Research
- The Rocky Mountain Mechanics Seminar Series provides CU Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº faculty, staff and students with the opportunity to hear from researchers across disciplines from various institutions.
- Mechanical Engineering Professors Michael Hannigan and Marina Vance join scientists from CIRES and NOAA to install instruments in surviving houses to understand the smoke impacts on indoor air quality.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Shelly Miller shares her recent air quality research about COVID-19 transmission with The Conversation.
- Rajagopalan Balaji is a Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and he is changing the way we see climate change.[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC3Awsy61k]
- Professor Jeff Thayer is part of a major new NASA science mission to better understand our sun’s influence on generating space weather.Thayer is one of three interdisciplinary scientists chosen by NASA for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC)
- New Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº research suggests while unvaccinated-only testing policies make sense when the unvaccinated population is large, they have little impact on transmission when there are few remaining unvaccinated people to test.
- Studying emergent behavior has long fascinated engineers, and researchers at the Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº just uncovered a distinct behavior in colonies of fire ants cooperating in flood situations.
- Professor Corey Neu explains how his team found that mechanical forces can reorganize the genetic material inside the nucleus of heart cells and affect how they develop and function.
- New research published in Nature Materials from Associate Professor Tanja Cuk and colleagues sheds light on a fundamental chemical reaction — the breaking apart of water to produce a molecular fuel such as hydrogen. Cuk is faculty in the Department of Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program (MSE) and is a Fellow in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI).
- Professor Greg Rieker and Ryan Cole (PhDMechEngr’21) have developed an experiment that recreates the climates of planets beyond our solar system right in the lab. By reaching the same high-temperature and high-pressure conditions found on many exoplanets, the instrument can map their atmospheres, which could help humanity detect life outside our solar system.