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EcoCAR 2
EcoCAR 2: Plugging in to the Future, is a three-year collegiate engineering competition and the only program of its kind. The competition’s mission is a vital one: offer an unparalleled hands-on,...
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EcoCAR 3
Dr. Thomas Bradley, faculty adviser for EcoCAR projects, and a group of more than 100 dedicated students, over the course of eight semesters, just completed the EcoCAR 2 competition in the summer of...
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Senior Design: Formula SAE’s First Electric Vehicle
Start your engines! This year’s Formula SAE – Ram Racing team is bringing something new to the speedway; an electric vehicle with a need for speed. In June, team members are hoping to achieve a top 10...
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ME Alumnus, John Brophy, Revolutionizes Space Travel Using Ion Propulsion and...
John Brophy at the Cape. We are pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics Association named NASA’s Dawn Mission Team as the winner of the 2015 Robert J. Collier Trophy. Colorado State...
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Join Us In Welcoming Our New Mechanical Engineering Faculty, To Begin Fall...
Dr. Kaka Ma earned her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Davis, in December 2010, and continued her postdoctoral research at UC Davis from January 2011 to...
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Celebrating the Career of Dr. Patrick Fitzhorn
“MY GOAL IS TO LEAVE THE DEPARTMENT IN A STRONG, VIABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE POSITION THAT CONTINUES TO EMBRACE GROWTH, WHILE FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE SUCCESS OF EACH STUDENT.” These were Dr. Patrick...
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Dr. John Volckens Receives $1.5M Grant From EPA STAR
Kelsey Bilsback (left), CSU mechanical engineering Ph.D. student, checks flow rates on a portable sampler before beginning emissions sampling in Tamil Nadu, India. Last year, we covered a story about...
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NSF-Sponsored IRES Project Investigates Development of Prosthetic Devices in...
Dr. Tammy Haut Donahue (second from right) with nurses from the hospital. In developing countries, the occurrence of missing limbs due to amputations from infection, farming accidents, or landmine...
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A Glimpse Into Sabbatical Experiences of Two ME Professors
From left to right: Praneetha Pulyala, Dr. Ketul Popat’s lab student visiting from VIT; Dr. Popat, and Dr. Geetha Manivasagam, Dr. Popat’s collaborator visiting from VIT, at Bear Lake at Estes Park,...
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Congratulations to our Mechanical Engineering E-Days Award Winners
Faculty Awards Dr. Dave Alciatore, winner of THE GOLDEN SCREW AWARD Dr. Mitchell Stansloski, winner of BEST PROFESSOR two years in a row Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board AwardsMEAB consists of...
View ArticleThe Future of Hearing Aid Technology Is Here
Hearing Impaired, ME Student of Gonzaga University, Paxson Matthews, becomes first person to test groundbreaking hearing aid technology, and joins Colorado State University as an intern. Last Spring,...
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Kota Research Group’s Superomniphobic Tape Drips with Potential
“We make coatings. We manipulate surfaces using different techniques to repel liquids,” said ME faculty member Dr. Arun Kota whose research in superomniphobic technology was recently published by the...
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Recent ME Masters Graduate Receives National Recognition with Electric...
In the 52 years of electric propulsion research conducted at CSU, a student has never received the best paper award until now. Mechanical Engineering Masters Student, Carl Mullins, is the first....
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Dr. Kirk McGilvray Receives $3.2M NIH Grant to Research Fracture Healing
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Research Professor, Dr. Kirk McGilvray of the Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory (OBRL) received a $3.2M grant from the NIH to study fracture healing...
View ArticleScott Kelleher, MS ’17, Receives Graduate Research Innovation Fellowship from...
Scott Kelleher conducts his research in the most adverse of conditions, at the scene of prescribed wildfires in Colorado. With the help of his advisor, Dr. John Volckens, and dedicated lab members,...
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ME Developed Air Samplers are Spacebound
Mechanical engineering Professor John Volckens and research scientist Dan Miller-Lionberg with the thermophoretic sampler. Dr. John Volckens, ME professor and CSU Energy Institute Researcher, is about...
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Senior Design: Formula SAE’s First Electric Vehicle
Start your engines! This year’s Formula SAE – Ram Racing team is bringing something new to the speedway; an electric vehicle with a need for speed. In June, team members are hoping to achieve a top 10...
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ME Alumnus, John Brophy, Revolutionizes Space Travel Using Ion Propulsion and...
John Brophy at the Cape. We are pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics Association named NASA’s Dawn Mission Team as the winner of the 2015 Robert J. Collier Trophy. Colorado State...
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The Factory
Since the 1950s, a 24,000-square-foot, off-campus research facility, located in the Fort Collins foothills, has endured dozens of renovations; the latest renovation transformed the facility into “The...
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ME Undergrad Participates in the National FIREX Campaign
ME undergraduate student, Liam Lewane, recently shared his latest project at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research campaign, addressing environmental air quality. Liam Lewane Lewane is a student...
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