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UND Alumni Association & Foundation establishes scholarships to help students overcome COVID-induced financial hardship To help the growing number of students in need of monetary support due to the coronavirus pandemic, the University Alumni Association and Foundation (AA&F) has created two new scholarships, the Angel Fund and the Open Door Scholarship. UND archival image.   […]

Editor’s note: A few weeks ago, Brian Tande, dean of the UND College of Engineering & Mines, interviewed then-Incoming President Andy Armacost about Armacost’s engineering degree and the importance of engineering in Armacost’s career. A video of the conversation is above, and a transcript is below. Brian Tande: So, the first question I have is just, what got you interested […]

Articles by Frank Xiao recognized as “Highly Cited Papers” by Web of Science Feng “Frank” Xiao Each year the Web of Science group, an information and technology provider for the global scientific research community, complies its Highly Cited Papers list. Two articles by Feng “Frank” Xiao, assistant professor of civil engineering, published in Water Research (2018 impact factor: […]

When COVID-19 pushed classes fully online, UND’s 31 years of training engineers remotely helped ensure a smooth transition Online students in Mechanical Engineering 201 at UND normally come to campus for a week-long, hands-on summer lab to build and test a robot prototype that they’ve spent the semester designing. This year, the project is to […]

Noé Lopez | B.S. Mechanical Engineering “Things are really going well this semester even through the transition that has taken place over the past few months.  I’m proud to say that UND has done such a top tier job ensuring that the transition to online classes has been a smooth one.  Additionally, the CEM faculty’s […]

Chemical Engineering Awards Ceremony held May 5, 2020 via Zoom. ChE Outstanding Student of the Year Awards nominated and chosen by the faculty.   Honorees Freshmen Kelsey Baker (winner) Ethan Hunter Caylie Graeber Sophomores Gabriel Schettler (winner) Lindsey Malina Cristy Jones Juniors Zachary Meduna (winner) Therese Hilpisch Allison Zipp   ChE Senior Plant Design Awards […]

Despite the challenges which COVID-19 has brought, students, faculty, and staff at UND come together – not literally, of course – to be Leaders in Action. At the College of Engineering & Mines, we are proud to see everyone working together to improve and motivate one another over the course of these indisputably unusual months. Several students, […]

Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Feng “Frank” Xiao teamed up with Civil Engineering graduate students Bosen Jin and Swetha Mallula and collaborators (Drs. Mikhail Golovko and Svetlana Golovko in UND Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Baoshan Xing at UMass Amherst) to publish “Sorption and Desorption Mechanisms of Cationic and Zwitterionic Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Natural Soils: […]

Online degrees present an opportunity for career advancement and increased financial stability, but they can also result in piles of debt. Knowing the return on investment of a specific degree and major before making a decision is key to evading insurmountable debt. To help people make this decision, Optimal (formerly SR Education Group), published their 2020 […]

In this photo, which was taken early in UND’s spring semester, mechanical engineering seniors Zachary Reinholdt and Riley Monson present their prototype to Hess Corp. employee and UND alumnus Reuben Gates and UND faculty. The goal is to design a system to launch and retrieve Pipers® into oil field pipelines. Photo by Dima Williams, UND […]