School of Engineering

The 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings were released today and two colleges/schools at The University of New Mexico garnered top-100 rankings including the College of Nursing and the School of Engineering. The highest-ranked UNM...

Computer science student Younes Slaoui was always interested in AI. And thanks to an opportunity he received last spring from Engineering Student Success Center at UNM, he was able to work on a project for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that...

Longtime UNM professor Eva Chi has been selected by Donna Riley, Jim and Ellen King Dean of Engineering and Computing, as the first associate dean for faculty affairs in School of Engineering history. Chi, a professor in the Department of Chemical and...

A new National Science Foundation-funded project is tackling a perplexing problem — that of the toxic heavy metals left behind after uranium mining in Native American communities in New Mexico — from a multifaced angle. Instead of offering a top-down,...

A University of New Mexico professor is leading a Department of Energy (DOE) project that will make significant strides toward revolutionizing the realms of renewable energy and wireless communications. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, an associate...

Eric Lang, an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNM, is the beneficiary of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) program to encourage his professional development as a faculty member. The NRC Distinguished...

A researcher based in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is leading one of 15 projects across the country receiving $11 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. These projects, announced Aug. 10, are focused on exploratory...

As we all endure a record-hot summer that scientists say is largely the result of climate change, the tangible evidence is all around us, including triple-digit temperatures, wildfires, drought and floods. And while the impacts of a changing climate are...

Thanks to taking a chance on an opportunity he never dreamed he’d have, a School of Engineering student spent the summer at an internship at George Mason University developing a software tool that uses artificial intelligence to model and predict...

New Mexico found itself at ground zero of a changed world on July 16, 1945 when scientists from the newly created Los Alamos National Laboratory detonated the world’s first atomic bomb, exposing nearby communities to radiation. Just 34 years later to the...