<p><span style="font-size: 12.350000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 200,000 square-foot Engineering Building and Engineering Research Laboratory provide new spaces for students and faculty to learn and work in innovative settings. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.350000381469727px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Engineering students work in one of many experiential learning spaces in the Engineering Building.</span></p>
BYU’s Engineering Building was awarded Higher Education/Research Building Project of the Year by the Associated General Contractors of Utah January 24th.
Once a flood victim herself, BYU student Anelle Concepción now uses her studies to protect communities from floods.
<p>Professors Larry Howell and David Morgan presented at the Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan on Nov. 9, 2018. </p>
<p>BYU's exhibit was featured at the Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. from Oct. 24 to Dec. 21 of 2018.</p>
<p>The exhibit featured solar array models similar to those used in space by NASA.</p>
<p>Designed by BYU students, the Tessel Backpack was one of many functional origami-inspired designs.</p>
<p>Folded by former BYU student Matthew Gong, "Mother and Child" shows the creative genius of art folded from a single, uncut sheet of paper.</p>
<p>Professors Morgan and Howell taught students from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology to make the whimsical origami chocolate as part of a student workshop. </p>
From police shields to backpacks and solar panels to dishware, BYU engineering and design students are using Japanese origami principles to innovate and problem-solve.
Origami-inspired products by BYU engineers and industrial designers were featured in the exhibit, "Folding the Future: Theoretical Origami Devices" at the Japan Information & Culture Center, a part of the Embassy of Japan, in Washington D.C. from Oct. 24 to Dec. 21 of 2018.
BYU Rocketry ended the year with a bang earning the new Guinness World Record for highest launch of an an effervescent tablet rocket on Dec. 12.
It’s a great time to be a part of the BYU College of Engineering.
In 2018, BYU College of Engineering faculty and students participated in ground-breaking research, received awards for innovation and made the world a better place by serving others.
Below are just a few highlights from the BYU College of Engineering in 2018:
The nonprofit behind the original Village Drill, WHOlives.org, and BYU engineering students have teamed up again to make a smaller but equally powerful version of the tool that can still reach depths over 100 feet and costs less than $2,500 per well to a local community.
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