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Andrew DeOrio, CSE Lecturer IV, works with his infant daughter, Nellie, in his office in the afternoon on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on February 19, 2020.

While DeOrio is on parental leave, he comes in occasionally for meetings and other small tasks where he can bring Nellie.

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Valeriy Ivanov started as a coder before traveling to Brazil for hands-on field research in Tapajós National Forest. The Amazon is a challenging environment, but the data he and other researchers gather is essential to understanding life in the rainforest–and around the world. Ivanov, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan, is the lone engineer on a team of about a dozen scientists who spend weeks at a time in the National Forest gathering data: https://cee.engin.umich.edu/people/valeriy-ivanov/ ------ 

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Our closest-ever look inside the sun's corona has unveiled an unexpectedly chaotic world of rogue plasma waves, flipping magnetic fields and distant solar winds under the thrall of the sun’s rotation: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2019/12/... 

These findings come from University of Michigan researchers serving key roles in NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission, and are part of the first wave of results from the probe that launched in August 2018, provide important insights into two fundamental questions the mission was designed to answer: Why does the sun's corona get hotter as your move further away from the surface? And what accelerates the solar wind—an outward stream of protons, electrons and other particles emanating from the corona. Both questions have ramifications for how we predict, detect and prepare for solar storms and coronal mass ejections that can have dramatic impacts on Earth's power grid and on astronauts. Justin Kasper, a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at U-M who serves as principal investigator for Parker’s Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite. https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/...

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Noah Evile, Race Mechanical Engineer, readies the team's competition car the morning of the team's third day during the Bridgestone World Solar Car Challenge in Australia on October 14, 2019.

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Jiseok Gim, materials science and engineering PhD candidate, demonstrates loading a sample into the JEOL 3100R05 electron microscope in the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization at the University of Michigan's North Campus Research Complex in Ann Arbor, MI on October 21, 2019.

Gim is part of a research team at U-M, led by Robert Hovden, associate professor of materials science and engineering, that used electron microscopy and mechanical deformation techniques to capture visual evidence of why nacre, a long-studied bio material found in mollusk shells, is so tough.

Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering

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Dawn Jordan Musil tests an open-source robotic leg designed by Elliott Rouse, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and his research group in the G. G. Brown Building on May 28, 2019.

The project is provides a robust and relatively inexpensive system that can be easily manufactured, assembled, and controlled by other researchers, aiming to expand the research field and its knowledge base.

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Michigan Engineering first-year students attend engineering 2019 on the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on September 4, 2019.

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Electrum, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team's car that will be competing in the upcoming 2019 World Solar Challenge this fall.

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