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UNM places first at solar boating championship
June 10, 2025
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. Read More...

Two UNM engineers receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May 12, 2025
Two students from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering were named recipients of competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Read More...

Mechanical Engineering student selected for NASA internship
May 7, 2025
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. Read More...

UNM’s ASME chapter wins first place at IAM3D drone competition
May 1, 2025
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers chapter won first place in the 2025 IAM3D Challenge drone competition in St. Louis last weekend. Read More...

Engineering Ph.D. student selected for DOE ORISE internship
April 28, 2025
Dimitrios Vrocharis, a Ph.D. student in The University of New Mexico Department of Mechanical Engineering, was selected for a Department of Energy Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (DOE ORISE) fellowship at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to study thermomechanical stresses in additively manufactured parts for rotating detonation combustion. Read More...

Students, donors gather to celebrate success in Mechanical Engineering
April 7, 2025
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering recently hosted the Mechanical Engineering Scholar and Donor Luncheon to connect recipients and donors in celebration of student achievement. Read More...

Student's fire safety research wins ASEE conference award
March 27, 2025
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. Read More...

Mechanical Engineering to host seminar on reservoir computing
February 28, 2025
The University of New Mexico Department of Mechanical Engineering will host a seminar delivered by Louis Pecora, a research scientist at the Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics at University of Maryland titled, “Statistics and Dynamics of Attractor Embeddings in Reservoir Computing.” Read More...

From fireflies to drones: UNM researchers uncover strategy for synchronization efficiency
October 30, 2024
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 Communications. Read More...