Mechanical Engineering Professor and former Department Head Allan Kirkpatrick will deliver his last set of classes on May 14 after 40 years of teaching and research at CSU. His new title: Professor Emeritus.
Education Abroad has named two staff members in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering – Toni-Lee Viney and Claire Lavelle – its 2020 Partners of the Year.
CSU mechanical engineering alum Roger Alan Ross has been named the President of Aero Systems at Woodward.
Harelson took time out of his busy schedule to reflect on his professional life, his favorite CSU memories, and his best advice to current students.
Mechanical engineering graduate student Seth Thompson balances studies, research into components of plasma-based electric propulsion technologies, teaching, and fatherhood.
Trent Sieg (’18), a CSU mechanical engineering alumnus who is the long snapper for the Las Vegas Raiders of the NFL, is scheduled to help kick off E-Days with other alumni, industry leaders and teachers starting at 9 a.m. April 23.
Colorado’s marijuana industry could significantly cut its climate impact by moving operations into fields or greenhouses. (Colorado Public Radio)
“Policymakers and consumers aren’t paying much attention to environmental impacts of the cannabis industry,” said Jason Quinn, mechanical engineering faculty at Colorado State University and senior author of the study. (Smithsonian Magazine)
CSU researchers found that growing pot indoors leads to higher greenhouse gas emissions in the Mountain West, Midwest, Alaska and Hawaii than on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
“I don’t want to say bad because bad is not wearing a mask at all. So we could be doing a lot better," said John Volckens, a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. (Colorado Public Radio)