Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer
Puffin Air Purifiers team are winners in national innovation competition
Rebecca Lentz and Rachel Silcox received $5K and additional mentorship from the VentureWell Accelerator program to develop their indoor CO2 monitor and air purifier technology.Heat2Power: a hot new startup that converts stored heat into electricity
Heat2Power, co-founded by Profs. Stephen Forrest and Andrej Lenert, uses high-efficiency, low-cost thermophotovoltaic technology to turn stored heat into energy.Wei Lu named U-M Innovation Champion
As a university-wide leader in tech transfer, Lu will serve as a resource to help ECE faculty connect their research with real-world applications.ECE Spinout company NS Nanotech releases first solid-state semiconductor to produce human-safe disinfecting UV light
NS Nanotech’s new product, enabled by ECE Prof. Zetian Mi’s research, can safely disinfect high-risk spaces like ambulances and school buses.ECE startup MemryX releases MX3 Edge AI Accelerator
MemryX has announced production availability of a new AI chip, enabled by U-M ECE research.Aline Eid receives MTRAC Award to commercialize radar vision for autonomous indoor navigation
Prof. Eid will partner with the industry startup Atheraxon to market technology for automated guided vehicles in warehouse environments and beyond.Alum Mo Faisal on building a successful semiconductor company
Faisal, the 2023 ECE Rising Star Alumni Award recipient, founded Movellus based on his doctoral research conducted under Prof. David Wentzloff.In a new Technical Sales course, students practice the skill set of selling technology to businesses
Alum Eli Neumann, the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineers, co-designed the Center for Entrepreneurship course.ECE Expeditions rides to the Lone Star State for a tour of engineering companies
Students networked with alums, tested demos of new technology, and toured labs at HPE, NASA, Ambiq, Dell, Torc Robotics, and NI.Vikram Verma talks the value of engineering and leadership to society as the 2022 ECE Alumni Impact Award winner
Verma credits his distinguished 30-year executive career with leading technology companies, including Savi Technology, Lockheed Martin and 8x8 Inc., to a combination of education, leadership, and luck.ECE at the center of Celebrate Invention: 2022
Wei Lu talked about his innovations as the 2022 Distinguished University Innovator, followed by a panel discussion about the University's role in fueling new high tech companies in the area.ECE alum Mihir Sheth receives Young Innovator Award from Innovate UK for making a medical device that weans patients off ventilators quicker
Sheth is the co-founder of Inspiritus Health and has developed a simple to use, non-invasive medical device that keeps patients’ muscles engaged when they are on a ventilator to prevent muscle atrophy.Michigan startup MemryX, Inc. promises faster, cheaper AI processing
The ECE startup builds neuromorphic computer chips uniquely suitable for AI applicationsWith Slide, student entrepreneurs aim to make contact sharing frictionless
After five years, Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit based on tech developed at Michigan, has helped to secure the internet
Josh Meyer has built the software that your kids and teachers need
Undergrad game developers sign video game development deal
Amulya Parmar: One conversation can change everything
Amulya Parmar started his first company at 15, and is committed to positive impact in all of his endeavors.U-M startup NS Nanotech unveils new generation of LEDs for high-efficiency, high-performance displays
The Wolverines Behind the Next Generation of Autonomous Vehicles
The Center for Entrepreneurship profiles a team of EECS students, who are working to develop the next generation of delivery vehicles.Two ‘U’ researchers receive Distinguished University Innovator Award
The Michigan Daily profiles Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, who are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award.Blaauw, Sylvester are 2019 Distinguished University Innovators
Year of growth, experiments for May Mobility
KLA opens new R&D office in Ann Arbor
Advancing AI for Video: Startup launches powerful video processing platform
A Spotlight on Optics
U-M startup raises $6 million in venture funding
Taking on the limits of computing power
Rick Bolander: Entrepreneurship is a team sport
Transformative approach to 5G funded by new Innovator program
A new company, Omniscent, is sniffing out dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the air
Student org brings investors to Michigan
