Mines Magazine: Fall 2022


Gabriel Fierro, assistant professor of computer science, is working to develop a standard way of describing buildings and their data to make it easier to develop software for building systems.
We asked Xiaoli Zhang, associate professor of mechanical engineering, to tell us more about how machines can learn and share knowledge to improve manufacturing processes.
Improving durability and developing alternative materials, with biochar, mine tailings and more, are among the research ideas being pursued by Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty.
Deborah Peacock ’78 is the president of an intellectual property firm that specializes in legal issues within the spaceflight and aerospace industries.
Originally organized as an alumni fundraiser, the annual golf tournament now contributes to an endowment that provides funds for Mines student scholarships.
“I really wanted to explore how the things we build and design impact the people they are actually made for,” said Peyton Gibson ’17.
For Trevor Bachand ’22, cofounding a startup was a scary but rewarding process, and it was Mines’ available resources and support that helped guide him through starting and running a business.
Jamie and Doug Wickler are in the exact spot they want to be at a time when it has become critical for all people to be involved in our food systems: stewarding the land, providing food to their community and constantly considering how to update their systems and processes to do those things as best as they can.
Geophysics faculty, students and alumni at Colorado School of Mines are looking below the surface to enable innovation in energy, infrastructure, space exploration — and beyond.