Electrical & Computer Engineering

Two professors in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of New Mexico have received nearly $100,000 from the National Academy of Sciences that will fund work to make railroad bridges safer through the use of drones and lasers.

Movies, books and television shows have all had popular series where a laser, microwave, or particle beam weapon is used to battle the bad guys. Over the past few decades the U.S. military has been working on making this fantasy a reality. They’re called...

A student team from The University of New Mexico placed second in an international autonomous car racing competition. The team, made up of students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, competed in the F1/10 Autonomous Racing...

What is about a foot long, has four wheels, can go 40 miles an hour, is equipped with lasers, and can navigate around a course autonomously? The answer is a student-built vehicle designed to one-tenth scale of a Formula 1 racecar. Students from The...

Francis Salas will graduate from the University of New Mexico with his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering in mid-May. Five years ago even he couldn’t envision this moment. He was in federal prison, nearing the end of a 10-year sentence for drug...

Michael Devetsikiotis, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been selected as the next chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico.  Devetsikiotis is a...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that it has chosen a cohort of inventors from around the world for election as 2015 NAI Fellows. UNM Distinguished Professors Steven R. J. Brueck and C. Jeffrey Brinker were among 168 distinguished...

The University of New Mexico has enjoyed a long history of mutually beneficial collaborations with the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), one of the top three universities for Engineering and Physics in Chile. UNM faculty members are travelling to Chile...

Sanjay Krishna, director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), was one of 77 members of the Optical Society of America (OSA) elected to the latest class of OSA Fellows who have served with distinction in the...

A rainstorm passing through Albuquerque can frizz your home television satellite signal, and degrade signals relaying data from space or across long distances at the radio frequencies we all use now. But what happens when you use frequencies much farther...