He joined CSU-Pueblo faculty in 2011. Paudel completed his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tribhuvan University in Nepal in 2000. Following his bachelor’s degree, he received his master’s degree in Mechatronics from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, located in South Korea in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2010. Before becoming faculty at CSU-Pueblo, Paudel was a lecturer in the Department of General Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Paudel teaches engineering mechanics, thermodynamics and virtual reality courses at CSU-Pueblo.