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Gerald Stringfellow and Bruce Gale were elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

Steven Naleway leads a team that has been researching why a particular deadly tree fungus is so hard to kill.

Electrical and computer engineering Chair Florian Solzbacher was elected Fellow to IEEE.

EAE will show off its new student-produced video games under development during “EAE Play 2021” on Friday, Dec. 10.

ECE's Jacob George was named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" for 2022.

Carl Hodson Durney, a beloved University of Utah professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering , passed away Nov. 29.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering held its biannual Design Day event in the university's Student Union.

Benjamin Sanchez-Terrones is developing a diagnostic tool for breast cancer that uses a safe, low-voltage electrical current instead of radiation.

The College of Engineering's fall newsletter is out now! Click here to read it.

The college held its first “Live Lunch Pitch Competition," a contest in which engineering students gave their best elevator pitches.

Valerio Pascucci and a team of U researchers were part of a consortium that helped move data from the Arecibo Observatory after it collapsed.

The School of Computing is launching new curricula in emerging computer science fields.

Click here for a photo gallery of 2021's Engineering Day, the college's largest outreach event of the year.

Jan D. Miller has received The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Fellow Award for the class of 2022.

Huanan Zhang has developed a process that turns clothing fabric into biosensors which measure a muscle’s electrical activity.

Jake J. Abbott has discovered a method to manipulate orbiting debris with spinning magnets.

Richard A. Normann successfully created a form of artificial vision for a blind woman using a prosthesis hardwired into her brain.

Utah philanthropists John and Marcia Price have gifted $15M to the college for a new computer science building.

Richard E. Turley Sr., former University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor, passed away Oct. 10.

Tommaso Lenzi is developing a powered exoskeleton to help amputees walk with less effort.

This year, a record eight COE faculty members have received the prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award.

Several COE faculty have joined a project to further develop technologies for cooperative driving automation.

Valerio Pascucci has received a $5.6M grant to build the critical infrastructure for better data access for scientific facilities.

School of Computing student Anna Bell received the student Women Tech Award for 2021.

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Pavel Panchekha have received a DOE/ASCR X-Stack award from the U.S. Department of Energy.