Mechanical Engineering

Researchers from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering looked to the natural world to explain how synchronized systems can work more efficiently and made a significant discovery. Their results were published last week in the journal Nature...

A brand new graduate certificate in artificial intelligence and autonomy is coming to The University of New Mexico with the help of a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to a School of Engineering professor. Professor Meeko Oishi...

The Farris Engineering Center was originally built on The University of New Mexico campus in 1967. By the 2000s it was obvious that the building was inadequate for the departments housed there. Distinguished Regents' Professor Emeritus at the Department...

Two students in the UNM Department of Mechanical Engineering are the recipients of 2024-2025 New Mexico Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Scholarships. The recipients are Alex Atcitty and Micah Wolbrecht. They each will...

Nathan Jackson, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is receiving American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant funding for a pilot study on developing a new way to detect ovarian cancer. The project, being...

A collaborative project at The University of New Mexico will receive part of $17.6 million in grants the Department of Defense is awarding to 27 collaborative academic teams under the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...

The Formula Society of Automotive Engineering (FSAE) program at The University of New Mexico has recently received a large donation from prominent local restaurant owners. The $25,000 gift, from Dorothy and Larry Rainosek, will go toward the general...

Every May and December, it is exciting to see Lobos walk the graduation stage to receive their diplomas. As the campus community watches our rising stars soar to great new heights, it is a bittersweet time for the campus community as another group of...

Thanks to taking a chance on an opportunity he never dreamed he’d have, a School of Engineering student spent the summer at an internship at George Mason University developing a software tool that uses artificial intelligence to model and predict...

New Mexico found itself at ground zero of a changed world on July 16, 1945 when scientists from the newly created Los Alamos National Laboratory detonated the world’s first atomic bomb, exposing nearby communities to radiation. Just 34 years later to the...