At the International Symposium on Rock Mechanics held in Hong Kong last month, a paper co-authored by Huanyang Luo, Wendy Zhou and Scott Huang received the best paper award beating out over three hundred paper entries. Full Story..
Two CEM Petroleum Engineering students took first and second place at the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE) National Student Poster competition. Undergraduate Student Kasper Kowalewski and Graduate Student Ekene Chukwu took first and second place respectively in the competition.. Full story...
The UAF Nanook EV Zero Emission Snowmachine and team were featured on the front page of the Fairbanks News-Miner Newspaper. The story details the construction of the sled, the teams participation, and their entry in the SAE Clean Snowmachine Challenge. Full Story...
CEM Petroleum Engineering students win Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) student paper awards at the SPE Western Regional Meeting. Students Rusheet Shah and Sathish Kulathu won first and second place respectively in the MS division and Daniel Clark won second place in the BS division of the student paper contests. Full Story...
The UAF Mechanical Engineering department sent a team of students to compete in the SAE Clean Snowmachine Challenge. The students created a snowmachine that would operate completely from electrical power supplied by batteries, as opposed to a combustion engine. This SAE competition was designed to challenge students to create lower pollution snow machines that also explored the concept of alternative propulsion methods. The team took second place overall in the standings and a number of other awards. Full Story...
College of Engineering & Mines Open House!
CEM, along with special sponsorship from Flint Hills hosted its annual Engineers' Week Open House in the Duckering building on February 21st, from 11am to 3pm. Please go to the following link for a list of demonstrations and activities: Activities Info
University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Engineering and Mine's students successfully fire off a research rocket at the Poker Flats Research Range. This is an Ionospheric Science and Inertial Sensing rocket launched in partnership with NASA.
Professor Doug Goering's work to make permafrost resistant roadways has been featured in the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper. These article discuss how the Thermosyphons in the roadway interact with very cold temperatures in the air.
The Alaska Microgravity Team recently flew their experiment for a small satellite attitude control system in the zero-g environment of a NASA C-9 aircraft last week. Full Story...
Provost Susan Henrichs is happy to announce that Doug Goering, interim dean of CEM, has accepted the College of Engineering and Mines' dean position. She feels very fortunate to have him in that position and looks forward to working with him. Please join her in supporting Dr. Goering in his new position. Full Story...
ME Student Michael Golub has won the Global Change Student Grant Competition Award. Full Story...
Eva Stephani, undergraduate student in Geological Engineering was awarded the Olav Slaymaker Award for the best student poster in Geomorphology. Full Story...
Matthew Dillon has recently received a two-year EPSCoR graduate student award to conduct his master degree research on the formation of ground ice. Matthew is also active in presenting papers at international conferences. Full Story...
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Eva Stephani has received the 2007-2008 Flint Hills Undergraduate Research Award to work on the Alaska University Transportation Center (AUTC) Preservation of the Alaska Highway project. Eva is also active in presenting papers at international conferences with the use of travel grant awards. Full Story...
UAF Student Steven Kibler has won the IEEE NW Area Student Paper Contest held in Seattle on April 19 for his paper "Real Time Optoelectrical Visualization for the Optimization of Micromouse Hardware". Full Story...
The UAF College of Engineering & Mines Alumni will be hosting the 2008 CEM Annual Awards Banquet on April 19th 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska. The banquet will be hosted at the Jade Room of the Princess Hotel, starting at 6:00pm for a social hour, followed by a dinner at 7:00pm. For more information about the dinner, please download the Banquet Flyer.
The CEM is hosting the annual Engineers Week Open House on February 23, 2008 which marks the last day of National Engineers Week (February 17-23, 2008). The open house will feature engineering demonstrations and activities in the Duckering Building on the UAF campus from 11:00am to 3:00pm. More detailed information coming soon.
The portrait of Dean and Professor Emeritus Earl H. Beistline was unveiled in the Duckering building after a convocation ceremony. Full Story...
The UAF ASCE student chapter will host the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional conference and Steel Bridge Competition April 12-14, 2007.
College of Engineering & Mines Open House!
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