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November
- In Memoriam: Ira "Joe" Hughlett
- Former Aztec High School student flies in "Microgravity"
- Patricio A. Rojas named to exclusive organization
- Chemical engineering student group awarded outstanding chapter, past president receives scholarship
- NMSU's aerospace engineering program credited as influence in Las Cruces top-10 ranking
- New Mexico State University Student Works with NASA Hands-on USRP Internship
- Homecoming 2009 Photo Gallery
- Founder, CEO of digital-imaging processing company to present lecture
- Civil engineers to present Ethics for Engineers class
- IBM Vice President to speak at NMSU
- Research focuses on enabling flight of unmanned aerial helicopters
- Robotics competition electrifies young minds
- The ghost of Goddard Hall: Building namesake rumored to be haunting engineering complex
- Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Tom Hill receives accolades at NMSU Homecoming
- Engineering honors donors through facility namings
- Charlie Johnson sits down with The Round Up and talks about his days as the Aggies’ star quarterback
- Finalists announced for the presidency at New Mexico State University
- In Memoriam: Dr. Ben K. Luck
- In Memoriam: John R. Glenn III
October
- Engineering lectures resume with president and founder of SEI Group, Inc.
- Six new faculty members join College of Engineering
- Thomas and Brown Hall gets renovations
- Event to honor Dean Jett Oct. 22
- Halliburton launches Global Scholars Program at NMSU
- Jacobs Technology supports robotics competition
- International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight gathers visionaries, builders of the future
- A passion for teaching came early for Idriss
- NMSU Art Gallery and College of Engineering to host Meet the Artist
- El Paso Electric Announces New Chief Operating Officer
- In Memoriam: Eugene M. “Gene” Dale
- In Memoriam: Frank Bailey
- Paulk begins career with NMDOT
- In Memoriam: Santiago "Jim" Bustamante
- New chair appointed to public utilities
September
- NMSU alumnus named one of TV's Unsung Pitchmen
- Two interim department heads named in the College of Engineering
- Memorial scholarship established in honor of William McCarthy
- 'Re-Energize America' conference energizes crowd, taps into U.S. Secretary of Energy
- National magazine rankings place NMSU among best colleges
- Civil engineering professor selected for AAAS fellowship
- Student group presents Lowell Catlett for fundraising dinner
- International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight
- Students chosen to represent the College of Engineering for the upcoming school year
- Gov. Richardson touts new GI Bill at NMSU
August
- NMSU faculty members attend NASA forum
- NMSU Art Gallery opens first exhibition of the fall with presentation on the Rio Grande
- NMSU energy conference has impressive list of speakers
- Bill Richardson on Post-9/11 GI Bill Education & NM benefit allowing veterans instate tuition (YouTube)
- Governor Richardson touts new GI Bill at NMSU
- NMSU Institute awarded for leadership in solar technology standards
- Energy Secretary Chu to speak at NMSU’s energy conference Aug. 31-Sept. 1
- Jacquez takes interim role as associate provost at NMSU
- Kersting honored for rural electrical distribution contributions
July
- NACEL Energy Announces Executive Appointment of CEO Paul Turner, Ph.D.
- Summer engineering program ends with a blast
- NMSU’s College of Engineering offers one-of-a-kind water resources training program
- NMSU takes a lead in growing America’s energy future
- A passion with a world-wide impact: Wendell Hull & Associates, Inc.
- In Memoriam: Gilbert Provencio
- Freeport-McMoRan awards scholarship to engineering students
- Most lucrative college degrees Hint: Grab a pencil, calculator, protractor ... or a drill. Engineering majors snag most of the top spots.
- In Memoriam: Deanna T. Estrada
- In Memoriam: David Prado
- Chemical engineering professor receives national Engineering Education Excellence Award
- In Memoriam: Alfonso "Al" F. Bowers, Jr.
