How does Colorado’s Lockheed Martin keep future engineers interested in space? By asking them to design robot cars.

“I thought it was going to go crashing into walls, especially my first game where I’m like, ‘I don’t know anything about deep learning. I’m gonna keep my expectations low,’” said [Julia] Harvey, a sophomore taking the Mines’ robotics and intelligent ....
November 6, 2019

Engineering students compete in AI-powered race

The students competing in the event were from the Colorado School of Mines, University of Colorado Boulder and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
October 31, 2019

What a College Minor Is and Why It Matters

Simply put, "a minor allows a student the opportunity to add training in another discipline," explains Tracy Camp, a professor and head of the computer science department at Colorado School of Mines.
October 30, 2019

GPS is going places: Here are five things you didn’t know the navigation system could do

Matt Siegfried, now at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and his colleagues studied snow accumulation at 23 GPS stations in West Antarctica from 2007 to 2017.
October 29, 2019

Caterpillar’s autonomous vehicles may be used by NASA to mine the moon and build a lunar base

Yet the notion of extracting platinum, gold and other valuable minerals from heavenly bodies and propelling them back to Earth is more fiction than science. “The economic analysis doesn’t make sense,” said Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center ....
October 23, 2019

Federal judge in SC getting a lesson in the science surrounding a toxic firefighting foam

“This is a national issue, and we are going to find far more sites as we go along,” said Christopher Higgins, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, who testified about how the chemicals don’t break down in the environment.
October 17, 2019

Best Colleges 2019: This Is the Best College in Every State

A favorite campus tradition at this small public college is E-Days (or Engineering Days), which takes place every spring and includes a cardboard boat race in a Colorado river.
October 14, 2019

Colorado School of Mines students and their Moroccan teammates win the Solar Decathlon AFRICA

In the midst of the 18-hour days spent building a house under the hot African sun, Colorado School of Mines students got to partake in a special Moroccan tradition.
October 8, 2019

Students from Colorado School of Mines win top prize in 2019 Solar Decathlon Africa

Students from the School of Mines joined with students in Morocco to build an affordable, solar-powered house for the North African climate.
September 30, 2019

A College For The Cosmos: The Colorado School Training Its Students To Become Space Colonizers

These days, the Colorado School of Mines is jetting light-years away from its initial purpose–training its students to mine and to utilize the minerals being mined—and concentrating on training the future engineers responsible for setting up colonies ....
September 30, 2019

Why Do We Document All Presidential Conversations? And How Is Trump’s Call With Ukraine Unusual?

“The mechanisms of government are so tremendously complex that the meetings and conversations the president has, have important implications across the range of government agencies,” said Ken Osgood, a professor of U.S. political and diplomatic ....
September 29, 2019

‘Forever Chemicals’ Coming to Your Table, if Not Already There

The federal government needs to better understand how widespread the chemicals are in the food supply, and assess potential harm to people and wildlife, said Christopher P. Higgins, a Colorado School of Mines professor whose research team found the ....
September 27, 2019