UI graduate student builds prosthetic for friend
Engineering student uses his experience to help childhood friend

Jacob Miller met childhood friend Cesar Montes last summer by chance in a Coeur d’Alene bar. While chatting about family, Montes mentioned his younger brother Alex had lost his arm in a car accident. He asked Miller, a mechanical engineering graduate student, if he could help.

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More than just the moon
Engineering student prepares for career at NASA

Satellites, space ships and astronauts — this is what most people think when they hear the acronym NASA. However, graduating University of Idaho senior Makynzie Zimmer will be working at […]

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Solving real-world problems
Seniors’ capstone projects designed to solve industrial partners problems

From a year to one semester seniors’ in the College of Engineering create projects for industrial partners, showcasing them in the annual Engineering Design Expo. The senior engineering capstone students […]

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Land grant and related acts are fundamental to UI research efforts

During the University of Idaho presidential candidate open forums March 4 to March 8, multiple candidates mentioned the importance of land grant universities — a classification of universities such as […]

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Engineering students pitch research projects at event
Last Thursday, participants in the Grand Challenge Scholars program got the opportunity to pitch proposed research projects to faculty members

Daniel Robertson, University of Idaho Grand Challenge Scholars program director, says pitching a project to a peer or colleague is not about gaining money. Instead, Robertson said the goal of […]