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Zayd Leseman, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop methods for modeling and characterizing Phononic Crystals (PnCs). PnCs are a type of micro/nanostructure capable of ...

Last Wednesday, civil engineering students lined up for the opportunity to ‘dunk' their professors at a fundraiser for an annual CE competition. The event, hosted by UNM's student chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Chi Epsilon, an ...

By Tamara WilliamsThe demonstration started with just a trickle of water meandering down the 65' channel. The blue-tinted water rushed along, gushing over the channel's sides in some places, simulating a flood along the North Diversion Channel. It ...

Life is about to get better for undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering with a new $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will provide paid internships with participating companies and national ...

Karl Kharas recently drove to Albuquerque using green diesel made from natural gas. He had just enough fuel to complete the roundtrip from Denver in an Audi sporting the logo, "Eureka! Diesel drives the future."Kharas is a scientist who works at Rentech, ...

New Mexico state legislators and leaders and researchers from UNM and Sandia National Laboratories attended the grand opening of the Nanomaterials and Nanomedicine Lab, the School of Engineering's newest laboratory, on Aug. 23.The lab will serve as ...

Organizers of the 23rd Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials have issued a call for papers. The Symposium allows researchers in the Rio Grande geographic region to exchange technical information. The Symposium is an outgrowth of the Joint ...

The Configurable Space Microsystems and Application Center (COSMIAC) hosts the 2011 ReSpace and MAPLD conference at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel this week. The conference promotes discussion of recent advances in reconfigurable electronics and ...

Accelerated studies of mental illness with unique neuroimaging techniques and an expanded network for research has been advanced with $3.2 million in awards this summer to The Mind Research Network (MRN). The awards include a National Institutes of ...

It was really tough - and they want to do it again. In June, 9 members of UNM's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter, including current and recent UNM students, practicing engineers and faculty members, spent two and a half weeks in two small Bolivian ...