Engineering, Design and Society

After learning about the history, politics and economics of recycling in Colombia, a group of eleven students traveled to Bogota, Colombia during Spring Break to meet the women in person and test their assumptions and ideas on the ground.

Teams in the Spring 2023 Cornerstone Design Competition worked to find creative and innovative ways to solve issues related to water, like drought, floods, overconsumption and pollution.

The students were part of the Human-Centered Design Studio, where teams create adaptive equipment for people with disabilities.

Jessica Smith, professor of engineering, design and society, has spent years getting to know engineers in the field, learning about how they thought about their work in the broader context of their community and the planet.

As Presidential Fellow, Dr. Youmans will lead the DI&A team at Mines and collaborate across campus to help the university achieve its strategic goals around diversity, inclusion and access.

Student teams worked on projects that addressed environmental, social problems associated with waste

A team that restored a 1927 Caterpillar Crawler Tractor for Lakewood Heritage Belmar Park took first at the annual design showcase at Mines.

What is exciting about our roadmap is that it considers community acceptance and sustainable development from the very first stages of design, rather than after a project has been fully planned,” said Jessica Smith, professor of engineering, design and society at Mines.

A delegation of students and faculty members from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s School of Mines in Medellín and the University of Texas at Arlington recently spent a week at Colorado School

Winning the semester-long design challenge – and the $1,000 grand prize – was a solution to improve the computer user experience for older individuals.