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The University of New Mexico’s LOBOMotorSports team placed 11th overall out of 80 international entries at the Formula SAE competition held in Lincoln, Neb. recently.

Birk Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering is teaching the 33-year old Mechanical Engineering Building on the UNM campus to think about energy efficiency.  So far Jones and the ME building have improved energy efficiency between 10 and 15%... 

UNM LOBOMotorSports took 12th place overall out of 80 international entries at the Formula SAE competition in Lincoln, Neb., recently. The team also broke its own records, with the highest point total ever and the highest design place, tied for ...

UNM Mechanical Engineering student Alejandro Perez has been awarded a fellowship considered to be among the world's best. The “la Caixa” scholarships, from the leading savings bank in Spain, are designed for students to continue a ...

The 24th Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials will be held on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 at the Hotel Albuquerque. Organizers are currently soliciting abstracts in all areas of materials science and engineering includingMaterials for Energy ...

Accelerating to 60 mph in four seconds and maintaining almost 2g's as it grips 90 degree corners, the agile black, red and white racecar is a blur. When it stops, "Lead the Pack LOBOMotorsports" and sponsor logos, including those of Lockheed ...

Studying French as an undergraduate came in handy for UNM Mechanical Engineering doctoral student Ben Rael, who is studying the fabrication and physical characterization of nano-composites during his summer internship in Nantes, Frances.Rael was invited ...

The 2012 Popejoy Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Mike Anderson. The award, which was established as a permanent memorial to late UNM President Tom L. Popejoy, recognizes and encourages the highest level of academic excellence among doctoral ...

The UNM School of Engineering will introduce the Building Energy Retrofit Testbed (BERT), a living laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department for experiments designed to optimize energy simulation predictions and actual building operations, at a ...

Zayd Leseman, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop methods for modeling and characterizing Phononic Crystals (PnCs). PnCs are a type of micro/nanostructure capable of ...