Outreach
- Elle Sandifer is a 2020 graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, she worked as a process engineer with Sanergy to address urban sanitation challenges in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Will Edgar, the first recipient of the CU Mechanical Engineering Student/Tuck Bridge Scholarship, has always had a knack for mechanical engineering. It is now complemented by a solid understanding of business thanks to the generosity of a fellow Buff.
- ME faculty members are featured in the University of Colorado Boulder's new documentary titled "The Road Back: ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Response to COVID-19."
- It’s hard to imagine a teenager who could resist exploring mechanical engineering after learning about Endoculus, the small device developed by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ Professor Mark Rentschler and student researchers in his lab that can navigate the human gastrointestinal system with ease and may someday help doctors care for their patients.
- Emily Zuetell is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering.  She was the president of CU’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders and has been a member of the organization for over three years.
- This year, an interdisciplinary team of Senior Design students is the first at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ to enter the Collegiate Wind Competition as a learn-along team. They are working hard to secure a spot for ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ in the competition next year and are making impressive strides in wind energy innovation and education.
- Diseases of the blood, like sickle cell disease, have traditionally taken a full day, tedious lab work and expensive equipment to diagnose, but researchers across disciplines have developed a way to diagnose these conditions with greater precision in only one minute.
- For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.
- The challenges of COVID-19 have inspired innovation among staff, faculty and students, leading to the development of two summer programs for 38 participating students: the ME Summer Design Intensive and ME SPUR.
- During the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Potts, machine shop coordinator in the Idea Forge, joined many others in pursuing a new hobby: mask-making. He has made over 250 masks and plans to sew at least 100 more.Â