Faculty Research

Contact fatigue by the numbers

By Website Administrator | Dec 1, 2008

Kettering's Dr. Ilya Kudish is one of 18 of the world's leading authorities on rolling contact fatigue. He and his colleagues met in Lyon, France, this year to try to mathematically unravel contact fatigue.

Imagined or real?

By Website Administrator | May 8, 2009

Dr. Eugene Hynes, an associate professor of Sociology at Kettering University, authored an award-winning book that examines the Virgin Mary's apparition in Knock, Ireland, in 1879 and its connection to the cultural and religious issues of the day.

Building better car seats

By Website Administrator | Jun 30, 2009

Kettering University's Crash Safety Center worked with Dorel Juvenile Group to develop a ground-breaking new car seat safety technology that better protects kids in side impact crashes.

Green mobility

By Website Administrator | Jan 14, 2011

Kettering has developed an HEV Green Mobility Laboratory focused on teaching undergraduate students about technology critical to the future of the auto industry.

New vehicle durability test lab

By Website Administrator | Jan 5, 2011

Kettering has added a vehicle durability and integration lab to its stable of research facilities on campus. This lab can really SHAKE things up!

New fuel and old cars

By Website Administrator | Jan 4, 2011

Two Kettering professors continue their research into the effects of ethanol-blended gasoline on older-model cars.

Re-figuring Diffy Q

By Website Administrator | Mar 14, 2011

Kettering's Dr. Leszek Gawarecki and MSU's Vidyadhar Mandrekar have written a systematic study of stochastic differential equations - the foundation of much applied engineering and physics.

Improving PHEV batteries

By Website Administrator | May 31, 2011

Kettering's Dr. Hua Bai has two research contracts designed to solve practical problems related to Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles: power factor correction and battery life.

Tribology for EOLSS

By Website Administrator | May 24, 2011

Kettering Professor Ilya Kudish will lend his expertise in Tribology to UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.

Nano-medicine

By Website Administrator | Oct 18, 2011

Mimicking the human body's own healing method - heat - researchers at Kettering and Wayne State universities are using nanotechnology to treat cancer.