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Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Job Opportunity
Assistant Professor The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of computational fluid dynamics. Candidates are sought to complement a growing presence in computational fluid dynamics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in particular, and in computational science in general as a declared strategic area of growth at the University of Wyoming.[More]
Department News
 | Samuel D. Hakes Outstanding Graduate Research and Teaching Award - Jonathan Naughton Jonathan W. Naughton has been a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wyoming since 1997 and is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Wind Energy Research Center. Read More |
 | Rocket Payload Project Warrants Hands-On Learning During the summer, a number of University of Wyoming (UW) College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) and College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) students participated in the first experimental NASA RockSat - X sounding rocket payload project. Read More |
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Faculty Highlight
Flying to New Heights In 2003, Dimitri Mavriplis was working at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., using computers to help perfect aircraft designs for the nation's aeronautical research agency. Then he received an offer from the University of Wyoming that he simply couldn't pass up. The Mechanical Engineering Department was looking to start a program in computational fluids, and that's exactly what I wanted to do, Mavriplis says.
Mechanical Graduate Students
Unravel Wind Energy Mechanics
Explaining the technical and economic factors of residential-scale wind turbines earned Heather Sauder and George Randolph first place and $1,000 in the 2011 Energy Education for the People writing contest.
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2011 Undergraduate Research Day