News: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Collage of students
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51ԹϺ’s Research & Creative Honors Program provides undergraduates with unique opportunities that prepare them for graduate studies.

Greg Lull leans against a wall
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51ԹϺ grad brings an engineering mindset to his role as chief marketing officer for Credit Karma

An illustration of a drone
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51ԹϺ engineers developed a team of drones that detect radioactivity in areas where it’s unsafe or unfeasible for other trackers to go.

man in white lab coat
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Solar power is the future of energy, and this undergraduate engineering student is working on the future of solar cells.

Kwang Kim and his mentees.
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51ԹϺ engineer Kwang Kim was one of 155 academic inventors to be named a 2017 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow.

Two students practice swordfighting
Campus News |

From magic and witchcraft to building robots using Legos, these wild courses can put swordfighters in training and future presidents ready to deal with environmental catastrophe.

51ԹϺ students in caps and gowns celebrating commencement
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51ԹϺ president will highlight exceptional students at commencement who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.

Michelle Quizon
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Commencement speaker Michelle Quizon is searching for the right materials to help build artificial organs that could help make diabetes a thing of the past.

Engineering students use a laptop and tools to fix two box-like robots
Campus News |

Rebel Robotics team wins out over more than a dozen schools in American Society of Mechanical Engineers competition; takes on world next.

Portrait of Mechanical Engineering Professor Kwang J. Kim, Ph.D.
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Kwang Kim, a 2018 Distinguished Professor, work in biomedical engineering is inspiring a new generation of researchers.

Hailey Dawson shows off her mechanical hand
Business and Community |

March 31 game marks 8-year-old Las Vegas girl Hailey Dawson's first Major League Baseball park pitch in 2018 using her 51ԹϺ 3D-printed hand.

Portrait of Milo Ocampo
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The co-founder of 51ԹϺ’s first esports organization on building community among gamers and 51ԹϺ’s chances of winning its first Mountain West Showdown.