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Mechanical Engineering Faculty/Staff Awards

Aug. 30, 2018

Congratulations to these outstanding professors, instructors, and staff for going the extra mile during 2017-2018. Annual department awards were presented at the first faculty/staff meeting of the 2018-2019 academic year. Outstanding Undergraduate Educators Keith Regner Shalom Ruben Outstanding Graduate Educator Mark Rentschler Outstanding Researcher Franck Vernerey Outstanding Service Julie Steinbrenner...

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Why we’re waiving application fees for domestic PhD students

Aug. 15, 2018

Now through Dec. 1, 2018, we’re waiving application fees for all domestic applicants to our CU Engineering PhD programs. We’re taking this unprecedented step for a few important reasons: To remove one more barrier for qualified applicants. Between GREs, visiting schools and submitting applications, the cost of applying to graduate...

Alexandra Jaros

Undergraduate students share their summer research work at capstone CU SPUR event

Aug. 6, 2018

Students in the CU Summer Program for Undergraduate Research shared their findings with faculty, family and fellow students during presentations Monday and Tuesday in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center. This is the third year of the program, and 40 students from a variety of fields participated. This year’s research topics...

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Deciphering the Parkinson’s disease puzzle

July 26, 2018

Alaa Ahmed is working to unlock the secrets of Parkinson’s disease and make life better for its sufferers. The °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering has earned a multi-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the illness and a potential treatment for it. Parkinson’s...

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How °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Scientists are Using Lasers to Hunt for Leaky Oil and Gas Equipment

July 23, 2018

Wyoming and Colorado are in the top ten natural gas producing states. But in those states – and across the country – a lot of that gas is escaping straight into the air. Scientists are now working to come up with a better way to track those leaks down. In...

Members of the team at the 2018 Engineering Design Expo at Coors Events Center.

Bike drivetrain design wins 2018 Eurobike Innovation Award

July 11, 2018

A senior design project for a new type of bicycle drivetrain is getting major attention in the...

Miller at Stonehenge

Mechanical Engineering student living the Be Boulder mantra

July 10, 2018

Spencer Miller at Stonehenge during a previous trip. Spencer Miller is a living embodiment of the Be Boulder slogan. He is at once a leader, inclusive champion, young engineer, athlete and consummate backpacker. He is as comfortable in a Calculus II textbook as he is fixing the carburetor of an...

Roaring Fork High School students excitedly crowd around to wait for judging of their spaghetti bridges

Roaring Fork students draw on experience to engineer bridges

July 5, 2018

A group of 100 rising high school juniors from the Roaring Fork Pre-Collegiate Program were able to bridge what they knew about engineering to real experiences and answers at The BOLD Center last week. °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ started the Pre-Collegiate Development Program for first generation middle and high school students in...

Natasha Ouellette

"#ILookLikeAnEngineer is about confronting our biases about what we expect from engineers." - Natasha Ouellette

June 29, 2018

When I moved to Boulder and started classes, it took me almost three weeks to stop being so excited about college that I wasn't stressed at all. When the novelty began to wear off, I was suddenly hit with a wave of feeling anxious, out-of-place, like I was drifting without...

National Science Foundation logo.

STEM Buffs recognizes NSF Graduate Fellowship honorees

June 12, 2018

This spring, 22 students across the °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ campus (and 12 incoming CU graduate students) were awarded the competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation. The GRFP recognizes outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for their potential to contribute to research and...

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