College of Engineering & Mines

Meet Ryan Lemker: UND student, President of the Rocketry Club, and EAPC Architect Engineers’ scholarship recipient.

A centennial milestone later, UND civil engineering students are still find community and success among their peers.

Representing the University of North Dakota, the Department of Civil Engineering recently participated in the 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. 

Following his tour of the CFI, Goehring met and heard presentations about biotechnology and medical devices from UND’s Biomedical Engineering program, as well as the innovative educational philosophy employed by faculty members within the department. This philosophy, known as innovation-based learning, has first-year students working on real-life problems in biomedical engineering. Students also have abundant opportunities to engage in internships from companies in North Dakota and beyond.

UND has been awarded a $7.6 million Other Transaction Authority contract by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command  Soldier Center to develop an innovative Contamination and Sanitation Inspection system.

Minnkota Power Cooperative joins UND College of Engineering & Mines Research Institute (CEMRI) and other industry research partners in capitalizing on rare earth elements.

Efforts by UND researchers to transform the state into a hub to produce rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals (CMs) continue to move forward, and the pilot production facility, located off Mill Road in Grand Forks, has begun to produce concentrated mixtures of the compounds.

Last spring, UND’s Office of Research and Economic Development established the Early Career Scholars Program (ECSP), a project designed to kick-start the careers of researchers transitioning from Ph.D. and postdoc programs to full-time faculty. Hallie Chelmo and Bo Liang, College of Engineering & Mines faculty elected as Early Career Scholars, presented their findings and updates on future funding opportunities in front of an audience of their peers.

Anjali Sandip, a senior lecturer in UND’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation grant that will help her and her colleagues study the impact on sea levels of melting Antarctic ice sheets.

Ryan Adams, associate dean of national security and professor in the College of Engineering and Mines, said UAS is vital to several research initiatives on campus. Among them is the transportation technology research initiative, a partnership between UND and the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT).