Laboratories

Mechanical Engineering

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]

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

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

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

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

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...

JI Students Shine in 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium

In the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium that recently took place in Montreal, Canada, JI’s graduate student Jiapin Guo, supervised by Assistant Professor Xinen Zhu, presented a paper titled “An improved analytical model for RF-DC conversion efficiency in...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Roberto Dugnani

Education STANFORD UNIVERSITY  (CA, USA ) Ph. D., Aerospace Engineering, 2004 WORCESTER POLYTECH. INSTITUTE (MA, USA) M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1997 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1995 Bibliographical Information Since 2012, Prof. Dugnani is an associate researcher...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Hua Bao

Prof. Hua Bao received his B.S. of Physics from Tsinghua University in 2006 and Ph.D. on Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2012. He then joined UM-SJTU Joint Institute as an assistant professor. Email: hua.bao@sjtu.edu.cn Website: /personal/baohua/

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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]

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

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

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

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

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...

JI Students Shine in 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium

In the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium that recently took place in Montreal, Canada, JI’s graduate student Jiapin Guo, supervised by Assistant Professor Xinen Zhu, presented a paper titled “An improved analytical model for RF-DC conversion efficiency in...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Roberto Dugnani

Education STANFORD UNIVERSITY  (CA, USA ) Ph. D., Aerospace Engineering, 2004 WORCESTER POLYTECH. INSTITUTE (MA, USA) M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1997 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1995 Bibliographical Information Since 2012, Prof. Dugnani is an associate researcher...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Hua Bao

Prof. Hua Bao received his B.S. of Physics from Tsinghua University in 2006 and Ph.D. on Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2012. He then joined UM-SJTU Joint Institute as an assistant professor. Email: hua.bao@sjtu.edu.cn Website: /personal/baohua/

Material Science and Engineering

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]

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

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

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

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

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...

JI Students Shine in 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium

In the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium that recently took place in Montreal, Canada, JI’s graduate student Jiapin Guo, supervised by Assistant Professor Xinen Zhu, presented a paper titled “An improved analytical model for RF-DC conversion efficiency in...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Roberto Dugnani

Education STANFORD UNIVERSITY  (CA, USA ) Ph. D., Aerospace Engineering, 2004 WORCESTER POLYTECH. INSTITUTE (MA, USA) M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1997 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1995 Bibliographical Information Since 2012, Prof. Dugnani is an associate researcher...

Introduction of new faculty to JI—Hua Bao

Prof. Hua Bao received his B.S. of Physics from Tsinghua University in 2006 and Ph.D. on Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2012. He then joined UM-SJTU Joint Institute as an assistant professor. Email: hua.bao@sjtu.edu.cn Website: /personal/baohua/