Mechanical Engineering

The University of New Mexico’s Solar Splash team won 10 awards during the recent Solar Splash competition, June 5-9 in Springfield, Ohio. The UNM team won fourth place overall and, for the second year in a row, took home the Outstanding Solar System...

As members of a small but well-established program, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team members always know it’s a bit of an uphill battle competing against some of the largest and best-financed programs in...

For the third year in a row, The University of New Mexico will have a team competing in the national Solar Splash solar boat competition June 5-9 in Springfield, Ohio. Cameron Pouncey UNM’s team, made up of students from the departments of Mechanical...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering will be a partner for the 2018 Sandia National Laboratories’ Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Summer Research Institute. The summer program, which brings together graduate students and...

The sound of shrill whistles and chattering students float out of the Monte Vista Elementary School gym, meaning only one thing: race day for the teams and their balloon-powered cars. Mechanical engineering students at The University of New Mexico are...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has received $3 million from the estate of an alumnus, which will benefit students and faculty in the departments of civil engineering and mechanical engineering by creating laboratory and learning...

Mehran Tehrani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Tehrani and only 30 others were selected out of 340 applicants to receive the...

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...

Sang Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of New Meixco, has been awarded one of the Oak Ridge Associate Universities (ORAU) 2017 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards.

Engineers are known for being organized, analytical and prepared with a plan well in advance.