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AIAA Foundation awards 3rd place to BYU team (November 18, 2009)

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced the winners of the 2008-2009 AIAA Foundation Undergraduate Team Engine Design Competition. A team from BYU’s Mechanical Engineering department won third prize for their (Read Full Article)

Undergrad wins second place in poster competition (November 18, 2009)

BYU Mechanical Engineering senior Oliver Johnson won second place at a competition sponsored by the Department of Energy for its interns at the national labs. The Science and Engineering Research Challenge (SERCh) was held (Read Full Article)

Engineers without Borders program travels to Peru (September 14, 2009)

Several members of BYU’s Chapter of Engineers without Borders recently returned from a humanitarian service trip to Peru. The team of students represented several departments in the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. The group included three ME students, one ECEn, one ChE, one MET, and one CE student. The students were accompanied by faculty members Randy Lewis, of Chemical Engineering, and Jerry Bowman, of Mechanical Engineering. The team traveled from August 3 (Read Full Article)

University award given to ME professor (September 10, 2009)

Dr. Brian Jensen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, received the Young Scholar Award at the annual University Conference on August 25, 2009. The Young Scholar award is given to junior faculty to encourage and acknowledge outstanding (Read Full Article)

2009 ASME International Design Engineering Conferences (September 10, 2009)

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Conferences (IDETC) held their annual meeting in San Diego, California August 30-September 2, 2009. Over ten different conferences operate as part of the IDETC, with attendance at (Read Full Article)

How termites help build structures (July 14, 2009)

The challenge given to this team of Brigham Young University engineering students seemed like a mission impossible. They were asked to create a sustainable building material for people living in impoverished villages in Mozambique. The catch? It had to be made from ... (Read Full Article)

BYU rocket team lights up competition (July 9, 2009)

Rockets have fired the imagination of budding engineers for generations. But while many of us have been content as armchair astronauts, a team of BYU Mechanical Engineering students has spent the last few months cutting their teeth on the real thing. Starting from a blank piece of paper, they created a (Read Full Article)

Mars Rover team places second in national competition (June 26, 2009)

The BYU Mars Rover Team finished second place at the third annual University Rover Challenge held by the Mars Society. The challenge took place on May 28-30, 2009, near Hanksville, Utah at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). The competition was comprised of (Read Full Article)