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Five ME faculty members awarded promotion, tenure for 2022-2023
At the April 2022 Mines Board of Trustees meeting, Dr. Andrew Petruska and Dr. Paulo Tabares Velasco were awarded tenure and promoted ... Read more
Craig Brice: “Mines has a far-reaching, rock-solid reputation in the professional world.”
Dr. Craig Brice, a Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Program, first came to ... Read more
New SE@Mines program offers customizable learning experiences in sustainable energy
From the Mines Newsroom: A new signature student experience at Colorado School of Mines will allow undergraduates from all ... Read more
Sowers appointed to NASA advisory council
From the Mines Newsroom: Dr. George Sowers, a professor in the Space Resources Program at Colorado School of Mines, has been ... Read more
Asle Zaeem awarded Fryrear Endowed Chair for Innovation and Excellence
From the Mines Newsroom: Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Mohsen Asle Zaeem was awarded the Ben L. Fryrear Endowed Chair for ... Read more
Mines Interdisciplinary Team to Develop a Robot for Lunar Landings
NASA has selected Colorado School of Mines for a $1.9M project to develop an autonomous robot to prepare the lunar surface for ... Read more
Sullivan and CFCC win two new SBIR Programs with industrial partner Adaptive Energy
Professors Neal Sullivan and Ryan O’Hayre received notice of two new research and development awards in partnership with fuel-cell ... Read more
Mines ME Alumni Advisory Board holds first meeting
Connecting and engaging with ME alumni has always been a primary goal of the ME Department. With over 3,600 active ME alumni around ... Read more
FEA Professional Program Announces New Opportunities for Research and Professional Development
FEA Professional is a 12-credit graduate certificate program that teaches transferrable skills for finite element analysis (FEA), ... Read more
Lamberson to build visualization facility to study armor ceramics
Dr. Leslie Lamberson, ME Associate Professor and recent Academic Management Institute graduate, was awarded an Office of Naval ... Read more
Osborne, Deinert awarded NEUP funding for improved nuclear storage inspection techniques
ME Department collaborators Dr. Andrew Osborne and Dr. Mark Deinert were awarded a Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) grant to ... Read more
The REBELS of distributed power
The projects funded within ARPA-E’s Reliable Electricity Based on Electrochemical Systems (REBELS) program are meant to produce fuel ... Read more
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- Christine Yee: "I chose Mines because of the positive reputation for shaping well-rounded engineers prepared for a long-term career."
- Eliseo Esparza: "My dream job is to use engineering to create change in the world through diversity."
- 19 Mines faculty members awarded promotion, tenure for 2022-2023
- Craig Brice: "Mines has a far-reaching, rock-solid reputation in the professional world."
- 5 Mines students named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
- Isabella Mendoza: "I truly believe that you should follow your passion, and not let yourself get intimidated by what you don't know."
- New integrative scholars program offers customizable learning experiences in sustainable energy
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