Newly engineered microscopic technology, developed by a collaborative team of BYU researchers, allows for the introduction of DNA into egg cells with a decreased risk of cell death. With the invention of a microscopic lance, that is 10 times smaller than previous injection delivery systems, these engineers and scientists have reinvented a technology that previously has had no major advances for almost 50 years. 

Doug Welling, the CEO of Jacobsen Construction Company, spoke at the convocation ceremonies for the Ira A. Fulton College. Welling's memorable speech to the over 500 recent graduates taught that the men or women they become in the future will be shaped by who they choose to be today. 

Cameron and Sara Taylor are both graduating with degrees in electrical engineering and then heading to graduate school at MIT this fall.  Charles and Amy Wood have combined their engineering abilities for humanitarian projects in India and Peru, and will return to Peru this summer. 

Students in BYU’s Engineering Capstone program have created a portable ventilator for babies that costs only $500 to produce. That's big news in countries that can't afford existing $40,000 ventilators.  Doctors plan to use the ventilator in the Phillipines, Africa and other developing nations. 

Three BYU researchers are behind the wheel of a new effort to help the Utah Department of Transportation come closer to the goal of zero fatalities on Utah highways.  Civil engineering professors Grant Schultz and Mitsuru Saito, along with Shane Reese from statistics, were recently awarded UDOT's Executive Director’s Excellence in Transportation Safety Award for the model they created. 

On Mar. 20 J. Greg Renfo taught students about effecting change in a large multinational environment as the most recent guest speaker in the Weidman Center for Global Leadership Lecture Series.

Renfro, vice president of global manufacturing strategy in Rig Solutions at National Oilwell Varco (NOV), received his degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico.

The prestigious NSF fellowship provides each student with three years of financial support, including a $32,000 annual stipend. Our college's recipients include current BYU graduate students Kendrick Shepherd (CE) and Thomas Hardin (ME), pictured above, and alumni Wyatt Felt (ME), Anna Hawes (ChE) and Chad Varner (ChE).

After 43 years of distinguished service to the university, Ken Forster, the current mechanical engineering projects lab supervisor, is retiring. In appreciation of his time at BYU, Ken has been selected as a 2014 President’s Appreciation Award recipient.

BYU Information Technology students took first place at the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) at the National Information Assurance Training and Education Center at Idaho State University. In addition to the honor of taking first, each member of the four-person team will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the NSA.

A group of BYU industrial designers are on a mission to add a bit of style and beauty to the functionality of bike helmets. The students have been tasked by the folks running Trek’s Bontrager line to come up with some solutions to the ugly helmet dilemma.