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There are nearly 100 nuclear power plants across the United States, all of which rely on concrete containment vessels (NCVS) to provide the last layer of safety in case of accident. Some of these vessels exhibit serious signs of aging associated with a slow, but irreversible, degradation of concrete known...

Keats Dormont is making the world a better place through mechanical engineering. The University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate student is part of a new senior design course within the Department of Mechanical Engineering that is transforming student projects into an avenue for positive change in the world. “This is an...

Domino’s, UPS, Amazon, and the United States military are just a few examples of institutions interested in using drones as automated delivery systems for financial, logistical, and environmental reasons. Drones save on employee costs, and they utilize otherwise unused airspace. They are far greener than loading everything into a car...

In the last several years, 3D printing has taken off as a convenient method to creating plastic parts. It has become a relatively cheap and quick way to rapidly prototype a design concept with potentially complex geometries before taking it to large scale production. If there was a way to...

You don’t have to drive far on Colorado’s roads to notice a rapid growth in the renewable energy sector, resulting in wind farm and solar installations statewide. Since 2010, electricity from renewable sources has more than doubled in Colorado, growing to ~20% of the state’s power. As similar trends are...

Paid for by the Department of Defense, the NDSEG fellowship is a grant to encourage doctoral students to pursue research that may assist our nation's defense efforts.

Each year, nearly 41,000 children in Pakistan die from diarrhea caused by contaminated water supplies. Mustafa Naseem, who grew up drinking from those same water supplies, wants to change that. Naseem is an expert-in-residence for the Information and Communication Technology for Development program at the ATLAS Institute . In September,...

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I grew up as an only child and I've had a lot of attention from my parents. I became incredibly dependent on them. As a result, I decided to go off to another country to study engineering as a challenge to...

Mechanical Engineering students at the University of Colorado Boulder are teaming up with research teams nationwide to develop a ground-breaking brain imaging system for pediatric patients. Centered around the incredible µOPM sensor technology developed by the Knappe Research Lab in the ME department at CU Boulder, a team of six...

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose CU Engineering? It gives you the ability to contrive and devise anything from your imagination into the real world. What does the #ILookLikeAnEngineer mean to you? Giving a chance to show the world that engineers are not just bookworms but world leaders. Do you have...