Best Michigan Engineering Radio Podcasts (2025)

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The future of Line 5: Engineering under Lake Michigan 15:36

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave the Canadian oil company Enbridge until May 12th to shut down the segment of the Line 5 pipeline that runs along the Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the order. The question remains: how would Enbridge shut down the controversial pipeline and construct a replacement tunnel…

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Sticking the Landing 25:25

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If all goes according to plan, plenty of eyes will be on Mars on February 18th, the day NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is set to touch down on the Red Planet’s surface. . Late in 2019, just months before the U.S. plunged into full-on, COVID-19 life, NASA tapped Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jesse Capecelatro and his team to help study the pa…

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Nanobiotics to Fight Superbugs 18:42

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S1 E4 - The Blue Sky Podcast Evolution provided bacteria with a mechanism to overcome our antibiotics, and each time we introduce a new antibiotic, they get faster at becoming resistant to it. At the same time, it can take 14 years and billions of dollars to bring a new one to market. Angela Violi, professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a …

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Carbon Negative, Dollar Positive 19:55

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S1 E3 - The Blue Sky Podcast What’s more expensive—dealing with climate change, or not dealing with climate change? The Global CO2 Initiative is trying to break the trade-off by making carbon-negative manufacturing pay. The effort views the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a resource to be mined from smokestacks or even the air and used to make …

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Remaking Water Infrastructure 21:57

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S1 E 2 - The Blue Sky Podcast We may not like to think of our water as being filled with microbes but...well, they’re in there. And we could be recruiting some to help us out rather than treating them like a monolithic opposition to be roundly defeated with an abundance of chlorine. Lut Raskin, professor of civil and environmental engineering, lead…

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Artificial Photosynthesis for Sustainable “Solar Fuels” 16:09

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S1 E 1 - The Blue Sky Podcast What if we could learn from the trees to make a fossil fuel alternative out of carbon dioxide and sunlight alone? We could close the loop on carbon emissions—a critical win in the battle against climate change. That's one of the goals of Zetian Mi, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He's also aim…

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Coming Soon: The Blue Sky Podcast 1:54

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Engineers are problem-solvers. And humanity has some colossal problems. The Blue Sky Podcast is an award winning limited series from RE: Engineering Radio and the University of Michigan College of Engineering. We’re following four research projects in critically important areas of global consequence. Coming November 25th. . . Enjoying RE: Engineeri…

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Three Failure Fables 30:06

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Failure is not an option….but why can’t it be? Too often “failure” is a negative. We’re conditioned to the binary options of either failure or success, but in reality, failure is a lot more nuanced. Join us as Professor Peter Adriaens tells three short stories—on failure, risk taking and the lessons learned to achieve positive outcomes. Peter Adria…

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Disappearing Pioneers 27:20

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When women and underrepresented minorities make important contributions to science or technology, why do they later disappear from history? It’s a phenomenon that Lynn Conway, University of Michigan professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has documented since her own erasure. Conway was a driving force in the very-large-sc…

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Restoration 24:30

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Mind-controlled prosthetics—we’ve all seen them in movies, right? They feel like something we should already have, but so far they've been out of reach. The problem isn’t that scientists and engineers can’t make them. It’s that the crucial link between artificial limb and mind needs to be restored, in a way that turns that hardware into humanware. …

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Launching Solar Orbiter 16:11

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For more than a decade, a global alliance of engineers developed the unprecedented scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. A team from the University of Michigan helped lead that journey. In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio we join them on launch night—a defining moment for them, for solar science, and for our future as a spacefaring species.…

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News Roundup: 2019 Edition 23:39

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Hey listeners! This episode of RE: Engineering Radio is a little different than what you've heard in the past. Here, members of the RE: Engineering Radio team sit down for a round table discussion of some of the coolest, most interesting, and most noteworthy mentions of Michigan Engineering researchers in the news—featuring bipedal robots, drones t…

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Solve for Life 20:08

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Deep in the Amazon, teams from around the world collaborate to understand plant life in the rainforest. Now due to climate change and the rollback of forest protections, their work has never been under greater threat. Hear about Michigan researchers' race to unlock the equations that could save the Amazon—and us all. Enjoying RE: Engineering Radio …

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Putting the AI in Aviation 18:19

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Somewhere, in a parallel universe, there is an Ella Atkins who happily does her research on autonomy in aerial vehicles, licenses software to aircraft companies and generally makes airspace a safer place. In our universe, aerospace hasn’t been ready for her. In this episode of RE: Engineering Radio, hear how Professor Ella Atkins is persuading a fi…

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The Black Box of Human Development 26:49

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U-M researchers developed a way to make large numbers of human embryo-like structures that have the potential to solve hard problems in maternal and child health. Batches of these structures could help screen medications for safety during early pregnancy, for example, and shed light on the causes of both birth defects and multiple miscarriages. In …

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Growing STEM 45:31

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Today she’s a NASA engineer turned CEO, but Aisha Bowe began her journey as a self described teen struggling with low self-esteem. After excelling in community college math classes she transferred to Michigan Engineering’s aerospace program, where she earned her bachelor’s and later a master’s degree in space systems engineering. Her tech company, …

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Touch the Sun 50:42

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The Carrington Event, a solar storm that struck Earth's magnetosphere in 1859, was so powerful it knocked out telegraph wires for three days—and some subsequent solar storms have equaled or surpassed Carrington's magnitude. If these coronal mass ejections were to hit Earth today, they could severely damage our power grid, potentially wiping out ele…

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Hey Cybersecurity, Change or Be Changed 51:42

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How did an Ann Arbor security start-up get acquired for $2.35 billion? The co-founders met in a stairwell. Jon Oberheide was a high school hacker, breaching security at the same company where Dug Song worked. Duo Security, the company they'd later found together, brought a punk-rock ethos to tech security and stuck up for the little guy. Following …