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Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics

This section of the college news site gathers stories that feature the faculty, students, staff and programs of the UA Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering and Mechanics. For detailed information about all other aspects of CAEM, please visit the department website.

Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics News

A group of high school girls wearing matching blue "Summer Engineering Academy" t-shirts grin off into the distance at a potato (off frame) they just launched out of a homemade potato launcher.

$10,000 From Bayer Funds K-12 Engineering Education and Outreach

A portion of the grant goes to support the UA College of Engineering Summer Engineering Academy.
Two young men and two young women wearing Hawaiian shirts and bright yellow vests kneel for a photo next to their solar oven, a cardboard and aluminum foil device labeled with their group name: "Team Hot Stuff."

Clouds Clear Out and Competition Heats Up at Solar Oven Throw Down

Freshman engineers harness the power of the sun in their first hands-on design experience as UA students.
Don Gervasio, wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt, stands between a pump and pipe in a laboratory with tubes hanging in the background

Protecting the Pipes Used to Harvest Solar Energy

University of Arizona engineers are using $1M from the DOE to minimize corrosion in large-scale solar energy production.
Carbon fiber material

Startup Licenses Carbon Fiber Tech to Treat Broken Bones

A UA engineering professor has invented a flexible carbon fiber fabric designed to be inserted inside and around a fractured bone. The technology has been licensed to a startup and has already received venture capital funding to take it forward.

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