UNLV College of Engineering graduate student Emma Letourneau is among 32 scholars nationwide awarded a prestigious Tau Beta Pi Fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year. The fellowship, awarded to only about 10% of applicants each year, comes with a $10,000 stipend for advanced study. The oldest engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi has awarded…

Lung-Wen Antony Chen (Environmental and Occupational Health), Prosun Roy, Yi-Tung Chen (both Mechanical Engineering), and their colleagues published an article on "High time-resolution fenceline air quality sensing and dispersion modeling for environmental justice-centered source attribution " in the journal …

Cameron Jensen (Mechanical Engineering) presented his research titled, “Linear No-threshold Model: A Collection of Studies on The Highly Debated Radiation Protection Standard,” during the International Nuclear Law Association’s (INLA) Radiological Protection Working Group’s Technical Meeting on April 21, 2023. Jensen shared a collection of studies…

Melissa Morris (Mechanical Engineering) received the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Pacific Southwest (PSW) Outstanding Teaching Award. The award recognizes an engineering educator for their outstanding classroom performance and contributions to the scholarship of teaching.  She was honored with this award at the annual…

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineer), distinguished professor and Southwest Gas professor of energy and matter, co-authored a paper titled "Multiphysics Modeling Framework for Soft PVC Gel Sensors with Experimental Comparisons," in Polymers. The leading author is Justin Neubauer, who graduated with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering.

Recently, Research.com has ranked professor Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) #180 in the Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists in the United States for 2023. The ranking is based on Discipline H-index metric.

Assistant professor H. Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering) has received the NSF CAREER award for his project, "Continuous atmospheric water harvesting through gels." This award for $596,487 will support research on atmospheric water harvesting for five years through a UNLV-developed hydrogel membrane design. Atmospheric water harvesting is a way…

Justin Neubauer (Mechanical Engineering), published a paper titled, "Tunable polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)-based soft polymer gel sensors," in Smart Materials and Structures.

Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering), along with doctoral student Mario Mata, master's student Brandon Ortiz, and undergraduate students Dhruv Luhar and Vesper Evereux, published a paper titled, "How dynamic adsorption controls surfactant-enhanced boiling," in Scientific Reports. The work breaks conventional wisdom on how surfactants can be used…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and Mark Callis Sanders’ paper titled, "Three Blind Mice — Low-dose Radiation, Epidemiology and the Law,” was presented at the International Nuclear Law Association’s (INLA) 2022 Nuclear Inter Jura by Mark Sanders. The meeting was held at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 24-28,…

Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering) was awarded the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator grant. The two-year, $110,000 grant will support fundamental research in understanding how surfactants can be used to mobilize oil trapped in water. The research is applicable to the petroleum field and groundwater…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about the nuclear engineering and health physics programs at the 2022 American Nuclear Society Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV was among 25 universities invited to have recruitment…