As the Lobo Football team prepares to compete in the Rate Bowl later this month, the team’s first out-of-town bowl game since 2004, one player is wrapping up his first semester as a master’s student in Nuclear Engineering.

While Mercury Swaim, No. 16 on the football team, doesn’t see many players pursue engineering degrees, he said the two require similar thinking and discipline.

“Football is very mentally demanding, and it’s helped me learn to process things quickly. It’s similar to engineering because you have …

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has named Grant Rudnick the Fall 2025 recipient of the prestigious George E. Breece Award, which honors the senior with the highest grade-point average in engineering coursework of the semester’s graduating class.

Established in 1921, the award is among the oldest endowments in the School. Recipients consistently have grade-point averages above 4.0, reflecting a majority of A+ grades earned in their undergraduate engineering courses.

Rudnick graduates this semester with his deg…

SHM Team: Fernando Moreu, Ronan Reza, Michael Carl and Mahsa Sanei after receiving the SHM in Action award at Palo Alto, September 10, 2025.

For the second time in a row, The University of New Mexico took home an award from Stanford University’s International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2025) by showcasing how humans and robots can work together to transform the future of structural health monitoring.

A team led by Fernando Moreu, associate professor in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engi…