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Engineering New Solutions to Joint Damage and Osteoarthritis

Jan. 10, 2017

"We can rebuild him. We have the technology," began every episode of the television show The Six Million Dollar Man. Unfortunately, in the real world, medicine has not been able to create flawless substitutes for human body parts. The devices we have, like replacement knees and hips, are imperfect and often wear out and must be swapped out again. Associate Professor Corey Neu would like to change that, using material from...

Xiaokun Gu

Outstanding Dissertation Award for Xiaokun Gu

Nov. 23, 2016

Congratulations to mechanical engineering PhD student Xiaokun Gu, winner of the Winter 2016 Outstanding...

Victor Bright with his researchers in front of the Boulder Flatiron mountains.

Big Sound from Nanoengineered Speakers

Oct. 27, 2016

At a concert, bigger is better when it comes to amplifiers and speakers, but research in CU Boulder mechanical engineering professor Victor Bright's Multidisciplinary Engineering Micro-Systems Group is demonstrating that small speakers can produce big sound too. How small? Fewer than 300 atoms thick. Listen to a clip of music...

Ronggui Yang

Yang to serve as associate editor of two scientific journals

July 25, 2016

Ronggui Yang, professor of mechanical engineering, will serve as an associate editor of two scientific journals— Heat Transfer Research and the Journal of Heat Transfer . The Journal of Heat Transfer is a transaction of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a premier journal in the field of...

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