Humanities & Design

Students in the Design for a Globalized World class worked on a seemingly small problem with a big impact on the environment.

The Steel Bridge, Concrete Canoe, Surveying and Sustainable Solutions teams from Colorado School of Mines all punched their tickets to the national finals this past weekend.

Sustainable Energy@Mines (SE@M) is a fully customizable pathway of distinction, combining classroom instruction, co-curricular and extracurricular experiences alongside opportunities for community building that students can integrate with their other academic studies.

Calls for greater corporate social responsibility place new demands on engineers’ everyday work, as Mines associate professor Jessica Smith demonstrates in a new book published by The MIT Press

The Humanitarian Engineering (HE) program at Colorado School of Mines has been awarded a $1.46 million National Science Foundation grant to support the retention and graduation of high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need.

Winning the semester-long design challenge – and the $1,000 grand prize – was a solution for making temporary housing for refugees more durable, sustainable and easily deployable.

The Small Animal Fluorescent Imaging System, an imaging system designed to be affordable for small universities and research centers who need to conduct niche research, took the top award at the Fall 2021 Capstone Design Showcase.

The class, which focuses on sustainable development and earth resources, was selected by SDSN as a case study for integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into resource engineering education.

In collaboration with colleagues in the United States, China and the Netherlands, Mines Assistant Professor Qin Zhu and Research Assistant Professor Rockwell Clancy are leading a project to study the

A longtime member of the Mines faculty, Woodson has taught ethics, environmental ethics and writing at the university since 1999.