- NMSU civil engineering Professor McCarthy was advocate for students with disabilities
- NMSU’s Career Expo seeks interested employers
- Conference at NMSU Aug. 31 – Sept. 1 to explore America’s energy future
- NMSU researcher receives wind-energy funding
- Electrical engineering department head Stephen Horan to retire
- NMSU staff member receives communications award
- Concrete group establishes civil engineering scholarship
May
- Isn't Life Terrific?
- Researchers study renewable energy sources through interdisciplinary project
- Freshmen receive College of Engineering’s largest scholarship
- Gas processors award $6,000 in scholarships
- Student-designed solar bus sign to grace campus
- In Memoriam: Curtis DeWayne Allmon
- Hope floats on a concrete canoe
- In Memoriam: Richard Ellsworth Weed
- Arvizu elected to State Farm Mutual (R) board of directors
April
- Oil industry CEO to be named Ingeniero Eminente
- Spring 2009 engineering graduates earn honors
- A letter from Dean Steven P. Castillo
- NMSU engineering makes gains in national rankings
- NMSU students build bridge and goodwill in Mexico
- Patricia Sullivan to serve second term on interstate education commission
- Civil engineering students earn place in national competition
- Student earns spot in Army High Performance Computing summer program
- White to serve as interim dean for College of Engineering
- Solar-powered sensor nets may be the future of border security
- Local student selected for physics internship
- Concrete Canoe Club to represent NMSU at national competition
- Ice Energy Names Chris Hickman Senior Vice President, Utility Solutions
- NMSU graduate goes solo, doubles as engineer and one man band
- Hall of Fame, Paul Klipsch
- Mapping the future of space travel: New Mexico State University undergrads use GPS technology to find and plot points at site of proposed spaceport
March
- NMSU alumnus to speak on recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities
- NMSU contest focuses on energy, environment
- Las Cruces native tapped by Obama to lead U.S. agency
- Concrete Canoe: Club to enter the ASCE competition
- Pixar co-founder talks business: NMSU alumnus and tech pioneer returns to give students advice
- NMSU Board of Regents nominees confirmed by New Mexico Senate
- Adventure Aviation soars to new heights: Military, private enterprise helps put airport business on the map
- Archivist Martha Andrews' book receives Caliente Award
- NMSU Foundation economic status
February
- Engineering Dean's Advisory Council welcomes new members, elects officers
- Faculty and staff receive Bromilow Awards
- Researchers explore production of polymers from biomass
- Pixar co-founder to speak at NMSU engineering lecture
- Electrical engineers earn outstanding paper award
- 2009 Interdisciplinary research grants awarded
- Butcher awarded NSF grant
- Renewable power could help energize economy
- NMSU grant funds research for algal biofuel industry models
- Library mounts exhibit of WWII letters
- Students examine Rio Grande through visual imagery
- Dean's Advisory Council letter to the editor
January
- Engineering lectures resume with software entrepreneur
- Mini-semester courses offered by Department of Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering
- Northrop Grumman to gift RMAX helicopter to NMSU
- World-known NASA scientist to speak at NMSU’s Water Lecture Series
- NMSU Engineering Honor Society receives Outstanding Chapter Award
- NMSU engineering students visit APS nuclear power plant
- NMSU honors faculty and staff during Spring Convocation
- NMSU helps launch NASA balloon into the record books
- New e-mentoring program offers students access to professional expertise
- Volt Co-Founder Jerome Shaw Receives Recognition for Support of U.S. Navy Sailors and Marines and Hire America’s Heroes Program
- NMSU Fulbright recipient represents university on international level
- In Memoriam: Benjamin Matthew Chandler
- Fatal crash claims student
