Mechanical engineering


Steven DeCaluwe, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program. DeCaluwe will receive
A team from Colorado School of Mines took first place in the 2nd CASMART Student Design Challenge for its deployable Mars orbit habitat design and model. Ares Advanced Apartments, or A³, was one of
A foundation established in honor of Colorado School of Mines student Chad Young will provide merit-based scholarships for future Mines students. Young, a mechanical engineering student at Mines, died
Colorado School of Mines took second place in a NASA competition to design and build a system for extracting water from Mars’ subsurface, and learned plenty of lessons along the way. The Mars Ice
Amadeu Sum, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been awarded the 2017 Arthur Lubinski OTC Best Paper Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This
Andrew Petruska, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been selected to receive the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award. Petruska is
A team of Colorado School of Mines students have worked for the past year on a method to reduce the use mercury in small-scale gold mining and the resulting pollution, and recently presented their
A group of five Colorado School of Mines students recently competed in the 2017 Drillbotics Competition, one of seven teams to make it to the final round of the international competition. Team
A team of Colorado School of Mines seniors took part in the Shell Eco-marathon, a competition to design, build and drive energy-efficient vehicles, and came in seventh out of more than 25 teams in the
A solar-powered LED system that alerts motorists to cyclists in bike lanes won the Colorado Department of Transportation’s RoadX challenge May 3, 2017, part of the spring innovation design competition