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College Calendar
ENGINEERING DAYS
April
11-15; sponsored by the University of Colorado Engineering Council.
Events will include the annual Theta Tau Egg Drop on Thursday at 1
p.m. and the SGT Vertical Takeoff Challenge Friday at 2 p.m. on the
business field.
CHBE ALUMNI
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
April 15-16, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., department open house, presentations
in the DLC Bechtel Collaboratory, and centennial exhibit in the
Engineering Lobby, Connections Gallery.
MERVYN YOUNG
MEMORIAL LECTURE
“Impact of Human Genome Research: Present and Future” by David
Haussler (PhD CompSci’81) and Eugene Myers Jr. (PhD CompSci’82);
April 22, 3:15-4:50 p.m., Ramaley C250.
EAC/RDC MEETING
AND ENGINEERING AWARDS BANQUET
April 22, all-day meeting in the DLC Bechtel Collaboratory followed
by 6:30 p.m. banquet and presentation of the 2005 Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Awards at the Millennium Hotel. Dinner tickets,
$30. Information and RSVPs: Emily Muller at 303-492-7899 or
Emily.Muller@cufund.org
ITLL SPRING
DESIGN EXPO
April 23, 1-3 p.m., end-of-semester exhibit and demonstration of
engineering student design projects in the Integrated Teaching and
Learning Laboratory. Information: 303-492-7222.
For more information about
college events, visit
http://engineering.colorado.edu/
EventCalendar/Calendar.aspx
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In the
News
Following is a list of recent press releases pertaining to the college. Click each
[story]
link to read the full news release, or visit
http://ecadw.colorado.edu/engineering/
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CU-Boulder Engineering Days Features Egg Drop, Rocket Launch,
MacGyver Contest
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CU-Boulder Students Solve Tollbooth Question to Place Among Top
Winners in Math Modeling Competition
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Altered Landscapes Photo Exhibit by CU-Boulder Prof Opens at NCAR
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CU-Boulder Fares Well in Annual
U.S. News Grad School Rankings
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CU’s Winning Solar Decathlon Team Develops New ‘Petroleum
Alternative’ Building System
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CU Engineering Fast
Facts
A list
of the 20 fastest
growing professional jobs, published by Fortune magazine in March,
included the following jobs along with their projected increases
from 2002 to 2012:
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Environmental engineers, 54.3 percent
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Network systems and datacom analysts, 41.9
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Personal financial advisors, 36.3
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Database administrators, 33.1
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Software engineers, 27.8
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Emergency management specialists, 27.8
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Biomedical engineers, 27.8
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PR
specialists, 27.8
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Computer and infosystems managers, 25.6
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Comp,
benefits, and job analysts, 25.6
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Systems analysts, 24.9
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Network and systems administrators, 24.9
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Training and development specialists, 22.3
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Medical scientists, 22.1
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Marketing and sales managers, 21.3
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Computer specialists, 20.8
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Media and communications specialists, 20.6
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Counselors, social workers, 20.4
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Lawyers, 20.2
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CU Students Take First in
Concrete Canoe Race
Seventeen civil, environmental, and architectural engineering students
participated in the 2005 ASCE Rocky Mountain Regional Student Conference
in Salt Lake City April 7 and 8, and brought home first-place in the men’s
concrete canoe race—a feat that hasn’t been achieved since 1983.
A total of 240 students from 18 universities attended the conference
and participated in a variety of events, including technical and
non-technical paper presentations, design competitions, steel bridge
design and building competitions, as well as the traditional concrete
canoe races, which were held in frigid waters with intermittent snow
flurries on a small lake south of Salt Lake City.
Besides entering the canoe in the race, the competition includes other
challenges such as actually building a concrete canoe, transporting it
without cracking, and getting it into the water safely. “As a material,
concrete is not able to sustain significant tensile stresses, which makes
its design and construction a major challenge,” says associate dean and
faculty advisor to the team Stein Sture.
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Graduate Program Rank Well in
U.S. News
U.S. News &
World Report released its annual graduate school rankings on April 1. The
College of Engineering and Applied Science was ranked 33rd among the top
engineering schools in the nation. Specialty programs rankings include:
Aerospace (13), Chemical (19), Civil (20), Electrical Engineering (29),
Computer Engineering (35), and Mechanical Engineering (41). The magazine
did not rank computer science programs this year.
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Technology Transfer News
CU
announced recently that it has optioned two technologies to CLP
Microtechnologies, a CU start-up specializing in the microfabrication of
polymeric devices with diverse chemical, electrical and mechanical
properties. Chris Bowman and colleagues in chemical and biological
engineering developed the technologies, which will increase CLP’s ability
to design and fabricate small, inexpensive devices for diverse
applications.