- Hospital's first baby of the year comes in final hour of New Year's Day
- Serial entrepreneur Dave Durgin puts tech transfer on New Mexico's plate
- Ice Energy names Chris Hickman senior vice president, Utility Solutions
- Fairport school board fills vacancy
December
- A lifetime of work, education and hope leads to award for Belen native
- NMSU’s Professor Cook wins prestigious scientists, engineers national award
- NMSU, University of Chihuahua prepare joint Ph.D. program in civil engineering
- College of Engineering students earn graduation honors
- Conference seeks answers to water resource problems, reaching out internationally
- Library Publishes World War II Correspondence of NMSU Dean
- NMSU dean inspires potential engineers
- New Mexico, Land of Windchantment
November
- Local businessman to receive honors from the College of Engineering
- Charley Johnson to be acting head coach
- New Mexico Space Grant Consortium announces academic scholarship recipients
- Jesse McAvoy receives NASA graduate fellowship
- IEE researchers examine feasibility of local ‘green crude’ production
- New herbicide sprayer to help ranchers eradicate noxious plants
- Stake your claim; NMSU expert says New Mexico is in the midst of a land rush for wind
October
- Engineering technology student makes national conference presentation
- NMSU to research algae-based fuel
- Engineering inducts C. Gerald "Jerry" King into Circle of Honor
- Engineering welcomes new faculty
- NMSU Regents approve creating master’s and doctoral aerospace engineering degrees
- College of Engineering names four new professorships
- College of Engineering dedicates three facilities for student use
- Paul W. Klipsch Museum open for public visits
- Family continues honoring engineering legacy
- A Step Forward For Solar Power
- NMSU M-TEC engineers developing automated chile destemmer
September
- Mechanical Chile Picker
- Dan Arvizu to be inducted to the HENAAC Hall of Fame
- Opening the Gateways to Engineering: SWE inverviews Dean Castillo (page 56)
- NMSU does 'dirty bomb' exercise
- NMSU College of Engineering earns high ranking from Hispanic Business magazine
- Civil engineering professor named Educator of the Year
- NASA C-9 ‘The Weightless Wonder’ Experience
- In Memoriam: John Zscheile, Jr.
- In Memoriam: William Henry "Bill" Schwettmann
- GE Digital Energy names Juan Macias new Protection and Control General Manager
August
- Freshmen engineers receive warm welcome to NMSU
- NMSU students find careers in forensic engineering
- Chemical engineering alumnus named Boeing Space Shuttle vice president and program manager
- Flying Aggies take on zero gravity
- NMSU civil engineers take bridge evaluation to new level
- Obituary - Robert "Bobby" Rubio
- RASEM holds summer institute
- College of Engineering ambassadors named
- Mechanical Engineer Edgar Conley receives NASA fellowship
- College of Engineering announces 2008 Homecoming events
July
- Free ride for BalloonSat yields big success
- Surveying engineering professor authors new book
- Industrial engineering student selected for ALL-WAC team
- Engineers Without Borders chapter comes to NMSU
- NMSU awarded grant for Water Security Program
- Clovis native co-founder of Pixar studio
- John Hernandez: Providing local expertise to the world
- Online engineering program celebrates first five graduates
June
- 6/3/08 - NMSU Concrete Canoe Team takes first overall
- 6/3/08 - Engineering Dean Castillo named one of the most important Hispanics in technology
- 6/3/08 - Solar society honors John Wiles
- 6/2/08 - Surveying engineering department receives equipment
- 6/2/08 - NMSU emeritus engineering professor Louis Kleine passes away
- 6/2/08 - Surveying engineering students take home a win from national competition
May
- 5/15/08 - NMSU Engineering Alumnus Jerome Shaw receives Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- 5/15/08 - NMSU chemical engineering students visit copper mine
- 5/09/08 - Making Every Day Count - Ed and Harold Foreman
