College of Engineering
May 09, 2012
The University of New Orleans has been selected to receive a grant worth approximately $280,000 from the Department of Defense to buy state-of-the-art defense research equipment.
May 04, 2012
The fall 2011 issue of the UNO Magazine earned an Award of Distinction in the educational institution category.
April 27, 2012
ONTILITY Solar Training is partnering with the University of Orleans to offer solar energy workforce training from May 21-25 on the UNO campus
April 26, 2012
Mark Savoff, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Entergy Corporation, will serve as the University of New Orleans’ spring 2012 commencement speaker.
April 17, 2012
University of New Orleans President Peter J. Fos announced that Joe M. King has been named executive director of graduate programs.
April 04, 2012
The University of New Orleans has achieved a milestone in titanium shipbuilding research at its National Center For Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM), located at the NASA Michoud Facility in New Orleans East.
March 21, 2012
Greg Williamson, who will enroll as a student at the University of New Orleans in the fall, has been awarded the Jack McCoy Scholarship from the Lint Center, a nonprofit focused on supporting the educational pursuits of the next generation of American counterintelligence and national security workers.
March 20, 2012
The University of New Orleans School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering’s titanium shipbuilding project is featured in an article in the current issue of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News.
January 19, 2012
Chris McKesson, a University of New Orleans adjunct professor of naval architecture and marine engineering, provided analysis to multiple news organizations, including CNN and USA Today, in the wake of the Costa Concordia disaster off the Italian coast.
November 18, 2011
Awards will be presented to individuals associated with the College of Engineering whose service to the College is considered outstanding, as well as to an engineering project that reflects the best the local engineering community has to offer.
October 11, 2011
The University of New Orleans has been awarded a 10-year $3 million grant as one of three American university partners on a major South Korean initiative in marine structure and shipbuilding.
August 08, 2011
University of New Orleans student Norman Vallette Jr. is a member of the sailing team that won the June Oakcliff Invitational, sponsored by the International Sailing Federation, held June 25-26 in Oyster Bay, New York.
August 03, 2011
The University of New Orleans is the recipient of a 3-year $937,000 award from the Office of Naval Research to design and build a new type of robotic “eel” that is capable of operating in shallow water environments where Navy personnel could be at risk.
June 27, 2011
The University of New Orleans took first place in two events and finished second overall at the annual Solar Splash competition held June 8-12 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
June 15, 2011
University of New Orleans engineering students Bruce Johnson and Patrick Danton were among several volunteers who taught approximately 100 Girl Scouts, ages 9-14, rocket building and rocket launching on June 12 during a “Girl Scouts Go NASA Workshop” held at Grace Memorial Baptist Church in Slidell.
May 31, 2011
The University of New Orleans has received a state match in the amount of $40,000 to help establish the Riley Parker Endowed Professorship in Engineering.
April 26, 2011
A team of four University of New Orleans electrical engineering students won first place in the 2011 IEEE Region 5 Student Robotics Contest held in Baton Rouge on April 16.
April 08, 2011
A group of UNO civil engineering students is seeing the fruits of their labor--and so can anyone else who visits a newly paved city block in the Lower 9th Ward. 23 final semester seniors have undertaken an ambitious senior design project in coordination with the Make It Right Foundation.
March 25, 2011
The University of New Orleans celebrated more than $2.2 million in campus upgrades as part of its “Students First” initiative during a ceremony held at the University Center. The improvements were funded by federal hurricane recovery money.
March 23, 2011
University of New Orleans doctoral student Lei Zhao has been awarded the Young Engineer Travel Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Gas Turbine Institute.
March 21, 2011
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the University of New Orleans’ oldest and most rigorous interdisciplinary academic honor society, welcomed 49 new members into its ranks in a ceremony on the UNO campus.
February 24, 2011
A gift from University of New Orleans graduate Riley Parker will fund an endowed professorship in the electrical engineering department at UNO.
January 20, 2011
The University of New Orleans College of Engineering held its 15th annual Engineering Recognition Awards Ceremony to honor prominent UNO alumni and leaders in the engineering industry last night at the Homer L. Hitt Alumni and Visitors Center on the UNO campus.
December 22, 2010
Two staff members of the College of Engineering’s National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM), John Alt and Mark Lotz, were recognized for their support to the NASA Orion Program in a ceremony held December 14 at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.