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U-M CEE is providing an extended panel discussion article, consisting of audience questions that were unable to be answered during our January 31, 2023, webinar due to time limitations. This discussion features Dr. Kimberly Prather and panelists Jim Rosenthal and Dustin Poppendieck

CEE Professors Carol Menassa and Vineet Kamat are the lead PIs on a project that is looking at long-term ways to provide new solutions for people who use wheelchairs for mobility in indoor and outdoor built environments, with a goal of improving their independence and reducing health care costs.

Flooding is the leading cause of property damage and deaths in the U.S. It’s bigger than earthquakes and forest fires put together. Branko Kerkez, an Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his students at the Digital Water Lab partnered with researchers at the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions to measure, better understand and prevent flooding and its aftermath in some of the most vulnerable communities.

Wildfires pose a significant danger to people living at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and have caused billions of dollars in damage to property. U-M CEE Associate Prof. Ann Jeffers is the lead P.I. on a project that just received a grant for almost $600,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a computational model that will allow researchers to predict structural ignitions under wildfire exposure. The project’s title is “BRITE Relaunch: A Physics-Based Simulation Model for Exploring Community Resilience to Wildfires.”

Michigan Engineering researchers will help reveal pathways for virus detection and transmission

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Their winning paper seeks to enhance assisted navigation of wheeled mobility devices.