- 5/8/08 - Obituary: Ivan Scott Taylor
- 5/8/08 - A shining example: Center unveils new solar energy system
- 5/8/08 - On-line engineering programs meet student and employer needs
- 5/7/08 - NMSU to graduate more than 2,100 students, Foreman brothers to be honored
- 5/7/08 - Spring 2008 engineering graduation honors
- 5/7/08 - NMSU engineering graduate program makes national ranking
- 5/7/08 - Engineering challenge features national winners
April
- 4/10/08 - NMSU engineers help develop solar power
- 4/8/08 - Institute for Energy and the Environment appoints associate director
- 4/8/08 - Tektronix equips state-of-the-art electronics laboratory at NMSU
- 4/8/08 - New Information Engineering Technology degree program fills market needs
March
- 3/31/08 - Environmental design contest fuels clean energy
- 3/31/08 - Engineering scholarship established to help rural students
- 3/31/08 - Retired Arizona Public Service CEO to launch electric utility management lecture series
- 3/31/08 - NMSU’s Engineering Honor Society inducts new members
- 3/19/08 - Western Refining supports NMSU engineering
- 3/17/08 - Professor Russell Paul Jedlicka laid to rest
February
- 2/27/08 - NMSU alum establishes mechanical engineering professorship
- 2/27/08 - CEMRC director co-authors book
- 2/26/08 - Civil Engineering Professor recognized as conservationist
- 2/26/08 - Engineering staff honored in former dean’s name
- 2/26/08 - NMSU to open one-of-a-kind test center for unmanned aircraft
- 2/26/08 - NMSU researchers help cities develop solar power
- 2/18/08 - Vice president from Texas Instruments to speak at NMSU
- 2/14/08 - Student works on water purity for ravaged areas
- 2/14/08 - Walls headed to New Mexico State
- 2/14/08 - Eta Kappa Nu chapter receives Outstanding Chapter Award two years in a row
- 2/14/08 - In Memoriam: Joe T. Budenholzer
- 2/6/08 - Navy commander to speak with students
December/January
- 1/28/08 - NMSU honors top, ‘millionaire’ researchers
- 1/16/08 - NMSU honors faculty and staff during Spring Convocation
- 1/16/08 - Visiting professor to present talk on Infrared Antennas
- 1/9/08 - NMSU grad ready for term as LCHBA president
- 1/7/08 - Community profile: Cruces businessman finds success in civil engineering, leadership class
- 1/7/08 - Hutchinson named manager of Sandia’s Surveillance Systems Department
- 1/7/08 - Raymond Jones "Ray J" Black Jr., Obituary
- 12/20/07 - Engineering graduates receive honors
- 12/13/07 - Event celebrates collaborative project to advance high-performance computing
- 12/4/07 - Civil engineering alumnus establishes professorship
- 12/3/07 - NMSU graduate, Intel manager named 2008 British Marshall Scholar
November
- 11/29/07 - Engineering student receives national recognition for leadership
- 11/29/07 - Head of the civil engineering department retires
- 11/29/07 - NMSU receives NASA EPSCoR award for aerospace research
- 11/26/07 - CEMRC receives increase in funding for environmental support
- 11/21/07 - NMSU civil engineering professor receives Presidential honors
- 11/20/07 - Industrial engineering students host IBM presentation
- 11/19/07 - NMSU ready to bring renewable energy to Albuquerque airport
- 11/16/07 - Electrical engineering alumnus receives AISES Technical Excellence Award
- 11/16/07 - David Voelz named Klipsch Professor
- 11/16/07 - NMSU to help Albuquerque Sunport with solar heat and power
- 11/16/07 - NMSU to help develop solar codes and standards board
- 11/16/07 - Sevostianov receives additional funding for composite model
- 11/16/07 - IEE one of five Governor Richardson energy innovation grantees
- 11/16/07 - Smart Bridge to be monitored under traffic loading conditions
- 11/16/07 - New funding supports research in data transmission and acquisition
- 11/16/07 - Researchers receive funding for exploitation of polarimetric imagery
- 11/16/07 - CEMRC receives funding to continue computer simulation models
- 11/16/07 - Microsatellite Target System receives second round of funding
