Mechanical Engineering

For the first time ever, The University of New Mexico will have a team competing in the Solar Splash solar boat competition, being held June 15-19 in Dayton, Ohio. The team of nine students has been working on the project since last fall, said Lucca...

University of New Mexico student Sean Kerwin will soon receive his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, but his journey was made more difficult when he was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him badly injured. Kerwin began pursuing his...

Mechanical Engineering Professor Yu-Lin Shen spent spring break in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan traveling as an Albuquerque ambassador for the Sister Cities Foundation program and talking about the University of New Mexico.

Athena and Maya Combs-Hurtado have a lot in common. They have the same friends, are interested in the same activities, and often travel together. The twins, born in Venezuela but raised in Albuquerque, now have one more thing they share: they are both...

For the University of New Mexico’s LOBOMotorSports team, it’s been a sweet few years. The team did well at the Formula SAE competitions, and seemed to do better each year. In 2014, the team placed 11th overall. In 2013, they took 12th place, and the team...

Ron Lumia, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has received a Fulbright Scholar award for research and teaching in Thailand. It is second time he has received a Fulbright.  

The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team members just completed an annual program serving as teachers for a three-week engineering class, part of a national program to introduce and interest youth in...

Robots have great value in a wide variety of areas, and while robots acting alone can be helpful in collecting data, ones that “talk” to each other can yield endless potential. That’s especially true when the robots are of different types.

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering takes part in a free-admission event geared toward children at Explora Science Center on Friday, Aug. 8.

What if you could alter your hair to reflect any color in the spectrum?  What if you could use a flatiron to press a pattern into your new hair color?  Those are possibilities suggested by research from the University of New Mexico and...