Richard B. Brown, dean of the University of Utah’s College of Engineering, received two prestigious honors on the same day: He was elected to the National Academy of Inventors, and he was awarded the Governor’s Medal for Excellence in Science and Technology.

Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Spear, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, for being awarded a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP).

Four senior design capstone projects and four more projects to help patients and the disabled were on display at Design Day, which allows the public to see the progress made by mechanical engineering students.

There have been substantial advances in modeling and simulation of microstructure in 3-D.