- 11/16/07 - CEMRC receives additonal funding to continue WIPP support
- 11/15/08 - Physics undergraduate enrollment growth exceeds national trend
- 11/15/07 - NMSU-sponsored competition encourages young students to think about renewable energy
- 11/15/07 - In Depth: How to make bridges safer
- 11/15/07 - National essay contest deadline Nov. 30
- 11/07/07 - Alumna Marzyeh Ghassemi on MTV
- 11/06/07 - New course in Health Physics to be offered spring semester
- 11/05/07 - Founder of Providence Technologies to give entrepreneurship lecture
- 11/05/07 - Opportunity is knocking: Your IRA is the key
October 2007
- 10/30/07 - Surveying engineering students create maze
- 10/30/07 - NMSU College of Engineering offers renewable energy technologies minor
- 10/29/07 - Future engineers test skills in competition
- 10/24/07 - NMSU student helps break speed record
- 10/23/07 - New study finds climate change to reduce New Mexico’s supply water, costly impacts foreseen for state’s economy and agriculture
- 10/22/07 - Civil engineering technology reps assess Amador Hotel
- 10/19/2007 - College of Engineering Homecoming celebrations
- 10/17/2007 - New Mexico AMP Conference rewarding to students
- 10/12/07 - NMSU chemical engineering alum receives Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award
- 10/12./07 - NMSU Alumnus brings new jobs to Las Cruces
- 10/11/2007 - Engineering receives $1.5 million to establish water laboratory
- 10/09/07 - Jacobs Technologies supports chemical engineering student projects
- 10/08/078 - Danny P. Harris Named OGE Energy Corp. Chief Operating Officer
- 10/08/07 - Institute for Energy and the Environment awarded Energy Innovation grants
- 10/07/07 - Engineering physics baccalaureate program receives accreditation
- 10/04/07 - NMSU engineering dean appointed to National Science Foundation and National Academy of Engineering advisory committees
September 2007
- 09/18/07 - Researchers, engineers team up on saltcedar control system
- 9/17/07 - NMSU continues to help hospitals help themselves
- 9/14/07 - NMSU alum joins CH2M HILL
- 09/10/07 - NMSU site of Bridge to Doctorate program again
- 09/10/07 - FDA funds E coli detection research for WERC Design Contest
- 09/10/07 - ConocoPhillips funds desalination research
- 09/10/07 - Sandia extends funding for stream flow and ground-water flow software development
- 09/10/07 - NRC funds development of nuclear minor program
- 09/10/07 - Invertix and NMSU to Develop Novel Antenna Technology
August 2007
- 08/09/07 - NMSU expert to inspect Minneapolis bridge disaster site
- 08/19/07 - NMSU honors educators during Fall Convocation
- 08/27/07 - Bingaman tours NMSU outreach program
- 08/19/ 07 - Living Learning Communities increase chances of student success
- 08/22/07 - New laser system: Short pulses promise big benefits
- 08/20/07 - New Mexico State University ranks 32nd nationally in research expenditures
- 08/20/07 - NMSU Career Expo largest ever
- 08/15/07 - NMSU Institute pioneers global renewable energy development
- 08/29/07 - NMSU joins the world of Myspace
July 2007
- 07/27/ 07 - El Paso Electric contributes $50,000 to NMSU College of Engineering
- 07/27/ 07 - Engineering student wins third place in national paper contest
- 07/27/ 07 - In Memoriam: Col. Jon Lockey
- 07/27/ 07 - Engineers and astronomers team up for planetary studies
- 07/27/ 07 - Faculty earn best poster award at National Capstone Design Conference
- 07/27/ 07 - NMSU attracts defense contractor
- 07/27/ 07 - NMSU engineer earns NASA award
- 07/27/ 07 - NMSU program finalist for national award
- 07/27/ 07 - Red chile farmers and processors get help from NMSU faculty
- 07/27/ 07 - Southern New Mexico Pre-Engineering Task Force seeks pathways
- 07/27/ 07 - Startup company launched to bring nanotechnology advances to market
- 07/27/ 07 - In Memoriam: Stephanie Johnson
- 07/27/ 07 - Survey students help to map the future of space travel
