Education

I am a senior in mechanical engineering and appreciate being selected as Student of the Month. I’ll take this moment to recognize the quality of both my peers and the faculty in the ME and APPM departments. The depth of knowledge present and the fervor for science and quality of...

Masoud has gone through a long journey before joining the PhD program in Fall 2015.

Chip is a senior pursuing a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor in Leadership.

Focus Area: Soft Materials - Keplinger Group Tim is a third year PhD student studying with Professor Christoph Keplinger. Prior to joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder, Tim received a BS in ceramic engineering and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory studying ceramic properties and processing. He...

Focus Area: Materials Science and Engineering Shanshan is in her third year of graduate school, working with Professors Y.C. Lee and Ronggui Yang in the field of thermal management of mobile electronics. She has made the thinnest thermal ground planes with 3.5 times effective thermal conductivity than that that of...

Focus Area: Biomaterials and Biomimetrics - Ferguson Group Chelsea is a third-year PhD student working in the Biomaterials & Biomimetics lab for Dr. Virginia Ferguson. Chelsea came to CU Boulder with a Master's Degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Boston University. She loves applying materials science concepts to the...

Focus Area: Air Quality - Shelly Miller Group I am a PhD student of mechanical engineering working with Prof. Shelly Miller in the field of indoor air quality. For my research, I am working as the engineering team lead to gather data from hundreds of homes in Colorado that have...

Focus Area: Thermo Fluid Sciences - Greg Rieker Group Paul's research focuses on implementation of frequency comb diagnostics in harsh, combustion environments. He has made the first high-temperature, broadband water measurements to investigate the validity of internationally utilized absorption databases and has recently completed a measurement campaign with Robert Wright,...

Focus Area: Cell and Nuclear Mechanobiology - Corey Neu Group Science and nature fascinated me from an early age and my first lab experience reassured me that I wanted to be involved in biologic research. As a part of my first project, I collected data for my bachelor thesis in...