The Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology received new and continued accreditation for eight programs from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Inc.

At this year's University Conference, BYU's most prestigious award went to Mechanical Engineering professor Larry L. Howell. Howell received the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, BYU's highest faculty honor. Five other Ira A. Fulton College faculty members were also honored.

Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, named 264 scholars for the 2015-16 academic year. For the third consecutive year, BYU is a leader with 19 scholars. 

"There are tender mercies that can happen alongside the most horrible of circumstances." Two months after her husband unexpectedly died, Merry Bird sat in her first BYU class. Now she's graduating with a degree in Facility and Property Management.

BYU industrial design researchers have sniffed out an unspoken rule among women when it comes to fragrances: Women don’t buy perfume for other women, and they certainly don’t share them.  According to the study, published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, women who do buy or share fragrances with other women choose fragrances they don’t like themselves—or no longer value.

BYU Chip Camp unites 7th and 8th grade budding mathematicians, scientists and engineers to discover the possibilities in STEM education. And after only one year on BYU’s campus, it’s doubled in size. The camp sponsors, Micron Foundation and IMFlash Technologies, in partnership with BYU’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, are dedicated to developing an effective program that promotes STEM education.

Professor Mark Colton of the BYU Mechanical Engineering Department delivered the university's devotional address to a packed de Jong Concert Hall on the topic of keeping and strengthening a testimony. 

Three BYU mechanical engineering students have been awarded prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships for 2015.

The BYU Supermileage vehicle achieved 1,244 miles per gallon and took 2nd place at the SAE international collegiate competition. The team also won the Best Design Execution Award and the Endurance Award for the most attempts with the highest MPG.

With their high-flying photo and video capabilities, personal hobby drones are more popular than ever.  But how do you ensure that these fun, inexpensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) don’t become a threat to national security? That’s the question a team of 28 BYU electrical and computer engineering students worked on for the US Department of Defense's Perseus III project.