College of Engineering & Mines

Three candidates for the Dean of the College of Engineering & Mines position at the University of North Dakota have been selected to participate in campus interviews. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members are invited and encouraged to attend the following open forums. CVs for each candidate can be found here. The open forum […]

Marymount expanding STEM opportunities for students through newly-available engineering degree programs Leadership from Marymount University has secured an agreement which will allow its students to earn an undergraduate engineering degree for the first time in the school’s history. Engineering degree options that will be available to Marymount students include the subfields of chemical, civil, electrical, […]

Three candidates for the Dean of the College of Engineering & Mines position have been selected to participate in campus interviews.   Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members are invited and encouraged to attend the following open forums. CVs for each candidate can be found here. The open forum schedule follows. Joseph Iannelli, Monday, Feb. 24, […]

In an era of fracking for oil and natural gas and growth in solar and wind power, who knew the plain old coal plant could have value in a carbon-constrained world? And yet, coal generation has turned out to be a surprising bright spot in energy tech’s universe of late. Evidence of that came in […]

  It’s the art of making research compelling. Three minutes. One graphic. On Wednesday, Jan. 29, UND graduate students condensed years of work into a three-minute talk at the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis competition, at the Gorecki Alumni Center. College of Engineering & Mines’ student Marie Bergelin, took second-place at the competition. Marie is […]

The University of North Dakota will soon host the world’s largest – and only – full scale oil drilling and completion lab. “This drilling and completion laboratory, when fully completed, will be a $40-million experimental facility that does not exist anywhere else in the world,” said Vamegh Rasouli, Continental Resources Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering and […]

  The intelligent Pipeline Integrity Program (iPIPE) is an industry-led consortium whose focus is to contribute to the advancement of near-commercial, emerging technologies to prevent and detect gathering pipeline leaks. The program is a direct response to North Dakota Governor Burgum’s May 2017 challenge to industry to think outside the box and apply new technology […]

  UND ASCE chapter officers attended the 99th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, DC thanks to the generosity of Dr. Charles and Marlys Nelson. More than 13, 500 people attended the conference.    

“Better safe than sorry” is an overused credo in life. But in the world of aviation and oil-and-gas exploration, as much as anywhere, it can be the fine line between life and death. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recognizes this sobering reality and is betting that proven successes in one of those […]

EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Online Schools Report has released their ranking of the Best Online Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degrees. OSR, the new student resource site, based their ranking strictly on data, prioritizing the school’s ability to deliver an online education comparable to an on-campus degree. “It’s not rocket science.” …until it is! Mechanical Engineering is […]