Materials

Weeks, Narayan, Cetin, Masten to receive top college honors

March 16, 2023

MSU Engineering honors for diversity, global and student services  

The Michigan State University College of Engineering will recognize four faculty and staff members for excellence in diversity, global leadership, and student service during the 33rd Annual Engineering Awards. The honors are considered among the college’s most prestigious distinctions and will be presented on Wednesday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. at the University Club.

Award-winning 5G/6G network expert joins ECE faculty

Feb. 13, 2023

MSU welcomes antenna specialist Mauro Ettorre, new IEEE Fellow

An award-winning professor of electrical and computer engineering, whose advancements of large antenna arrays recently earned him an international Fellow honor, has joined the Michigan State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

Mauro Ettorre comes to MSU from the French National Center for Scientific Research in Rennes, France, where he led the research activity on millimeter-wave antennas for space communications and next generation 5G/6G networks. 

Xinyue Liu

Xinyue Liu joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University as an assistant professor in 2023. Her vision is leveraging material innovations to address key challenges in sustainability and health. Her research group focuses on developing multiscale structures and designing multiphysics behaviors of living materials, and building high-performance living devices for medical, water, agriculture, and construction.

STEM Building's hybrid space is creating hands-on discoveries

Jan. 9, 2023 

It’s all material -- MSU grows ChEMS and materials science

In a new-tech classroom on the second floor of Michigan State University’s innovative STEM Teaching and Learning Facility, engineering students are modifying and testing materials by heat treating, stretching and breaking samples. Students investigate the internal structure - the so-called microstructure - of materials that power the engines of industry.

Michael Hickner

The Hickner Research Group is focused on the synthesis and properties of ion-containing polymers, measurement of water-polymer interactions using spectroscopic techniques, additive manufacturing of polymer and composite materials, and the application of polymeric materials in energy and water treatment technologies. Our group has current projects with the Department of Energy on fuel cells and flow batteries and regularly works on federally-funded research at the intersection of materials and energy.