Mechanical Engineering Department Highlights

Mines Robotics Team wins NASA-funded competition

Mines Robotics Team wins NASA-funded competition

Members of the Mines Robotics team describe their design and the NASA competition in the latest news feature from the Mines News ... Read more

Advanced Industry Grant Awarded to Dr. Andrew Petruska for Work on Balance Therapy

Advanced Industry Grant Awarded to Dr. Andrew Petruska for Work on Balance Therapy

The Colorado Global Business Development division of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced ... Read more

CUSTOM SKI DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING EVENT HIGHLIGHTED BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

CUSTOM SKI DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING EVENT HIGHLIGHTED BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Owen Hildreth, Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor at Colorado School of Mines, sponsored a manufacturing education event with ... Read more

Rob Braun named University Distinguished Professor

Rob Braun named University Distinguished Professor

Rob Braun, Rowlinson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, leads the Advanced Energy Systems group (https://aes.mines.edu) at Colorado ... Read more

Mines professor aims to slash additive manufacturing costs, keep printers in U.S.

Mines professor aims to slash additive manufacturing costs, keep printers in U.S.

Owen Hildreth, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has developed a low-cost chemical post-processing method to cut the ... Read more

Human Center Design Studio – Assistive Rollerblade Prototype presented to Veteran

Human Center Design Studio – Assistive Rollerblade Prototype presented to Veteran

9News in Colorado profiled a Senior Design adaptive rollerblade project this week.  The concept was brought to the Colardo School of ... Read more

Gene Haas Foundation Scholarships presented to Mines Mechanical Engineering students.

Gene Haas Foundation Scholarships presented to Mines Mechanical Engineering students.

Congratulations to the Colorado School of Mines - Mechanical Engineering Gene Haas Foundation scholarship winners.  The Gene Haas ... Read more

Colorado School of Mines part of multi-university team selected by DoD for supply chain research.

Colorado School of Mines part of multi-university team selected by DoD for supply chain research.

Principal investigators from each institution include Professor Joshua Busby, LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Strauss Center for ... Read more

Mines Mechanical Engineering Professor Leads Community Energy Efficiency Project

Mines Mechanical Engineering Professor Leads Community Energy Efficiency Project

A project led by a Colorado School of Mines professor Paulo Tabares Velasco aims to increase energy efficiency and carbon ... Read more

Expert Faculty Advisor on Energy Savings Analysis

Expert Faculty Advisor on Energy Savings Analysis

  Faculty experts are often sought after to advise and comment on energy topics.  Recently, local news outlet 9News in Denver ... Read more

Undergraduate Research Symposium Award Winner Ye Jin, Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate Research Symposium Award Winner Ye Jin, Mechanical Engineering

Guest lecturers inspire Orediggers -- as was the case for Ye Jin (Senior, Mechanical Engineering).  During his junior year in the ... Read more

Xiaoli Zhang, Mines faculty, teaching robots how to think, share information

Xiaoli Zhang, Mines faculty, teaching robots how to think, share information

From the Mines Newsroom: Mines faculty teaching robots how to think, share information.  Many manufacturing processes today rely on ... Read more