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MechE Student News - July 2019

MechE Students, 

As we approach the start of fall 2019, there is much to look forward to. First, check out our new online Design Your Career resources to help you navigate professional development opportunities. Next, I hope you'll introduce yourself to our 12 new ME professors and instructors; they are excited to meet you! Have a great start of the semester. 

Go buffs, 

Mike Hannigan
Department Chair

Teaching child at Engineering Projects Expo 2019

Judges and public select top mechanical engineering Senior Design and Graduate Design projects at Expo 2019

Judges and public voted on Expo 2019 engineering projects they found to be most impressive. Six mechanical engineering teams received awards. Learn more about this year's Senior Design and Graduate Design projects and view our album of photos from the event.

Student Spotlight

RoboBoat

Small but creative RoboBoat Club improvises during world competition

A team of CU Boulder engineering and computer science students designed and built a fully autonomous robotic boat and took it on the road to an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) competition June 17–23 in Florida.
Stride Tech walker

Engineering grads’ high-tech walker could keep seniors from falling

Expo
Four ME undergraduates worked with senior residents to test an invention for walkers that could help prevent debilitating falls. The team, known as Stride Tech, received the first-place prize of $100,000 at the New Venture Challenge.
NSF logo

Six CU mechanical engineering graduate students awarded NSF fellowship

The NSF GRFP supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines pursuing research-based graduate degrees. Six CU mechanical engineering students received awards in 2019 along with one honorable mention.

Brent Frieden

Meet our spring 2019 Outstanding Graduates

Meet our 2019 Outstanding Graduates Brent Frieden, Curtis Gile, Simon Hafner and Spencer Miller who have had unique international experiences, are high achievers and are focused on positive impact. 

Alumni Spotlight

Micah Prendergast works on Endoculus robotic capsule endoscope

Micah Prendergast, in vivo navigation and localization expert

Meet Micah Prendergast (PhDMechEngr'19), expert in navigation and localization for the Endoculus, a robotic capsule endoscope developed in Mark Rentschler’s lab. For a robot making its way through the colon, navigation is no easy task.
Molon Labe Seating

Molon Labe Seating could improve desirability of the middle seat on airplanes

Alumnus Kevin VanLiere (MechEngr‘95) is working with aerospace engineering Lecturer Hank Scott to improve the design of "the middle seat" on airplanes. VanLiere is President and Scott is CEO and founder of Molon Labe Seating.

Research Spotlight

Keplinger scorpion soft robotics toolkit

Toolkit allows broad audience to make artificial muscles

Robotics and Systems Design
Researchers in Christoph Keplinger’s lab released a toolkit to show a broad audience how to create their own artificial muscles. They hope this will expedite the development of wearable, surgical and collaborative robots that safely and effectively help humans.
Formosa and endoculus

A robot may one day perform your colonoscopy

Robotics and Systems Design Biomedical
Researchers in Mark Rentschler's lab designed a robot to navigate the unpredictable terrain of the intestine. The group hopes the robot will change how people across the United States get colonoscopies, making these common procedures easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.
miniature microscope

Researchers win grant to commercialize miniature microscope

Micro/Nanoscale
Victor Bright and a team of CU Boulder and CU Anschutz researchers have received a grant to commercialize a miniature microscope that fits on the head of a mouse and can peer deeply inside the living brain.
cooling wood

CU Boulder and University of Maryland create cooling wood, an eco-friendly building material

Materials
What if the wood used to build your house could decrease your electricity bill? In the race to save energy, Xiaobo Yin at CU Boulder and researchers at the University of Maryland have uncovered a way for buildings to dump heat.
e-skin

Self-healing, fully-recyclable electronic skin has new applications

Mechanics of Materials
CU Boulder researchers Jianliang Xiao and Wei Zhang have developed self-healing, fully-recyclable electronic skin that is completely recyclable. They are now investigating applications surrounding the material's ability to shapeshift.
heart

Innovative mechanobiology research expands subcellular understanding

Professor Corey Neu collaborated with researchers at CSU to develop a technology called Deformation Microscopy, capable of non-invasively probing the mechanics of biological systems in high resolution and imaging cells.
Nail Salon Research

Colorado nail salon workers face chronic air pollution, elevated cancer risk

PhD candidate Aaron Lamplugh is working with Lupita Montoya on ways to reduce VOC concentrations in nail salons using low-cost, absorbent materials like heat-treated coal or wood.

Education & Outreach Spotlight

New CU Boulder Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty

12 new mechanical engineering faculty join the CU Boulder team

The 2019-20 academic year brings 12 new faculty members to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder.
Catalyze at CU Boulder

Six teams kick off Catalyze CU startup accelerator

Six student teams are participating in CU Boulder’s Catalyze CU startup accelerator. They have access to skill-building workshops and mentoring with local business leaders and can earn up to $5,000 in equity-free funding.
Biomedical engineering at CU Boulder

New biomedical engineering degrees to launch at CU Boulder

The CU Board of Regents approved new degrees in biomedical engineering. Through these degrees, students will have the chance to pursue classes across the university in engineering, biology and mathematics.

Upcoming Events & Opportunities

Catalyze CU Demo Day - Sun, 8/25
Distinguished Seminar Speaker Series - Fridays 9/6, 9/27, 10/18, 11/15, 10/4, 10/25 
Careers in ME Symposium - Tue, 9/10
ME Alumni Connect Day - Fri, 11/8

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