senior design reviews

Producing a prototype during the pandemic

April 29, 2020

The unprecedented challenges of COVID-19 sparked an impressive and resilient response from seniors in their capstone design projects.

engineering alumna helps during coronavirus

Engineering alumna's family food truck serves hospital staff in Portland

April 28, 2020

In just one day, mechanical engineering alumna Suzi Jewett and her husband served 500 bowls of ramen and 1,200 gyoza to hospital staff. Two of their children, 10-year-old Sami and 12-year-old Jacob, helped cook and serve meals.

Steve Kaczeus

Beer Buffs: CU Engineering alumni become brewers

April 28, 2020

In Colorado’s craft beer industry, precision is required and innovation is mandatory. CU Engineers bring both in spades. Meet a few of our local alumni brewers and learn how they’re engineering a better brew.

aerosols

Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here’s the science of infectious aerosols

April 25, 2020

Professor Shelly Miller discusses aerosols, tiny particles of liquid and material that float around in our environment. When they come from an infected person, they may be a significant source of coronavirus transmission.

Showcase Week

Mechanical Engineering Projects Showcase Week 2020

You are invited to our online projects showcase, celebrating the achievements of over 250 engineering capstone design students from April 27–May 1. Learn about their projects, leave a comment, and see how these talented engineers are already making an impact.

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Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition

April 21, 2020

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will cause urban and indoor levels of the gas to increase. This may significantly reduce our basic decision-making ability and complex strategic thinking, according to a new CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø-led study.

DARPA Subterranean Challenge

It has to work: Sub T Challenge sharpens students’ skill in the field

April 17, 2020

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments.

Kristine Fischenich

Former athlete is working to understand effects of soft tissue injuries

April 13, 2020

Postdoctoral Research Associate Kristine Fischenich tore her ACL three times as a young athlete. Now she works to characterize the soft tissues of the lower limbs to better understand injury and potential tissue-engineered replacements and therapies.

Ellen Rumley

16 CU Engineering students earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2020

April 13, 2020

Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Engineering and Applied Science have earned prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation including mechanical engineering's Ellen Rumley.

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COVID-19 test, PTSD treatment take top honors at New Venture Challenge

April 10, 2020

Six NVC finalists, including Soulutions, a mechanical engineering senior design, left the event with at least $10,000 or more in their pockets. They were selected from a starting pool of 146 competitors, a record for the NVC.

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