Making education accessible in rural India
Q&A with Mingyan Liu
The next medical markets of Collin Rich
Mingyan Liu, 2018 Distinguished University Innovator, talks about her company and data science commercialization
CSE alum startup SambaNova collects $56m in funding for AI chip research
BMW, Toyota invest in U-M startup May Mobility
Internet-scanning U-M startup offers new approach to cybersecurity
Bringing smart banking to market
Fred Buhler builds better chips for “Aweslome” applications
Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics – giving tech a sense of touch
A VR-powered crystal structures app (video)
The ‘Power’ of a lunchbox
Eric Vander Weele: Building Bloomberg LP
ECE Alum Kevin Johnson receives IEEE-USA Award
CSE-based startup Clinc receives $6.3M in funding to further develop intelligent banking assistant
CubeWorks: Solving problems with the world’s smallest and lowest-power computers
Cubeworks receives its first external funding to manufacture millimeter-scale computing devicesAlum startup wins $25,000 at Accelerate Michigan Competition
MHacks win propels virtual reality startup named Gwydion, focused on child therapy and 3D gaming
Clinc launches Finie, an AI personal assistant for mobile banking
‘The most interesting tech IPO of the year’ was founded by alums
CSE-based startup receives funding to develop systems based on intelligent personal assistant technology
With over 7 million certificates issued, Let’s Encrypt aims to secure the entire web
New venture is on the path to build continual learning AIs
U-M cyber security startup purchased by FICO
Fighting cyber crime with data analytics
Making Memory Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger
G is for Google
Larry Page changed the web forever in 1998, now he wants to change the world.Engineering a better life for people with diabetes
Startup founded by U-M assoc. professor gets NSF grant
Cutting the cost of hearing
Secure your website now: Let's Encrypt enters Public Beta
Googling the physical world
First-ever ECE Career Fair builds student careers and alumni connections
Ashraf Dahod: 2015 CoE Alumni Medal Award Winner
Jimmy Hsiao – A local player in a global market
Claude Gauthier and OmniPhy: Connecting to the ethernet revolution
3 ECE companies make the Silicon 60 List – again!
Engineering friendship
EECS students make career connections at NSBE conference
Four EECS companies make Crain’s list of most innovative companies, and one tops the list
ECE alum Ruba Borno to join Cisco’s new executive team
The Mad Scientist’s Lab: A look inside Mitch Rohde and Quantum Signal’s school-sized playhouse
Silicon valley entrepreneurs help bring WIMS2 technology to the world
Health and Fitness Company Founded by CS Alum Gets Acquired by Practo
Stephen Forrest receives 2015 Distinguished University Innovator Award
Two ECE alums make top semiconductor CEOs list
Student team reaches Qualcomm finals with their proposal for a wearable haptic device
Nick Yang: Investing in the age of robotics
EECS alums are flying high with drone startup Skyspecs
Scott Hanson receives 2014 Arbor Networks Ph.D. Research Impact Award
UM Computer Science Alumni Create Cribspot.com
Steve Mollenkopf: Leader of Qualcomm and Mobile Technologies
Peter Tchoryk: An entrepreneurial CEO
Alumni Spotlight: Steve Mollenkopf, New CEO of Qualcomm
PsiKick startup attracts financing for its Internet of Things technology
Keravnos Energy wants to make fast electric vehicle charging economical
Muhammad Faisal wins business competition with technology critical to the Internet of Things
Alumni Spotlight: Allan Evans and Avegant: Creating a brilliant multimedia experience from anywhere with Glyph
Making the Internet of Things happen
Faster, more powerful mobile devices: U-M startup Crossbar could disrupt the memory market
Michael McCorquodale named 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Innovator of the Year
Next-generation computer memory firm receives U-Ms first startup investment
ePack, Inc. wins Masco Next Gen Manufacturing Award at Innovation Competition
Powering breakthrough technologies
MEMStim takes first prize in the Michigan Business Challenge
Connor Field — Growing energy on a solar farm
Najafi, Wise named Distinguished University Innovators
Two electrical engineers set up a global charity
EECS Spinoffs recognized as Key Innovators in Business Competition
Students give a couple of the best among 3,000 Elevator Pitches
Ambiq Micro: Taking a startup to the next level
Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
Enertia and ABC take 1st and 2nd prizes in the clean energy prize business plan competition
University of Michigan Office of Technology to showcase inventions