Boise State University is committed to its role as a Doctoral Research University (R2). The College of Engineering emphasizes hands-on experience for both undergraduate and graduate students as our faculty pursue important research in their individual areas of expertise.
Students working in ME labs work with biomaterials, plasma, solar energy, robots, and smart materials. Cutting edge research opportunities are available to our undergraduate and graduate students, including opportunities to present and to publish.
‘Gem’ captures infrasound from Earth’s hazardous environments
Throughout creation and testing, Gem sensors have been deployed at research sites as far away as the Villarrica volcano and as close as the mountains of Idaho. Each time, these sensors have delivered their weight in research gold: infrasound data from some of the world’s most extreme environments.