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MechE Student News - April 2022

MechE students,

As the year comes to an end, I am happy to reflect on all the success that the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering has accomplished. From our graduate students’ outreach efforts to continued groundbreaking research from faculty, I am proud of everything we have achieved this year.

I am thrilled that we will be able to celebrate these successes with each other at the spring in-person graduation ceremonies, with alumnus Craig Sampson, the founder of TBD Innovation, as our keynote speaker. It will be a joy to watch graduating students receive your diplomas after the challenges of the past two years.

Our department felt that same pride at the 2022 Engineering Projects Expo, the first time the event was held in person since 2019. If you have not already, I invite you to learn more about your friends' designs and how their projects will impact society. Thank you for supporting your fellow students. 

Sincerely,

Michael Hannigan
Department Chair

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Celebrate Our Graduates

Congrats Class of 2022

MechE Spring 2022 Graduate Yearbook

With just over a week until graduation, we are celebrating our graduates! We are proud of each of our graduates and excited to see how each of you will impact the world. The Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering thanks everyone who plans to celebrate our graduates with our in-person Graduation Recognition Ceremony on Saturday, May 7.

all award winners

Mechanical engineering graduates earn CU Engineering and Departmental Awards

Undergraduate Students Honors & Awards Outstanding Student Award Education
Four graduating undergraduate students won college awards, while three undergraduate students were honored with Department of Mechanical Engineering Awards.
Craig Sampson

Meet Graduation Recognition Ceremony Keynote Speaker Craig Sampson

Education
Alumnus Craig Sampson (MechEngr’82) is the founder and leader of the Chicago consulting firm TBD Innovation. He will be delivering the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s keynote speech during the Graduation Recognition Ceremony on Saturday, May 7.
Medtronic

Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Projects 2022

Undergraduate Students Education Entrepreneurship
Since August 2021, more than 200 mechanical engineering students have been working through the design process from start to finish and have engineered solutions to real-world problems.
Urchin merchants

Senior Design Feature Stories

Five teams were featured leading up to the Engineering Projects Expo. Read about your classmates' work and how each of their designs could make a positive impact on the world.

Student Features

NSF logo

NSF honors mechanical engineering students with Graduate Research Fellowships

Graduate Students Graduate Student Research Honors & Awards Education
The National Science Foundation has awarded two Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering students with Graduate Research Fellowships and two students with honorable mentions.
Riley McGill

An inside look: Undergraduate research with the Animal Inspired Motion and Robotics Lab

Undergraduate Student Research Undergraduate Students Professional Development Education
Riley McGill is a sophomore in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has been helping build a small, six-legged robot in Professor Kaushik Jayaram’s Animal Inspired Motion and Robotics Lab (AIMRL).
Jaylene Martinez

PhD student Jaylene Martinez wins Best Poster Award at American Chemical Society Meeting

Graduate Student Research Graduate Students Honors & Awards Education
The Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering recognized Martinez's research on membrane technologies that can ensure more scientifically reliable water treatment filtration systems.

Learn About ME Courses

CAD hand remodeled

ME Course Column: Bio-inspired Robotics

Education Robotics and Systems Design
Bio-inspired robotics is the interface of biology and engineering – motivating the development of technology from artificial muscles and medical devices to gecko-inspired adhesives and robots that run, fly and swim. MCEN 4228/5228: Bio-inspired Robotics introduces engineers to this area of study.
Mechanics of Snow

ME Course Column: Mechanics of Snow

Education Mechanics of Materials
MCEN 4228/5228: Mechanics of Snow motivates students to look at natural materials in an analytical way. The idea behind the course is to teach students the science behind certain phenomena by looking at the fundamentals of snow and ice from the atomic level to the mechanics of the snowpack.
mechanics of cancer

ME Course Column: Mechanics of Cancer

Education Undergraduate Students Graduate Students
Students learn how solid and fluid mechanics play a role in how cancer cells interact and form solid tumors. Taught by Professor Maureen Lynch, the class examines the experimental systems and technical evaluations of the disease to model and test cancer-related processes.

Alumni Stories

Sreyas Krishnan

Alumni Spotlight: Sreyas Krishnan - Helping launch ULA rockets into space

Mechanical engineering alumnus Sreyas Krishnan has played a critical role in United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) latest Atlas V rocket launch, which carried another weather satellite into space on Tuesday, March 1.

Want to connect with ME alumni? Email Senior Professional Development Advisor Katherine McConnell.

Outreach and Philanthropy

Triple E Fair

Triple E Fair introduces 117 middle schoolers to mechanical engineering

Outreach Education
The Early Engineering Exposure Fair, organized by mechanical engineering graduate students, was comprised of 16 interactive exhibits to demonstrate diverse engineering fields such as air quality, wind energy, robotics and microfluids.
Students

Graduate students host high schoolers for engineering outreach event

Graduate Students Outreach Education
The Committee for Equity in Mechanical Engineering invited freshmen from Arrupe Jesuit High School to campus, where they built robots and toured the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory.
Hannigan and Knight

Michael Hannigan and Daniel Knight earn Outreach Award for K-12 soil quality education

Outreach Honors & Awards
Department Chair Michael Hannigan and Research Associate Daniel Knight will be using the $24,000 grant to expand their outreach program that engages K-12 students to conduct their own soil quality research.

Research News

3D printer

How to print a robot from scratch: Combining liquids, solids could lead to faster, more flexible 3D creations

Professor Robert MacCurdy has developed a new way to 3D-print liquid and solid materials together, potentially leading to more dynamic and useful products—from robots to wearable electronic devices.
Fire ants

The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots

A new study led by Professor Franck Vernerey lays out the simple physics-based rules that govern how these ant rafts morph over time: shrinking, expanding or growing long protrusions like an elephant’s trunk. The team’s findings could one day help researchers design robots that work together in swarms or next-generation materials in which molecules migrate to fix damaged spots.
in-silico model

Computer-simulated heart flow model could help treat pediatric heart disease patients

Biomedical
Research from Professor Debanjan Mukherjee and a collaborative team of biomedical engineers, physicians and researchers could enable significant advances for the 40,000 pediatric congenital heart disease patients (CHD) born each year.
miniature microscopes

Research collaboration explores multiple methods for brain imaging

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Anschutz Medical Campus are exploring several imaging techniques aimed at creating miniature microscopes that are lightweight enough to be worn by freely moving mice as they navigate a maze or socialize with other mice.

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