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 […]