Research Opportunities

UNM's proximity to national laboratories offers an unparalleled opportunity for students to participate in world-class research at Sandia National Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and many local high tech companies.

Opportunities vary from capstone projects, including company-sponsored tasks, to Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), to working in many of the School of Engineering labs, including a 10-acre lab in the Bosque.

Departmental Research Areas

Chemical Engineering offers a variety of research areas that include bioengineering, chemical processing, environmental engineering, materials process, and semiconductor manufacturing.http://www-chne.unm.edu/chemicalgraduate.html

Research highlights include:

• New Lab for Nano-Bio Breakthroughs
• A Productive Partnership: A collaboration between Harvard University and UNM creates many new opportunities
• Catalyzing Opportunities: Catalysis of Biomass-derived Reactants
• Powering the Future with Fuel Cell Technology

Nuclear Engineering offers a wide range of research areas that range from medical physics to radiation protection. Research highlights include:

• Centers of Collaboration and Creativity: SOE Adds 2 New Centers
  

Civil Engineering's research areas include construction engineering and management, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydraulics and water resources, structural mechanics, transportation and traffic.Research highlights include:

• Mixing Minds and Methods in Materials Design
• Water Hunters
• Learning from the Land

Computer Science offers a wide range of research from computer and internet security to computer programming. Research highlights include:

• Mighty Molecular Machines: UNM researchers harness the power of molecules
• Scaling the Wall One Word at a Time: Researchers study the computer science behind Internet censorship
• How Do Networks Work?
• Turning 1s and 0s Into Hope

Computer Engineering offers a variety of research areas that include bioengineering, computer intelligence, computer architecture, computer networks and systems, and image processing. Research highlights include:

• Transforming Graphics for All: Pradeep Sen's research on computer graphics, visualization, and gaming
• Researching the Mysteries of Complex Systems
• Developing Tomorrow's Internet

Electrical Engineering's research areas include applied electromagnetics, bioengineering, communications, image processing, microelectronics, optoelectronics, signal processing, and systems and controls. Research highlights include:

• Energizing Education: Engineering students participate in solar house design competition

• Building a Better Agent: Yasamin Mostofi shows that strong networks start with more cooperative agents

Mechanical Engineering offers a variety of research areas that include energy conversion, energy resources, environment and transportation, manufacturing, materials and structures, and systems and design. Research highlights include:

• Intelligent Energy
• Racing to a New Level
• The Formula for Success