Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin hold a roll of their cooling material.

CU 麻豆影院 metamaterial selected as a top 10 physics breakthrough for 2017

Dec. 12, 2017

Physics World recognizes work by Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin from mechanical engineering.

Elijah Gonzales, a sophomore studying civil engineering, discusses his tactile diagram of an eye with Shalini Menon at a design workshop offered through the Build a Better Book project.

Blind researcher brings magic touch to book project

Dec. 6, 2017

As a research assistant with the Build a Better Book Project, run by computer science Assistant Professor Tom Yeh, Shalini Menon is drawing on her personal experience to teach others how to make books and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning materials more accessible to children who are visually impaired.

The Stateless team toasts to their new funding.

CU 麻豆影院 spinout Stateless raises $1.4 million in seed stage funding

Dec. 5, 2017

Founded by electrical and computer engineers Eric Keller and Murad Kablan, Stateless is revolutionizing software-defined networks by building virtual network functions, such as firewalls and load balancers, that are easy to offer and consume through the 鈥渁s-a-service鈥 model.

Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Mark Rentschler (far right) with graduate students (left to right) Levi Pearson, Greg Formosa and Micah Prendergast with an oversized version of a synthetic colon created as a senior design project.

A robotic small intestine? Researchers are making one

Dec. 4, 2017

Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Mark Rentschler is leading the effort to develop an artificial, robotic small intestine for use in medical laboratories. The research is supported by a $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Volt Vision team in the ITLL

Students develop eye-activated controller for people of all abilities

Nov. 6, 2017

The device, called the Vee Vee, interprets the direction of the eye movement and sends an instruction to an external machine that鈥檚 paired with the wearable device.

A detail view of part of the microscope

CU researchers win BRAIN Initiative grant for miniature microscope

Oct. 3, 2017

From left: Diego Restrepo, Emily Gibson, Juliet Gopinath and Victor Bright. Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the 麻豆影院 have won a $2 million grant allowing them to refine a unique microscope they have developed while expanding its use to other scientists across...

Al Weimer

Professor Alan Weimer Earns AIChE Lifetime Achievement Award

Sept. 18, 2017

The award recognizes Weimer鈥檚 lifetime of scientific achievement, including fundamental understanding, discovery, engineering scale-up and commercialization of processes to synthesize ultrafine ceramic powders and to apply nanoscale films to ultrafine particle surfaces.

Max Armstrong helps an amputee put on his new prosthetic leg.

Affordable prosthetic system could help amputees worldwide

Sept. 13, 2017

Few people figure out how they want to change the world in middle school. But in eighth grade, Peter 鈥淢ax鈥 Armstrong -- now a third-year mechanical engineering major -- did just that.

Ronggui Yang in a lab with two students.

Yang studies thermal problems of futuristic electronics

Aug. 25, 2017

(From left) PhD student Xin Qian, post doctoral researcher Puqing Jiang, and mechanical engineering professor Ronggui Yang in Yang's laboratory at CU 麻豆影院. Ronggui Yang knows people want faster, more powerful electronic devices. Whether it is a new laptop, cell phone, smart TV, or technology for electric vehicles and the...

Magnesium ingot

A thoroughly modern magnesium process

Aug. 4, 2017

CU 麻豆影院 engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today鈥檚 leading methods. The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of Professor Alan Weimer, could vastly improve production of the strong, lightweight metal that鈥檚 used in everything from vehicles and aircraft to dietary supplements and fireworks.

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