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Nov. 2009 CU Engineering News & Events | |||||||
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Environmental Engineering Students Win National Competition | CU & NREL Undertake Study of PHEV in Colorado | Engineering for Developing Communities Offers Study Abroad in Israel | Honors & Awards | New Faculty & Staff | College Calendar | In the News | Fast Facts |
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Environmental Engineering Students Win National Competition
A team of CU environmental engineering students won a national design
competition in which they performed an alternatives assessment and
preliminary design of an upgrade to the Denver Metro Wastewater
Treatment Facility. The students, who completed the project as part of
their capstone design course taught by Angela Bielefeldt, won the
regional design competition last spring, earning the right to compete at
the Water Environment Federation’s 82nd annual technical
conference in Orlando, Fla., in October. Students
Leanne Miller, Rishabh Lyer, John Craven, Brad Short, Jayson Ellis,
and Sean Aronson competed against
eight other teams and brought home top honors, a $2,500 prize, and more
than one job interview. Congratulations to all!
Participants in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) Oct. 21 Energy Symposium look over posters submitted by university and government researchers. CU & NREL Undertake Study of PHEV in Colorado
Faculty in the ECEE and CS departments are undertaking a comprehensive
study of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) as part of Xcel
Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder. The study will employ
wireless sensors, mobile devices having GPS and wireless communication
capabilities, and data servers to evaluate PHEV fuel economy,
electricity consumption and user experiences over a wide range of
driving cycles (urban, highway, mountainous), as well as electric power
grid integration scenarios.
Toyota announced at the Energy Symposium that it will supply 10 Prius PHEVs in early 2010 for the
project, which is being coordinated by RASEI. Members of the interdisciplinary team
include
Dragan Maksimovic, Tim Brown, Dirk
Grunwald, and
Li Shang of CU, and Barbara
Farhar, Tony Markel, and Terry Penney of NREL Engineering for Developing Communities Offers Study Abroad in Israel Students have an opportunity to get hands-on experience in sustainable community planning and development in Israel, thanks to a new study abroad program of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities. Professor Bernard Amadei will lead a three-credit, three-week program in summer 2010, which allows students to work with Israeli students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology on community development projects and take cultural and Hebrew language courses. Students must have a 3.0 GPA, junior standing, and a background in engineering design courses. Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements: Faculty
The following engineering faculty were named inaugural Fellows of the
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), which is a join
institute of CU-Boulder and NREL: Kristi Anseth of chemical and biological engineering has been elected to the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine. She was one of 65 new members announced Oct. 12.
Paul Chinowsky
of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering, helped to
develop the
infrastructure cost models for the World Bank report, “Economics of
Adaptation to Climate Change.” The study is the most in-depth analysis
of the economics of adaptation to climate change to date.
Dirk Grunwald
of computer science is one of the principal investigators on a
multi-institutional grant funded by the National Science Foundation to
develop new, larger-scale prototyping efforts for the Global Environment
for Network Innovations (GENI) virtual laboratory. Students Kristina Wang, a BS/MS student in aerospace engineering, was selected to receive the Collegiate Member Award for outstanding technical achievements and service to the Society of Women Engineers. She is president of the CU-SWE chapter. Bruce Davis, a graduate student in aerospace engineering advised by Mahmoud Hussein, won second place in the student paper competition at the biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise held earlier this year in San Diego. Nick Pedatella, a graduate student in aerospace engineering advised by Kristine Larson, won the student poster competition at the 4th COSMIC Data Users Workshop held in Boulder in October.
Welcome
to the following new faculty and staff joining the college: Lori Walker, Assistant to the Associate Dean for Education Andrew Schmidt, Accounting Technician, ChBE |
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