Jun 7, 2024 | Announcements, News, Student Highlights, Uncategorized
Colorado School of Mines has qualified for the finals of NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Competition. The Capstone Design student team, comprised of seven mechanical engineers and three electrical engineers, will compete against 11 other collegiate teams...
Oct 18, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
The research team at the Colorado Fuel Cell Center recently generated 10 kW of carbon-free electricity with hydrogen-fueled solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). This power level is the highest ever demonstrated at the CFCC, and serves as a stepping-stone towards the 30-kW...
Jun 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
My path to Mines I was a doctoral student working with Frank Incropera and Ray Viskanta in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Purdue on a contract from the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), now known as the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). There was...
Jul 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Research at Mines I was hired in 1991 to lead the Department of Engineering – referred to then as “Basic Engineering.” I believe Mines President George Ansell hired me to ramp up the Department to get it into the research mode — to hire faculty to conduct...