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UM’s ANCR Lab Shines at HIPER 2025 and Beyond
The University of Michigan’s Advanced Naval Concepts Research Laboratory recently represented the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the 2025 High Performance Marine Vehicles (HIPER) conference in Tullamore, Ireland. Matthew Dowling delivered a noteworthy presentation on their paper, “Exploring Data-Driven RUL Methods for Marine Systems Using a Lab-Scale Ship Machinery Plant,” with teammates…
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NA&ME Welcomes New Assistant Professor
We are excited to announce that Dr. Alan Papalia will join our department as an Assistant Professor in January 2026. Dr. Papalia completed his Ph.D. at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he developed reliable, low-cost navigation solutions for large-scale robotic systems. Before joining us, he will spend 2025 as a postdoctoral fellow…
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Beers/Wood honored with 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan award
Beers/Wood Honored with 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan Award Gregory Beers, P.E. (MSE 95, BSE 94) and Cory Wood (BSE 93), esteemed alumni of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, have been awarded the 2024 Rosenblatt-Michigan Award. Cory Wood received his BS in NAME in 1993 and Greg. Beers was right behind a BS in 1994 and…
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$4.1M Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering building renovation
We are happy to report that the $4.1 million renovation of the NAME building is nearly complete. The scope of the project included the renovation of 8,400 square feet of key spaces, including classroom 138, restrooms, the lounge, and the Undergraduate Marine Design Lab (UGMDL). Additionally, the corridors and the two main interior entrances received…
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PhD candidate wins NSF Fellowship Award for Ocean Engineering paper
PhD candidate Kyle Marlantes for his National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Award for the presentation of his work on hybrid force-correcting machine learning methods at the IACM 2023 Mechanic Machine Learning and Digital Engineering for Computational Science Engineering and Technology Conference. The work demonstrated how a force-correcting approach can be used to learn nonlinear damping,…
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NAME students present research at Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference
Four NAME undergraduate students were invited by the Dean of the College of Engineering to represent the University of Michigan at the 11th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC), held 6-8 November 2022 in Annapolis, Maryland. This year’s conference, titled Powering the Modern World, is organized around the themes of Energy and Sustainability. Delegates…
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Professor McCoy establishes first of its kind Marine Engineering Lab
Professor Tim McCoy has established the first-of-its-kind multi-physics hardware lab dedicated to marine engineering systems in the United States for his project, Data Model Fusion: Design, Experiments, and Frameworks for Surface Platforms.