Research

Combustion in Microgravity Professor Margaret Wooldridge Combustion Laboratory
The team conducted experiments on the KC-135 (the "vomit-comet") at microgravity to study magnesium combustion in carbon dioxide with iodine catalyst. Preliminary testing and design conducting in the lab using a combustion chamber (right) and high speed imagining (above).

Advanced automotive research is conducted in many labs in the College of Engineering.

Representative examples include:

The W.E. Lay Automotive Laboratory http://me.engin.umich.edu/autolab/

The Automotive Research Center http://arc.engin.umich.edu/

The GM Collaborative Research Laboratory in Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing http://gmcrl.engin.umich.edu/

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.php