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The National Science Foundation is honoring six current or incoming Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ mechanical engineering students with Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards and five students with honorable mentions.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder engineers have received a $2.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and
Physics World has recognized a metamaterial film that provides cooling without the need for a power source, invented by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder mechanical engineering professors Ronggui Yang and Xiaobo Yin, as one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2017.Made out of
Chemical and Engineering News has chosen Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder spin-off company Solid Power as one of the Top 10 start-ups of 2017. The business grew out of research conducted by professors Sehee Lee and Conrad
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ mechanical engineering professor Xiaobo Yin has been named a 2017 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Moore Inventor Fellow, an award bestowed on scientist-inventors for their inventions in
Pushing the boundaries of science requires flexibility. Allowing scientists to follow where their research takes them, even if that is into areas that may seem illogical to some, often is what leads to the most remarkable breakthroughs. For some
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ professor of chemistry and mechanical engineering Steven George is the 2017 AVS John A Thornton Memorial Award winner, “for seminal contributions to understanding, development and applications of
Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc., a smartphone-technology startup from two Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ mechanical engineering professors, raised $200,000 in private equity to match a $250,000 grant from the state of Colorado
A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder mechanical engineering team is earning accolades for their solar materials research.The journal Applied Physics Letters is highlighting professor Ronggui Yang and two of his PhD students, Xin Qian and Xiaokun Gu, for their study of a
A team of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial, an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has