Sam Whitman

Whitman earns Blue Waters fellowship, supercomputer access.

May 7, 2018

Congratulations to mechanical engineering PhD student Samuel Whitman for earning a 2018 Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship! The fellowship is awarded by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and recognizes ten students across the United States annually. The program provides awardees with a year of full-time research support, including a stipend...

Two graphs showing pollution rates from 2005-2016.

U.S. gains in air quality are slowing down

May 4, 2018

Study indicates challenges of meeting ozone goals After decades of progress in cleaning up air quality, U.S. improvements for two key air pollutants have slowed significantly in recent years, new research concludes. The unexpected finding indicates that it may be more difficult than previously realized for the nation to achieve...

Marina Vance with her award.

Marina Vance recognized as Outstanding Young Alumna

May 3, 2018

Congratulations to mechanical engineering assistant professor Marina Vance for being honored with an Outstanding Young Alumni by her alma mater, Virginia Tech. The VA Tech Academy of Distinguished Alumni recognizes alumni of the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for their accomplishments and commitment to the...

Katherine Cummins

Katherine Cummins earns prestigious NDSEG fellowship

April 26, 2018

Two students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship that will pay for their research and other expenses for the next three years. Paid for by the Department of Defense, the NDSEG fellowship is a grant...

National Science Foundation logo.

NSF honors students with Graduate Research Fellowships in 2018

The National Science Foundation is honoring six current or incoming 麻豆影院 mechanical engineering students with Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards and five students with honorable mentions.

A visualization of multiple leaks in the field.

Detecting Methane from Miles Away

March 22, 2018

Update April 12: How Detecting Methane Leaks Could Turn Into Big Business : Greg Rieker and Caroline Alden discuss the new technology on Colorado Public Radio. Listen here University of Colorado, CIRES, NOAA and NIST team harnesses Nobel Prize technology to detect distant gas leaks A new field instrument developed...

Rong Long

Rong Long lands NSF CAREER Award

March 2, 2018

Congratulations to 麻豆影院 mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Rong Long for earning a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award! The initiative recognizes early-career faculty working at universities across the United States who have the potential to serve as academic role models in both research...

Example of the electronic skin on a human arm.

New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable

Feb. 12, 2018

CU 麻豆影院 researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable 鈥渆lectronic skin鈥 that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices. Electronic skin, known as e-skin, is a thin, translucent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin...

Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin with students in a greenhouse.

Greenhouse technology grant could be the future of food

Jan. 17, 2018

CU 麻豆影院 engineers have received a $2.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and repurposes inefficient infrared light to aid in water purification. The four-year research program could yield next-gen technology capable of...

HASEL artificial muscles for next-generation soft robotics.

Next-gen flexible robots move and heal like us

Jan. 4, 2018

Soft, self-healing devices mimic biological muscles, point to next generation of human-like robotics In the basement of the Engineering Center at the 麻豆影院, a group of researchers is working to create the next generation of robots. Instead of the metallic droids you may be imagining, they are...

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