Thank you for considering the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder for your graduate studies. We invite you to learn more about the professors in our department currently interested in recruiting graduate students. Watch the videos below to see the research presentations they recorded for our virtual spring 2022 Graduate Engineering Annual Research and Recruitment Symposium (GEARRS). Note that this list is not complete. For more information and to inquire about opportunities with other faculty members, check out our research overview slides. 

Chunmei Ban

​"Surface engineering for a sustainable future."

Nick Bottenus

"Our mission is to bring the value of ultrasound imaging to more patients in more situations with greater clarity and utility than ever before."

Carson Bruns

"We leverage the emergent properties of nanomaterials to design technologies that solve problems in biomedical, energy, and manufacturing domains."

Peter Hamlington

"The Turbulence and Energy Systems Laboratory (TESLa) focuses on numerical simulations of turbulence for fundamental flow analyses, model development, design optimization, and performance analysis."

Robert MacCurdy

"The Matter Assembly Computation Lab (MACLab) develops new algorithms, materials, and print methods to enable design and print on-demand of functional artefacts, from personalized surgical planning models to soft robots customized for a specific user’s needs."

Hope Michelsen

"Our work aims to develop an understanding of soot and other carbonaceous-particle formation in order to reduce their emissions, mitigate their impacts on air quality, human health, and climate change, and control their characteristics for commercial applications."

Greg Rieker

"Laser technologies to transform and improve our future."

Gregory L. Whiting

"Using additive manufacturing techniques, we can engineer unconventional electronic systems able to address a wide range of important issues in areas including agriculture, energy generation, robotics, assistive technologies, and off-planet manufacturing."