School of Engineering

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...

Faculty members in The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering have received more than $2 million in separate grants from the Nuclear Energy University Program, a part of the Department of Energy, as well as a faculty development award...

The University of New Mexico is saying goodbye to two employees whose dedication to the institution, the community and each other have left a permanent mark on Main Campus. Amy Wohlert and Joe Cecchi have given UNM more than four decades of combined...

A project to develop new ultrafast laser transmitter technology at The University of New Mexico is expected to have a revolutionary impact on the physics of semiconductor lasers, with potential applications that could result in ten times the speed of current fiber optic networks.