What Kind of Engineer Should You Be?

What Kind of Engineer Should You Be?

Engineers are not just technology specialists; professional engineers have ethical responsibilities to society and to humanity. Engineers are capable of bringing about major changes in the world. By aiming high, with feet on the ground, they can lead the way into the...
U-M,SJTU fund joint energy,biomedical projects[Reprinted]

U-M,SJTU fund joint energy,biomedical projects[Reprinted]

Six research teams from U-M and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won a share of $1.16 million in funding for renewable energy and biomedical technology projects in the third year of a joint program that teams up investigators from both schools. The energy...
Professor Yaping Dan Named 1000 Young Scholar

Professor Yaping Dan Named 1000 Young Scholar

The Chinese Government has just announced the new group of winners for the “Youth 1000-People Plan.”  JI’s Associate Professor Yaping Dan is our third faculty member to receive the honor. Professors Benjamin Yellen and Wenjie Wan were previously honored. Prof. Dan...
Introduction of new faculty to JI—Yaping Dan

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Yaping Dan

Education/Training Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, Dec. 2008 – May 2012 University of Pennsylvania, PhD, 2003-2008 Tsinghua University, M.S., 1999-2002 Xi’an Jiaotong University, B.S., 1995-1999 Awards National “1000 Youth Scholar Plan”,...
JI Graduate Student Recruitment in Full Swing

JI Graduate Student Recruitment in Full Swing

Recently, JI faculty and staff have been traveling with the SJTU graduate students recruiting teams to major cities in China, including Wuhan, Changsha, Xian, Nanjing, Jinan, Xiamen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin, Changchun, and...
More JI Students Become Math Problem Solvers

More JI Students Become Math Problem Solvers

Prof. Danrun Huang, Professor of St. Cloud State University who teaches mathematics at JI every summer, reports that more JI students have become math problem solvers since several students appeared last year in Math Horizons, an official journal of the Mathematical...