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MechE Student News - February 2022

MechE students,

I am thrilled to announce that the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering has elected a new chair. Professor Peter Hamlington will step into his new role this July. He and I are working closely this semester for a smooth transition. The department is also gearing up for a new entryway in the Engineering Center, which includes a community center and dedicated career space. Construction on the entryway remodel began on Monday, Feb. 14 and is anticipated to be completed in June. 

Despite these announcements, I do not want us to forget how difficult this semester has been for so many. The new year began with the Marshall Fire destroying many of our friends and families’ homes. Then the omicron variant forced us to start the semester remotely for safety. Those who are suffering from the fire and pandemic are in my thoughts. While we are still feeling this grief and frustration, we as a department are moving forward together. This semester is further proof of how resilient our community is, and I am humbled to be a part of it.

Sincerely,

Mike Hannigan
Department Chair

News and Announcements

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Mechanical Engineering Entryway Remodel

The department is remodeling its entryway in the Engineering Center - adding a new front desk, community center and dedicated career space. The renovations will give mechanical engineering community members another place to gather and provide students improved access to resources to achieve their academic and career goals.

student interns

2022 Summer Internship-for-Credit Program

We are excited to announce the return of the Summer Internship-for-Credit Program – an opportunity for mechanical engineering students to work with start-ups, small businesses and non-profits in summer 2022. We will have updates in March about the student application process. For now, learn more about the program through this link and read about the experiences of the summer 2021 interns here.

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Spend Maymester in the nation’s capital

Looking for a way to expand your global horizons this summer without needing a passport? CU in D.C. is now accepting applications for two new programs in May. Apply by March 1.

  • ​Global Seminar: CU in D.C. – Our Sustainable Future
  • Global Seminar: CU in D.C. – Science Policy​

 

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Upcoming Events

Volunteer event: Early Engineering Exposure (Triple E) Fair
Tuesday, March 1 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Rec Center

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Curiosity Lab
March 8 and April 5

Rocky Mountain Mechanics Seminar Series
Fridays | 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. | In-person at the Discovery Learning Center

Seminar: Can biological materials inspire better engineering materials?
Wednesday, Mar. 16 | 12 p.m. | Virtual event

More News and Events

Student Features

Ahmed Ashmaig

An inside look: Completing a co-op at Tesla

Professional Development Undergraduate Students Education
Ahmed Ashmaig is a junior majoring in mechanical engineering and co-president of the National Society of Black Engineers Boulder Chapter. He spent the fall semester participating in a co-op at Tesla in Fremont, California.
Mitch Fulton

PhD student Mitchell Fulton won international medical imaging challenge

Graduate Students Graduate Student Research Honors & Awards Education
Mechanical engineering student Mitchell Fulton won 'Best Performing Method' for a paper detailing his novel approach to autonomously identify regions of the heart using MRI scan images at the M&Ms-2 Challenge.

Learn About ME Courses

Design of Coffee

ME Course Column: Design of Coffee

Education Undergraduate Students Graduate Students
Those with a love for coffee can find their place in MCEN 4228/5228: Design of Coffee. The course shows junior, senior and graduate-level students how to use their training to solve problems outside the traditional engineering field by roasting and brewing coffee.
Component Design

ME Course Column: Component Design

Education Undergraduate Students
From bicycles and scooters to mock race cars and firetrucks, drill-powered vehicles built by Component Design students zoomed around Kittredge Pond in fall 2021 for the first time since the pandemic began.
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ME Course Column: Design for Inclusion

Education Undergraduate Students Graduate Students
The racial reckoning in summer 2020 led to an awakening in our consciousness – a need for everyone to look inward and tackle our own unconscious biases. Professor Janet Tsai is asking students to question these preconceived notions when it comes to mechanical engineering as well.

Alumni Stories

Elle Sandifer

Alumni Spotlight: Elle Sandifer - Working with Sanergy to address international sanitation challenges

Outreach
Elle Sandifer is a 2020 graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, she worked as a process engineer with Sanergy to address urban sanitation challenges in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kevin Martin

Alumni Spotlight: Kevin Martin - unspun named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2021

Entrepreneurship
Kevin Martin's (MechEngr'16) startup earned the accolade for its 3D-weaving machine used to produce a seamless pair of jeans. The technology was first prototyped in the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Senior Design course.
Michael Lewis

Alumni Spotlight: Michael Lewis - From mechanical engineer to heart surgeon

Biomedical
Alumnus Michael Lewis (MechEngr’00) took an interdisciplinary education to the next level. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and working at Boeing for a year, he discovered another way to help people – through medicine.
Jeanne Barthold

Alumni Spotlight: Jeanne Barthold - TissueForm

Entrepreneurship
Jeanne Barthold is a CU Boulder alumna and founder of TissueForm - a company that has developed a platform technology for the biomimicry of body tissues to repair areas of significant tissue loss or injury.

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

Research News

Inside the researcher's lab

How does Marshall Fire smoke affect indoor, outdoor air quality?

Air Quality
Professors Michael Hannigan and Marina Vance join scientists from CIRES and NOAA to install instruments in surviving houses to understand the smoke impacts on indoor air quality.
LA traffic

As Los Angeles traffic slowed amid pandemic, researchers gained air pollution insights

Air Quality
A team of scientists led by the Department of Mechanical Engineering are using the once-in-a-lifetime event to answer an unusual question: How much do vehicles in a city like Los Angeles add to the ammonia emissions that can hang in the air and sicken residents?
Exoplanet mapping instrument

Bringing space inside the lab: Researchers replicate the climates of exoplanets to help find extraterrestrial life

Thermo Fluid Sciences
Professor Greg Rieker and Ryan Cole (PhDMechEngr’21) have developed an experiment that recreates the climates of planets beyond our solar system right in the lab. By reaching the same high-temperature and high-pressure conditions found on many exoplanets, the instrument can map their atmospheres, which could help humanity detect life outside our solar system.
Tissues

Nuclear deformation research could advance artificial tissue engineering

Graduate Student Research Biomedical Graduate Students Education
Professor Corey Neu and Benjamin Seelbinder's (PhDMech’19) work, now published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, looks at how cells adapt to their environment and how a mechanical environment influences a cell. Their research has the potential to tackle major health obstacles.

More Research News

This newsletter is produced by the Mechanical Engineering communications team for all ME students. Submit news and events for this newsletter. Have feedback? Email mecheng@colorado.edu.

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