Research
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engineering experienced another record-breaking year for research funding in 2020, receiving $134 million overall and dwarfing the 2019 total of $108 million.
The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) invites students, faculty, staff and the community to join Research & Innovation Week, October 12–16. The 2020 streamlined edition will feature three virtual events that you’ll only be able to find at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder.
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science is leading a new Multi-disciplinary Simulation Center funded by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program to model unbonded and bonded particulate materials in support of the stockpile stewardship program.
Undergraduate researchers share their experiences as participants in the ME SPUR Program. ME SPUR, modeled after ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, enabled undergraduate students to work with mechanical engineering faculty on research that could be conducted remotely.
Researchers are developing tattoo inks that do more than make pretty colors. Some can sense chemicals, temperature and UV radiation, setting the stage for tattoos that diagnose health problems.
Singing indoors, unmasked can swiftly spread COVID-19 via microscopic airborne particles known as aerosols, confirms a new peer-reviewed study of a March choir rehearsal which became one of the nation’s first superspreading events.
Researchers in the college will soon have access to a Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer testing platform. With it, they can perform mechanical load and displacement tests of materials, devices and components that were not possible previously.
A new $25 million center to advance quantum science on ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s campus has deep roots in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engineering’s interdisciplinary research efforts.
Aspero Medical, a spinout company of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Anschutz Medical Campus was recently awarded $225,000 through the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This award will allow the company to further technologies in the field of gastroenterology.
As students return to campus, a mostly behind-the-scenes team of university staff and scientists has been working to make sure that the air they breathe will be as safe as possible.