Evan and Claire demonstrate the technology

Students invent device for delivering COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas

March 30, 2021

Senior design team solving problems to aid public health

Labbe

Labbe to host CU Engineering Alumni Webinar on April 15

March 30, 2021

Assistant Professor Nicole Labbe will discuss her work around the chemistry of combustion on April 15 as part of the CU Engineering Alumni Webinar series.

Mechanical Engineering Projects Showcase 2021

Mechanical Engineering Projects Showcase Week 2021

You are invited to our online projects showcase, celebrating the achievements of over 200 engineering capstone design students. Learn about their projects, leave a comment, and see how these talented engineers are already making an impact.

Snake skin

Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material

March 2, 2021

A research team led by CU 鶹 has designed a new kind of synthetic “skin” as slippery as the scales of a snake. The research, published recently in the American Chemical Society journal Applied Materials & Interfaces, addresses an under-appreciated problem in engineering: Friction.

Skull

New wave technique allows for better understanding of the skull

March 1, 2021

Matteo Mazzotti is the first author on two new studies that measure the dynamic response of the human skull, potentially providing a new and non-invasive way to monitor the cranial bone and brain. Mazzotti is a research associate in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering as part of Professor Massimo Ruzzene’s lab.

skeleton xray

Lynch to study links between cancer, skeletal heath and exercise in CAREER award

Feb. 24, 2021

Assistant Professor Maureen Lynch was recently awarded a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to study those dynamics and improve scientific understanding of the causes and treatments of tumor-induced bone disease.

Computer

Seed grant could lead to materials needed for unconventional computing revolution

Feb. 23, 2021

An interdisciplinary team of researchers in the college is working to develop materials to enable the next generation of computing. If successful, the boundary between materials and computers may disappear altogether in the near future.

Cell

Gene research could inform understanding of aging, aid in bioengineering

Feb. 18, 2021

Soham Ghosh is the coauthor of a new paper that deals with gene accessibility and function in living beings. Ghosh completed the work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab led by Professor Corey Neu.

Cells

Researchers probe cell nucleus response with needle-tip technique

Feb. 18, 2021

Kaitlin McCreery is the coauthor of a new paper that deals with diagnosing diseases such as osteoarthritis in soft tissue. McCreery is currently a PhD student in the Neu Lab

Kimberly Fung

Undergraduate Student of the Month - Kimberly Fung

Feb. 15, 2021

Yearly trips to Disneyland and an undying love for the movies motivate Kimberly Fung on her quest to create products that make people feel inspired and enable them to make the world a better place.

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