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THE HUMAN FACE OF ENGINEERING
Civil engineering graduate student Amelia Lyons gets help at the
water pump from a Nepalese girl during an Engineers Without Borders
visit to the rural farming community of Namsaling, Nepal.
The CU student chapter is working on a safe drinking water plan for the
community among other projects. During its May-June visit, the team also
helped install a wireless local network to allow a government health
worker to communicate with doctors at a remote hospital, and taught
school children how to design and build LED lights for their classroom.
(Photo/Tony Makepeace) |
Fall 2008 Enrollment Grows
Engineering enrollment increased
this fall to a record high of 4,255 students, including 3,022
undergraduates and 1,233 graduate students (of which 179 are enrolled
online). The total enrollment includes 758 new first-year
undergraduates, 85 new transfer students, and a total increase in the
undergraduate population of 3.7 percent (108 students) over last fall.
The undergraduate enrollment is comprised of 20 percent women and 8 percent
underrepresented minorities, which represents a small gain in diversity
over last year. The graduate enrollment is 21.5 percent women and 4.9
percent underrepresented minorities. >>
More information on enrollment trends and breakdowns by departments
Strategic Plan Looks Ahead to 2020
The college
has completed a new strategic plan, “Engineering 2020: Vision for
Excellence,” which will guide the college through the next decade. The
plan outlines high goals, including continuing growth of the student
body, along with faculty, staff, and research programs; enriching the
educational experience of our students, and increasing the diversity and
excellence of our students, faculty, and staff. For more information,
select
Engineering 2020.
Launch of High Altitude Student Payload
CU aerospace
undergraduates
Grant Fritz,
Kyle Kemble, Ahna Isaak,
and Viliam
Klein
went to New Mexico to support final integration and launch of the
Colorado Space Grant Consortium’s High Altitude Student Payload (HASP)
in September.
The 20-kg payload measured
sky brightness during a 32-hour flight to provide greater evidence that
lighter-than-air astronomical observing platforms are feasible. Images
were sent to the ground in real-time from the 11.8 million-cubic-foot,
zero-pressure balloon, which ascended to a near-space environment of
120,000 feet.
HASP is a NASA program run by the Goddard Space Flight Center.
>>Additional
photos and information
Prospective Student Video
The college has
produced a new video for prospective engineering students, which can be
viewed online through the college website as well as on the popular
website, YouTube. Select
student video to view the five-minute film.
Honors
& Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding
achievements:
Faculty
Ryan Starkey
and Dale
Lawrence of aerospace engineering sciences have
been named Associate Fellows in the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics. They will be honored at a dinner in conjunction with the 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
in Orlando, Fla., in January.
Robert Leben of aerospace engineering
sciences and CCAR has won a $560,000, five-year subcontract on a U.S.
Department of Interior grant to Science Applications International Corp.
to perform the remote sensing component of a study on the
"Dynamics of the Loop Current in U.S. Waters."
Bernard Amadei of
civil, environmental and architectural engineering
delivered the Georgia Institute of Technology Woodruff School of
Mechanical Engineering's Annual Distinguished Lecture in September. He
spoke on "The Role of Engineers in Poverty Reduction: Challenges and
Opportunities."
David DiLaura, who retired last year from
civil, environmental and architectural engineering, was honored by the
department at a Sept. 19 banquet attended by 100 alumni, faculty, and
students.
The following individuals received faculty fellowships this fall:
Ronggui Yang,
mechanical engineering, Sanders Faculty Fellowship
Jerry Qi
and Harold Park,
mechanical engineering, Chair's Faculty Fellowships
John McCartney,
civil, environmental and architectural engineering, Barry Faculty
Fellowship
Staff
Courtney Staufer
of the Dean's
Office received the Employee Recognition
Award for October.
Students
Ryan
Kennedy of computer science and applied mathematics has been
selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship
Foundation. Former astronaut Vance Brand visited campus to present the
award Oct. 1.
Amal Ramachandran Nair of aerospace
engineering sciences won the American Geophysical Union's Outstanding Student Paper Award in Space
Physics and Aeronomy for his presentation of “Inter-hemispheric
comparison of gravity waves observed in PMCs from the CIPS experiment
on board the AIM spacecraft” at the 2008 Joint Assembly in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
New
Faculty & Staff
Welcome to the following new staff joining
the college:
Cheryl Graham,
administrative assistant, chemical and biological engineering
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