Articles by Jeff Zehnder

Some inventors toil their entire careers without success. Perry Campbell is not one of those people. The 23-year-old Colorado native has designed a product, built functional prototypes, raised capital, and is now going into business for himself. His product is called the SwissMak, an all-in-one manufacturing tool. “It’s a machine...

Check out our Flickr album from the Topping Out ceremony. Construction of the new University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering building is hitting a major milestone with the installation of the final steel beam. A formal topping-out ceremony was held Wednesday at the building site on campus. The ceremony follows...

Rebecca O'Toole (center) stands with two other award winners at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology. Congratulations to Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD student Rebecca O'Toole for earning first place in the Global Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology. O'Toole's research focuses on...

Mahmoud Hussein has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The distinction is awarded to engineers for outstanding achievements and contributions, and has been bestowed upon only 2% of ASME’s 130,000 members. Hussein, who is an associate professor and Smead Faculty Fellow, is being recognized...

The University of Colorado Boulder Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) cube satellite team is in Washington, DC, this week for Technology Day on the Hill, an annual event demonstrating aerospace technology to members of Congress and their staffs. Sponsored by NASA, the day features both public and private aerospace projects. CU-E3...

Congratulations to mechanical engineering PhD student Samuel Whitman for earning a 2018 Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship! The fellowship is awarded by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and recognizes ten students across the United States annually. The program provides awardees with a year of full-time research support, including a stipend...

Click for a Flickr Album of Expo Photos Lights flashed, buzzers rang and attendees watched with rapt attention at the home of University of Colorado Boulder basketball – but with 143 teams in attendance, this was no basketball game. Welcome to the first ever CU Boulder College of Engineering and...

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...

NASA and SpaceX’s CRS-14 mission with the Dragon spacecraft carrying three different experiments involving the University of Colorado Boulder's Bioserve Space Technologies have successfully arrived at the International Space Station. The first, called Micro 11, is a project in partnership with the University of Kansas centering on reproductive biology. It...