Clay Dean, director of General Motors Global Advanced Design organization, gave the Ira A. Fulton College’s honored alumnus lecture entitled “Things I wish I knew when I left BYU,” giving students things to know now and in the future.

Junior and senior students in the Ira A. Fulton College will have the opportunity to be mentored by successful professionals as part of the college's Advancement Council for Engineering and Technology (ACET) conference November 10 and 11.

Student innovators with bright ideas were not in short supply at the BYU Venture Factory Club.  But something that was missing was a place to develop their fresh ideas.  So Venture Factory advisor Justin Zsiros put together a plan to create the perfect space for these young entrepreneurs—the Maker Space.

Michael Scott, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of 54 American professors recently named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thomson Reuters in computer science. Scott was recognized among nearly 3,000 researchers worldwide who have published influential articles in academic journals.

Associate Dean Larry Howell was recently recognized with the 2016 Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award from his alma mater, Purdue University.

BYU civil engineering professor Kevin Franke was one of four U.S. professors invited to a special geotechnical engineering reconnaissance mission to learn how the recent earthquake in Italy  impacted ancient and modern infrastructure. The expertise of Franke and his BYU colleagues in these types of reconnaissance missions is in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) to collect imagery at natural disaster sites.

Meriah Kulikovskyi, a sophomore in the manufacturing engineering technology program, spent part of her summer in Dongguan, China working for ATL Technology as an intern with BYU’s Weidman Center for Global Leadership program.

Mechanical engineering student Christine Mooth has won the 2016 Student Development Award at the Women Tech Council's ninth annual Women Tech Awards.   

To help introverts feel more prepared to stand out at next week’s STEM Fair, BYU Career Services put together a free workshop on what to do before, during and after the fair.

Kevin Driggs, senior manager of HR at IM Flash Technologies, provided students with tips on getting interviews from job fairs and how to be good interviewees.