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MechE News - April 2022

Alumni, industry partners & friends,

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 our students walk across the graduation stage 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 the students' designs and how their projects will impact society. Thank you for supporting our students.

Sincerely,

Michael Hannigan
Department Chair

Celebrate Our Graduates

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.
Urchins Merchant

Senior Design Feature Stories

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

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.
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.

  • Date: Saturday, May 7
  • Time: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. with a reception to follow on the Business Lawn
  • Doors Open: 1:00 p.m.
  • Location: CU Event Center

Department Highlights

massimo

Massimo Ruzzene named acting vice chancellor, dean of institutes

Provost Russell Moore announced he has appointed Professor Massimo Ruzzene to the post of acting vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes, effective June 1. As associate dean for research in CEAS, he heads the college’s Research Support Office and is also the Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Virginia Ferguson

Virginia Ferguson elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Honors & Awards
The American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering's College of Fellows is a prestigious group comprised of the most accomplished and distinguished engineering and medical school professors, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.
RIO grants

Longji Cui and Gregory Whiting awarded 2022 Research & Innovation Seed Grants

The 2022 Research & Innovation Seed Grants are funding 25 new projects in all for up to $50,000 each. The seed grant program is designed to stimulate new and exciting areas of research and creative work on campus.
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
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.

Student Features

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.
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).

Education & Outreach

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.
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.
Bio-inspired robotics

ME Course Column

The ME Course Column is a recurring publication about the unique classes and labs that mechanical engineers can take while at the University of Colorado Boulder. Read the columns to understand MechE's core curriculum and diverse elective options.

MechE in the News

  • ARS Technica: A few simple rules determine how floating fire ant rafts change shape over time
  • Colorado Sun: The new standards for testing outdoor gear are being created by Colorado university students
  • Science Daily: Head-mounted microscope reaches deeper into mouse brains
  • The ScienceBreaker: E-skin: the future of sustainable & recyclable wearable electronics
  • CSU College News: Breathe in, breathe out: Scientists continue probing chemistry of indoor-air
  • Denver Post: Big universities are reaching into rural Colorado, where shrinking share of high school grads go to college
  • Daily Camera: Colorado Community College System, CU Boulder streamline transfer system

 

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