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Faith

Devotional: Lessons from the Master Engineer

By Ashleigh Staples
June 30, 2026
Sharing remarks on understanding the Creator and understanding ourselves better, Anton Bowden delivered insights from his area of expertise at a BYU devotional this morning.
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Character

Cougar Query: Anton Bowden

June 28, 2026
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
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Announcements

Tim McLain named new dean of the College of Engineering

June 15, 2026
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President Justin Collings announced today that Tim McLain will be the next dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering.
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Intellect

BYU engineering students design new wearable tech for search and rescue rats... yes, rats!

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
May 21, 2026
A recent BYU engineering capstone team took on the challenge of designing an improved backpack localization device for APOPO, a global organization that has deployed HeroRATS for more than 25 years. APOPO’s rats have helped save millions of lives by sniffing out explosives in war-torn regions and detecting tuberculosis in laboratory settings.
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Character

BYU student named Honor Graduate as top U.S. Marine Corps Officer candidate in the nation

By Ellie Larsen
May 19, 2026
BYU students have earned some of the nation’s highest honors, but for the first time ever, a BYU student has been named the top U.S. Marine Corps officer candidate in the country.
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Intellect

BYU's latest Supermileage vehicle winner: Squeezing 2,145 miles out of a single gallon of fuel

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
May 07, 2026
BYU engineering students keep finding ways to squeeze more miles out of a gallon of gas. For the third time in the last four years, BYU has won the Shell Eco Marathon, meaning they’ve once again built the most fuel efficient supermileage vehicle in all the land.
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Character

Mountains to milestones: How this BYU graduate overcame doubt

By Ellie Larsen
April 19, 2026
BYU chemical engineering student Ovidio Gomez Avila stepped onto the now familiar pavement for his final semester. The sunrise-glow over the mountains in Provo reminded him of the rolling horizon back home.
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Intellect

Micro to Mega Engineering: Scaling up the 'World’s Smallest Nerf Blaster'

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
March 02, 2026
BYU engineers had so much fun working with Mark Rober to create the “world's smallest Nerf blaster,” they continued the collaboration to see how big they could make it. The micro ant-blaster has become a mega launcher with the same flexible, single-body design.
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Intellect

I love to see the temple… but I need a microscope

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 23, 2025
In honor of BYU’s 150th anniversary, electrical engineering professor Greg Nordin and student Callum Galloway have created 150 microscopic replicas of existing LDS temples, all on a 12-by-19 millimeter microchip. Each of these unique temples — 150 different floor plans to celebrate 150 years of BYU — is less than a grain of rice in length.
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Intellect

The next chapter in BYU's origami engineering: Student-discovered patterns unfold like blooming flowers, have major applications

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
August 19, 2025
BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new family of origami patterns with promising applications across a range of fields, including space systems, medical devices, bulletproof shields, architecture, furniture and aerodynamic components for transportation.
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Intellect

Wildfires in residential areas are on the rise; why hydrants and the water system behind them were never meant to stop those fires

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
July 01, 2025
BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has particular expertise in the planning, design, construction and operation of public water systems. That expertise has been increasingly important (and regularly sought out) in the wake of apocalyptic wildfires that have taxed those public water systems.
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Character

BYU graduate turns engineering into impact

By Bitsy Tullis
April 22, 2025
“God is a creator, and as a daughter of God, I am meant to create as well,” said BYU engineering student Rebecca Frei. “Whatever it is we’re doing in the world, we should be doing something that will positively impact others — that will create good.”
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Intellect

BYU professional programs land high marks, engineering makes big jump in U.S. News grad ranks

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 08, 2025
BYU’s law and business programs remained highly ranked in the 2025 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings released today, while BYU’s engineering graduate programs made major jumps over previous marks.
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Intellect

Air traffic control for drones: BYU engineers introduce low-cost UAV detection technology

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
February 10, 2025
With the exponential rise in drone activity, safely managing low-flying airspace has become a major issue. Using a network of small, low-cost radars, engineering professor Cammy Peterson and her colleagues have built an air traffic control system for drones that can effectively and accurately track anything in an identified low-altitude airspace.
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Intellect

BYU engineers are accelerating the ‘helpful robot’ revolution

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
January 23, 2025
BYU robotics experts are building a humanoid robot that can impressively lift large and unwieldy objects such as ladders, kayaks, car tires, chairs, and heavy boxes. And it does so safely because its whole structure is flexible.
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Intellect

Origami-inspired space tech: BYU mechanical engineers create deployable systems for NASA and U.S. Air Force

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
January 13, 2025
BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research lab, inspired by the ancient art of origami, is building a foldable, compact design that could help launch satellite systems to space in a rocket. After five years of research, a team led by professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby has succeeded in creating foldable antenna systems than can deploy off space rockets and permanently open to enhance satellite systems.
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BYU's origami-inspired antenna self-deploys for space applications. Produced by BYU Video.

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Intellect

BYU origami-inspired chair design featured on Mark Rober’s Top 10 list

Julie Walker
By Julie Walker
November 07, 2024
A futuristic BYU-designed, origami-inspired Flex Chair, cut out of a single piece of flat material and folded into shape, has made YouTuber Mark Rober’s Top 10 list. In a Nov. 2 video post, Rober spotlights the chair at #7 on his list of Crunch Lab builds in the past year, and credits BYU compliant mechanisms researchers for the innovative design.
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