College of Engineering & Mines Blog

This year’s Bakken Oil Products and Services Show will be in town next week. This pop-up oil town annually brings out a variety of new and trending products looking to find their niche in the oilfield. This year, however, there will be even more than that in store, with panelists from the UND Petroleum Engineering […]

Grand Forks engineering team to enter Red Bull Flugtag competition in St. Paul The Tator Tot Titans hope to carry their Midwestern theme over the Mississippi River after their glider and pilot are pushed off a 30-foot-high pier. From left, Kyle Batten, Kendrick Heck and Grant Ramage, members of the Tater Tot Titans team of […]

At UND, a group of students, led by mechanical engineer alum David Robinson, ’70, are preparing to head to Guatemala to provide clean water to a village in need. The pursuit to build a better world is the driving force behind the national organization Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) – a group of about 14,000 volunteers […]

What started as a simple search for summer work now has Connor Propp, an electrical engineering major at UND, on the cutting edge of unmanned aircraft system applications.   InternGF program links with UAS tech startup to provide engaging, eye-opening internship What started as a simple search for summer work now has Connor Propp on […]

University researcher one of only three in nation picked to analyze everyday household and industrial chemicals’ impacts on human body. UND Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Feng “Frank” Xiao has been named one of only three researchers in the country to receive a highly competitive Early Career Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) […]

As a custom-woodworker, Jacob says he’ll build what the client wants. “We specialize in unique items ranging in size from art pieces and mantles all the way to dining and conference tables. In addition to custom projects we also cater to contractors and DIYers by supplying everything they need to create a project of their […]

The pyramids in Egypt. Stonehenge in Britain. Roman bridges. The Great Wall of China. These everlasting architectural and engineering wonders fascinate Brendan Blades. It’s a fitting allure for him, one that marries his long love of history with his more recent interest in engineering. Blades holds a bachelor’s degree in history, which was supposed to […]

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected five projects to receive approximately $39.9m in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Oil Recovery. DOE selected these projects as part of its basin-specific research strategy focused on increasing ultimate recovery and […]

Michael Hirsch, a senior UND Mechanical Engineering student, is a Crew and Thermal Systems, Design and Analysis Engineering intern at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. He is working on multiple projects to help develop the necessary technology used for human spaceflight. One project is a water capture device for the International Space Station that […]

“If not for a critical assessment of NASA’s timeline for landing on the moon—co-authored by a University of North Dakota engineering graduate—the United States probably wouldn’t be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event this week.” Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, check out this UND Today article about how UND CEM […]