circuit for implantable devices and sensor networks, and a high efficiency audio amplifier for mobile applications.

This was the first year Freescale opened up the competition to U.S. students—teams from U-M, U-M Dearborn, and Penn State competed against teams from Mexico and China.

The sensor network addressed in the paper assesses the operating conditions of a power plant. It is intended to measure process variables and assess plant status.

“This book organizes and introduces major concepts in 3D scene and object representation and inference from still images.”

“This is a textbook and reference for readers interested in quasilinear control, a set of methods for performance analysis and design of linear plant or nonlinear instrumentation systems.”

Congratulations to the winning students!

This award recognizes faculty in the early stages of their career for their outstanding ability in teaching undergraduate students.

Norris was praised by students and faculty alike for his abilities as a mentor, researcher, and educator.

“We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects,” stated Dr. Naraghi.

Congratulations to Jeong, Park, and Yoon!

The new course brings together faculty from Art, Architecture, Engineering, and Music — all found on North Campus.

Not only is Brehob an excellent educator, he is also a fantastic Undergrad Chief Program Advisor for CE, where he advises students on program needs.