Mechanical Engineering

If life is like a box of chocolates, college advisement might be like a box of Girl Scout cookies. This month, JJ Conn, senior academic advisor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will present a session on how hobbies can inform your work as an...

Yu-Lin Shen, longtime chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has stepped down from the position after 9 years. Shen returned to the faculty as a professor in July and reflected on his time as chair and his insights on leadership in...

The University of New Mexico Solar Splash team was named World Champion of Collegiate Solar Boating over the weekend at the annual Solar Splash competition held in Ohio. UNM Solar Splash is one of the senior design capstone project options for...

Carldon Pascual, a University of New Mexico senior graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, will intern this summer at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. During the internship, he will work on a project titled...

When Erin Lawlor wraps up her semesters as a mechanical engineering student at The University of New Mexico, she returns home to Anchorage, Alaska and spends summers working as a volunteer firefighter. Erin Lawlor Last summer, she spent her free time...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering looked to the natural world to explain how synchronized systems can work more efficiently and made a significant discovery. Their results were published last week in the journal Nature...

A brand new graduate certificate in artificial intelligence and autonomy is coming to The University of New Mexico with the help of a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to a School of Engineering professor. Professor Meeko Oishi...

The Farris Engineering Center was originally built on The University of New Mexico campus in 1967. By the 2000s it was obvious that the building was inadequate for the departments housed there. Distinguished Regents' Professor Emeritus at the Department...

Two students in the UNM Department of Mechanical Engineering are the recipients of 2024-2025 New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Scholarships. The recipients are Alex Atcitty and Micah Wolbrecht. They each will...

Nathan Jackson, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is receiving American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant funding for a pilot study on developing a new way to detect ovarian cancer. The project, being...