Topic: engineering

UNLV Is Helping Make Deep Space Missions Safer
A UNLV student wearing goggles, and one wearing a hat and glasses, stare at materials in a vice.
Research | September 25, 2019
On-campus lab testing materials for NASA Artemis Program’s Orion spacecraft.
Newsmakers 2018: Student Success
Two students are debating with one another.
Campus News | December 27, 2018
Student achievements including competition wins, a world record, and new innovations splashed local and national news headlines in 2018.
Hashtag UNLV: Keeping up with the Dawsons
A collage of images showing a snapshot of Hailey posing with a UNLV alumna as well as a close-up shot of a blue 3D printed hand held by a student in a red UNLV Engineering t-shirt.
Campus News | July 20, 2018
Hailey Dawson and her family have visited 22 ballparks (and counting) on her journey to throw out the first pitch for every MLB team.
UNLV Students Assemble Top Bots on West Coast
Engineering students use a laptop and tools to fix two box-like robots
Campus News | April 27, 2018
Rebel Robotics team wins out over more than a dozen schools in American Society of Mechanical Engineers competition; takes on world next.
Young Baseball Fan Starts “Journey to 30” with Pitch for Padres
Business and Community | March 15, 2018
March 31 game marks 8-year-old Las Vegas girl Hailey Dawson's first Major League Baseball park pitch in 2018 using her UNLV 3D-printed hand.
Handled: UNLV Student Builds Robohand for World Series
People | October 27, 2017
Meet Maria Gerardi, the UNLV engineering graduate student behind 7-year-old Hailey Dawson's World Series pitch using a 3D-printed prosthetic hand.
Rebels Will Be Wearing the White Hat
Yoohwan Kim
Business and Community | May 16, 2017
New cybersecurity minor paving the way for a new bachelor's in the field — making UNLV one of just a few universities in the nation to offer such a program.
Mastering the Material
Kwang Kim
Research | April 10, 2017
Kwang Kim, winner of the 2016 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award, designs substances that propel us into a cleaner, healthier future.
Seven Successes of UNLV’s First CES
President Len Jessup eating a piece of popcorn at the CES convention
Research | January 13, 2017
Three students culminated 10 months of hard work by representing UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show with a better way to pop popcorn in the process.
Metal Rebel Tests Its Mettle
Metal Rebel
Campus News | June 2, 2015
UNLV’s robotics team goes up against the likes of MIT, NASA, and Lockheed Martin in international competition this week. The humanoid robot, dubbed "Metal Rebel," must navigate a disaster simulation course.