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I am a sophomore pursuing mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering. I love learning outside the classroom and currently am a DLA student studying how disease affects bone structure and composition. In the future, I hope to work projects involving space travel and human habitation on Mars.

I am a sophomore in Mechanical Engineering from Northern California who enjoys being outdoors, especially when skiing or rowing. I love to travel to experience new cultures and appreciate history and architecture. I plan to use my degree to work with prosthetics and artificial limbs/muscles, and to continue research in...

I come from a beautiful town in the coast of Spain called Tarragona where the combination of beaches, food and environment make it probably the best place to live in the planet. After graduating as a civil engineer in Technical University Barcelona and working a full year at a water...

The CU Boulder Engineering GoldShirt program in the BOLD Center helps students from underserved backgrounds prosper in engineering -- and now it's being adopted outside Colorado. GoldShirt works like red shirting in athletics. Motivated students who want to be engineers, but didn’t have the opportunity to get fully prepared in...

ME Graduate wins 2016 CU Boulder Alumni Recognition Award Gary Anderson (MechEngr '69) worked hard for his CU Boulder degree, and not just in the classroom: Student by day, he drove a forklift at night to support his young family. Now a retired business executive, he’s never forgotten what balancing...

Tanya Schulz (MechEngr ’17) is thinking small, very small, so small you can't see it with a microscope small. She’s spent her summer researching nanotechnology. It's the kind of work that requires a super computer and you might think is reserved only for post-doctoral students, but Schulz is a mechanical...

Zhengwei Li is a senior PhD student working with Professor Jianliang Xiao. Li's work spans a few different areas, including mechanics of stretchable electronics and optoelectronics, mechanics of soft materials, stretchable thin film, optical functional materials and nanomaterials. He is now studying hierarchical wrinkling of thin films on both flat...

Alex is a fourth year PhD student who has been investigating atomic layer deposited thin films for ultrabarriers and corrosion protection of thin metal films. He has had the opportunity to conduct his research both on campus at CU and at ALD Nanosolutions. Prior to graduate school, Alex received his...

I am a senior in mechanical engineering and appreciate being selected as Student of the Month. I’ll take this moment to recognize the quality of both my peers and the faculty in the ME and APPM departments. The depth of knowledge present and the fervor for science and quality of...

In this case, undergraduate seniors Dane Ballou, Chip Bollendonk, Scott Lanning, Kevin Martin, and Nico Pinkowski worked with Lockheed Martin Space Systems to design a CubeSat Deployer prototype for NASA's Orion program. CubeSats are tiny satellites the size of a loaf of bread.