BaroFold, a CU start-up, contributed a Bioprocessing Tutorial to the Feb.
15 issue of Genetic Engineering News. The tutorial describes how BaroFold
implements its proprietary technology for high pressure protein
refolding. The Boulder company provides expertise and research capacity
for cost-effective treatment of proteins enabling therapeutic, vaccine and
diagnostic applications. The high-pressure refolding technology was
developed by John Carpenter and Theodore Randolph of CU’s Center for
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations
to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.
Faculty
Dan Frangopol
of CEAE will be awarded the 2005 Nathan M. Newmark Medal by the American
Society of Civil Engineers. The award is made each year to an ASCE member
who has helped substantially to strengthen the scientific base of
structural engineering through contributions in structural mechanics.
Dale Lawrence
of AES, Lucy Pao
of ECE, and AES graduate student
Sutha Aphanuphong
won the Best Paper Award at the World Haptics Conference in Pisa, Italy in
March for their paper, “Bow Spring/Tendon Actuation for Low Cost Haptic
Interfaces.” The award included a cash prize of 1,000 Euros.
Five
engineering faculty have been selected to receive awards from the Boulder
Faculty Assembly on April 19.
Michael Eisenberg
of computer science will receive the BFA award for Excellence in Teaching,
David Clough
of chemical and biological engineering and
David Kassoy
of mechanical engineering will receive the BFA Excellence in Service
award, and Andrzej
Ehrenfeucht
of computer
science and Alan Weimer
of
chemical and biological engineering will receive the BFA Excellence in
Research award.
Staff
Sandy Spahn,
coordinator of the MAST Center in chemical and biological engineering,
received the Employee Recognition Award for April.
Students
Ashley Moore,
who is double majoring in applied mathematics and aerospace engineering,
has been selected to receive the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship next
year. She is one of three CU-Boulder students chosen to receive the
scholarship, worth $7,500.
Applied mathematics majors
Brad Klingenberg and
Pascal Getreuer, along with math and physics major
Brian Camley, won a place among the "Outstanding Winners" in the prestigious
Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the Consortium for
Mathematics and its Applications. The team, which has won Outstanding in
the contest two years in a row, this year devised a solution to a
real-world problem in congested cities -- how many tollbooths does it take
to minimize lines and avoid traffic jams? (See
http://www.colorado.edu/news
/releases/2005/157.html for more information.)
Two
CU students won the top prizes at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium’s
Undergraduate Student Space Research Symposium, held in conjunction with
the National Space Symposium in
Colorado Springs
this month. Mike
Seibert
was the first-place winner for his paper, “Design of a Piloted Spacecraft
to Bridge the Gap between the Space Shuttle and the Crew Exploration
Vehicle”, and
Josh Stamps
was
second-place winner for his paper “MaCH SR1.” A total of 19 papers were
submitted by students at CU, CSU, USAFA, Mesa State College, UCCS, CSU-Pueblo,
and the Colorado School of Mines.
Applied mathematics students
Alejandro Cantarero
(double major in computer science),
Moorea
Brega,
and Maribeth
Bleymaier
have received graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
Heather Avens
of chemical and biological engineering also has received a National
Science Foundation graduate fellowship starting next year.
Idalis Villanueva
of chemical and biological engineering was selected to receive the
Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship from NASA, which provides a
full stipend and tuition. Nationally, only 20 of these fellows are
selected annually.
Robert Sebra
of chemical and biological engineering was selected to receive the
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award in “recognition of
outstanding performance in the conduct of research.” This award is the
highest student recognition given by the MRS.
Nick Anderson,
Andrew Campbell
and
Laurren Kanner
of
aerospace engineering won first place in the team paper category at the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V student paper
conference in Wichita Kansas, for their paper, “Investigation of a
Castable Ceramic Nozzle in a Mid-Powered Rocket Application.”
A mechanical
engineering senior design team won a competition to design and build an
improved sit-ski for disabled skiers. The competition, called the ASSET
Challenge, was held at Winter Park in March. Student team members were
Miles Wheeler,
Andrew Hytjan,
Kurt Danielson,
Brian Neesan,
and Matthew
Pitman.
Their advisor is
Mel Branch.
Alumni
Mel Clark
has been selected to receive the CU Alumni Association’s George Norlin
Award, to presented at spring commencement.
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New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff members:
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Michael
Prpich, accounting tech III, in aerospace engineering sciences
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Engineering Development
The CU
Foundation has hired a new director of engineering development. John
Mabley will bring about 25 years of experience in development and
advancement of higher education and other nonprofits in
Canada. Most
recently, he has been at Florida State University to complete a PhD in
higher education policy. He will start in his new position at the
beginning of May, although he expects to make a visit to Colorado to
attend our April 22 EAC/RDC meeting.
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