- 07/27/ 07 - Systems engineering a new option for distance learners
- 07/27/ 07 - Wind tunnel research a world’s first
June 2007
- 06/29/ 07 - NMSU part of Texas alliance to develop wind research facility
- 06/29/ 07 - CEMRC receives extension of work for LANL at WIPP
- 06/29/ 07 - Civil engineering professor to evaluate bridge load capacity
- 06/29/ 07 - Canoe team takes sixth in nationals
- 06/29/ 07 - CEMRC receives extension for underground air monitoring
- 06/29/ 07 - Bridge Inspection Program continues NMDOT work
- 06/29/ 07 - M-TEC to manufacture high-speed photometer for NMSU’s one-meter telescope
- 06/28/ 07 - Engineer at home in classroom
- 06/28/ 07- Arrowhead Center, M-TEC help small businesses succeed
- 06/28/07 - Guest Editorial: When Surveyors Go Bad
- 06/28/07 - John Richard Meier Obituary
- 06/28/07 - Software donation valued at $22.8 million will help NMSU engineering students
- 06/28/07 - Research on hummingbird flight will lead to new technology
- 06/28/07 - New Mexico becomes eligible for NASA EPSCoR
May 2007
- 05/30/07 - NMSU student is a winner at statewide speech competition
- 05/30/07 - Eta Kappa Nu chapter receives Outstanding Chapter Award
- 05/30/07 - Researchers develop low-cost, low-energy desalination process
- 05/30/07 - ADC Foundation scholarship for engineering students
- 05/30/07 - Mental and physical abilities help concrete canoe team sweep regional competition
- 05/24/07 - Chemical engineering professor selected for University Research Council awards
- 05/22/07 - Kevin Konchalski Spring 2007 Outstanding Senior
- 05/22/07 - Michelle Teresa Estrada-Lopez NMSU Valedictorian, Engineering Highest Honors
- 05/16/07 - LCHS Grad is NMSU Valedictorian (.pdf)
- 05/07/07 - NMSU students take first in engineering contest
- 05/04/07 - NMSU student one of eight nationwide selected for social responsibility program
- 05/04/07 - NMSU students take first place in human-powered water distiller contest
- 05/03/07 - NMSU Donates $50,000 in Equipment to LCHS Media Program (.pdf)
April 2007
- 04/27/07 - Research to investigate customer-driven emergency power generation
- 04/27/07 - CEMRC to continue in vivo bioassay of WIPP workers
- 04/27/07 - CEMRC receives extended contract for WIPP support
- 04/27/07 - Microsatellite Target System receives second round of funding
- 04/27/07 - Civil Engineering Department receives four-year grant for highway evaluation
- 04/27/07 - Air Force funds fourth year of free-space laser communications research
- 04/27/07 - Researchers receive additional funding for polarmetric imaging investigation
- 04/27/07 - CEMRC receives funding to continue radiological monitoring of WIPP site
- 04/27/07 - CEMRC receives increased funding to investigate repository performance
- 04/27/07 - WERC receives funding to reduce pesticide use
- 04/27/07 - University nets $215M military contract
- 04/27/07 - NMSU shares a portion of Army contract
- 04/26/07 - University nets $215M Military contract (.pdf)
- 04/26/07 - Two NMSU students receive Goldwater scholarships
- 04/23/07 - NMSU Harvests Forces of Nature
- 04/19/07 - NMSU research recognized for helping small business
- 04/11/07 - Technology venture capitalist to give lecture
- 04/10/07 - Business is a Family Affair for Andrew Baca (.pdf)
- 04/10/07 - Gadsden SEMAA students to participate in moon buggy competition
- 04/10/07 - NMSU solar research institute receives $4.2 million award
- 04/01/07 - Students to compete in International Environmental Design Contest
March 2007
- 03/13/07 - Engineering faculty, staff honored in former dean's name
- 03/13/07 - Texas is finalist for wind turbine research facility: $80 billion international market for turbines at stake (.pdf)
- 03/13/07 - Texas a Finalist for Wind Turbine Research Facility (.pdf)
- 03/08/07 - Professor wins surveyor of the year award
- 03/05/07 - NMSU alumnus Daniel Sachs will be the featured speaker
- 03/05/07 - NMSU installs info unit at solar power plant
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