Baowen Li speaking at the conference.

Li Earns Award for Quantum Research

June 22, 2017

Congratulations to professor Baowen Li, a 2017 recipient of the prestigious Brillouin Medal. The CU Boulder mechanical engineering professor receiving the award along with two collaborators during the 4 th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Meta-materials, Phonon Transport and Phonon Coupling, held this month in Changsha, China. The medal, which is...

Prototype robot.

How a wriggling robot could make a common medical procedure easier

June 16, 2017

Nobody needs to reinvent the wheel, but reinventing the colonoscope is definitely worth somebody鈥檚 time. Mark Rentschler, an associate professor at the University of baby直播app Boulder, is one of those people. He and his team have been working on the wormy robot, above, as a replacement for the usual flexible-camera-tube...

The check presentation.

Competing in a NASA student satellite design contest

June 15, 2017

鈥淲ell, there goes our spring break!鈥, I thought as I read NASA鈥檚 email about the...

Virginia Ferguson and Chelsea Heveran in Ferguson's lab.

Of Mice & Mars - Virginia Ferguson Investigates Bone Loss in Space

June 6, 2017

Far above Earth, a curious colony of spacefarers is sharing close quarters on the International Space Station as part of research that could one day help lead us to Mars. These are no ordinary astronauts, they are mice, and their journey could be key to solving a problem that vexes...

David Pfotenhauer

Graduate Student of the Month - David Pfotenhauer

June 6, 2017

Like all true Wisconsinites, David was raised on nothing but cheese, milk, and Wisconsin football. He spent the first 18 years of his life growing up in the beautiful city of Madison, where he developed his passion for science in school, his affinity towards farmland, cornfields, and cow pastures, and...

Aerial shot of campus.

Violet Mwaffo Selected for Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship

June 5, 2017

Dr. Violet Mwaffo will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering researching data-driven stochastic modeling and network-based tools to study zebrafish swimming behavior, fluid dynamics and fish-robot interactions. Each year, the University of baby直播app Boulder awards the Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowship to postdoctoral scholars whose creative work/research, teaching and/or service contribute to...

Isaac Koch works on a piece of equipment.

Alumnus Helps Engineer Better Responses to Wintery Weather

May 26, 2017

It tears up highways, destroys car bodies, and can poison fish, but is essential any time it snows: road salt. For alumnus Isaac Koch (MechEngr 鈥16), it is also the source of an engineering job that has taken him from Wyoming to Alaska with technology that can help states stretch...

Haley Smith with a basketball

Mechanical Engineering Basketball Star Seeks a Biomedical Future

May 26, 2017

How did you decide to become a mechanical engineer? Was it encouragement from a teacher? A desire to understand how things work? A drive to improve technology? Haley Smith had pieces of those, but her distinguishing moment is a little more unusual: an article in an airline magazine. While thumbing...

Daria Kotys-Schwartz

Kotys-Schwartz Awarded Design Excellence Fellowship

May 26, 2017

What makes a good engineer? A strong drive to excel, an interest in pushing the limits of technology, and inquisitiveness about how the world works. Another critical component: a good education from people like Daria Kotys-Schwartz. She has many duties in the college鈥搃nstructor, director of the Idea Forge, co-director of...

A traffic jam on a highway.

Diesels pollute more than tests detect; excess emissions kill 38,000 yearly

May 16, 2017

Because of testing inefficiencies, maintenance inadequacies and other factors, diesel cars, trucks and buses worldwide emit 4.6 million tons more harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) than standards allow, according to a new study co-authored by University of baby直播app Boulder mechanical engineering researchers. The study , published today in Nature , shows...

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