Schools and Colleges

A team from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering won first place at the 2017 Spacecraft Robotics Challenge, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). In the competition finals, which took place last weekend at the Albuquerque...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is hosting more than 300 area middle school and high school students for MathMovesU, an event to promote the STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math. It will be held Saturday, Nov....

Seven alumni from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering (SOE) were honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards at a ceremony Nov. 2 at Embassy Suites in Albuquerque. The theme of this year’s event was “A Celebration of Our Student Stars, Past...

As the result of an accreditation review by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET in fall 2016, all of the bachelor’s degree programs in engineering offered by The University of New Mexico School of Engineering have been...

A University of New Mexico student took a leading role this summer in creating a smartphone app that does something no other app can do — visualize atoms using augmented reality. Jonathan Barndt, a junior in the Department of Computer Science, created...

Lydia Tapia, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering, has been awarded the Borg Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association – Women (CRA-W). The award was...

As the need for alternative forms of energy production continues to increase around the world, researchers at The University of New Mexico are working to improve hydrogen fuel cells by better understanding them at the atomic and molecular...

A University of New Mexico undergraduate engineering student thinks algae could solve the problem of arsenic contamination in water. Chase Stearnes says he got the idea after hearing about researchers who were able to use algae to collect and harvest...

The University of New Mexico is part of a new National Science Foundation-funded engineering research center that will develop new technologies to produce fuels from U.S. shale gas deposits that could inject $20 billion annually into the economy. UNM...

A researcher in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has received $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation in two separate grants to study issues of water quality using holistic approaches that have never been attempted...