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College Calendar
HOLIDAY
CELEBRATION
Friday, Dec. 8, 5-6:55 p.m., holiday party for engineering faculty,
staff and donors, including presentation of the college’s Corporate
Advocate Award in the Engineering Lobby; call 492-7006 for
information.
ITL DESIGN EXPO
Sat.,
Dec. 9, 1-3 p.m., end-of-semester demonstration of engineering
student projects, ITL Laboratory; call 492-7222 or go to
http://itll.colorado.edu/ITLL
/index.cfm?fuseaction=DesignExpo.
ECE CAPSTONE EXPO Thursday, Dec. 14, 9 a.m.-noon, semi-annual
demonstration of senior capstone projects in electrical and computer
engineering; call 492-7327 for information.
ENGINEERING
RECOGNITION CEREMONY Thursday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.,
collegewide ceremony to recognize fall 2006 graduates at
Macky Auditorium; call 492-5071 for information.
SPRING SEMESTER
BEGINS
Tuesday, Jan. 16.
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://engineering.colorado.edu/news/
current_news.htm
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New Outsourcing Courses Gives CU-Boulder Students Hands-On
Experience with Trend (story)
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Three CU-Boulder Faculty Members Named Distinguished Professors
(story)
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CU-Boulder Experiments on Space Station to Involve K-12 Students
From Around the World
(story)
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Solar
iPod Charger, Avalanche Backpack Among CU Student Inventions to be
Demonstrated at ITL Design Expo
(story)
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University
of Colorado at Boulder Senior Instructor to Receive AIAA Award
(story)
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Three
CU-Boulder Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows for 2006
(story)
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CU Engineering Fast
Facts
The FIRST Lego League science and technology state tournament will
be held at CU-Boulder’s Balch Fieldhouse Dec. 9, with 72 teams of
students ages 9 to 14 expected to attend. This year’s competition
will focus on nanotechnology and is being coordinated by Jenny
Golder, a Lockheed Martin software engineer and CU-Boulder graduate
student. Winners of the Colorado competition will compete at the
world festival in Atlanta, April 12-14.
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Assistant Professor Wei Tan of
mechanical engineering and pediatric cardiology demonstrates the confocal
laser scanning microscope at the grand opening of the Nanomaterials
Characterization Facility.
Nanomaterials Lab Opens in
DLC
More than 240 people, including 100 from industry and government labs,
attended the opening of the Nanomaterials Characterization Facility in the
Discovery Learning Center on Nov. 16. Participants saw live
demonstrations of five pieces of high-tech equipment, including a
low-vacuum scanning electron microscope, which is used for high-resolution
imaging of biological and insulating materials, and a confocal laser
scanning microscope, which can be used to optically section a sample in
order to assemble a highly accurate three-dimensional reconstruction.
The facility, directed by Professor Y.C. Lee, will support
collaboration among business, government, and academic researchers
involved in nanotechnology development throughout the area. Lee also
directs the new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Center
on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano-Electromechanical
Transducers (iMINT), which will be a major user of the equipment. iMINT
expects to receive federal grants totaling more than $10 million over the
next six years for research on integrating nano devices with micro
devices.
The new
facility has been funded with $1.6 million in federal earmarks, $1.3
million in university matching funds, and $700,000 from various equipment
grants awarded to faculty in mechanical engineering. Additional funds are
being sought to purchase more equipment. For more information, visit
http://www.colorado.edu/nanoscience.
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NCIIA Grant Expands Service
Learning
Students taking the senior-level Environmental Engineering Design course
this year are helping communities in Sonora, Mexico, as well as Colorado’s
San Luis Valley and eastern plains find solutions to their environmental
problems. Projects include redesigning a wastewater treatment system to
eliminate contamination, assisting a goat dairy in reducing or eliminating
its waste stream, and creating a process to treat and use the byproducts
of bio-diesel production.
The
capstone design class has completed several service learning projects
since 2001, but a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors &
Innovators Alliance is significantly expanding partnerships to include
developing communities throughout the world. The grant supported the
travel of Professor Angela Bielefeldt and eight students to visit
Pesqueira, Mexico, where they met with the mayor and representatives of
the Department of Social Development in Mexico and the community. Twelve
CU-Boulder students are now re-designing Pesqueira’s wastewater treatment
system.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations
to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.
Faculty
Kristi Anseth
of chemical and biological engineering was named a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Christopher Bowman
of chemical and biological engineering is part of a team selected
to
receive the Polymeric Materials Science and Education Cooperative Research
Award from the American Chemical Society. The award will be presented in
March at the ACS Meeting in Chicago.
Tad Pfeffer
of civil,
environmental, and architectural engineering and
Mahesh Varanasi
of electrical and computer engineering received faculty fellowships for
2007-08 from CU-Boulder’s Council on Research and Creative Work.
Jean Hertzberg
of mechanical engineering was elected to the executive committee of the
Fluids Division of the American Physical Society.
Jana Milford
of mechanical engineering was appointed to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and the National Academy of
Engineering’s Committee on Energy Futures and Air Pollution in China and
the United States.
Doug Gin
of
chemical and biological engineering was selected to receive the Local
Section Award from the American Chemical Society.
Students
Luis Hakim,
a PhD student in chemical and biological engineering, won first prize at
the Particle Technology Forum Poster Competition during the 2006 Annual
AIChE Meeting held in November in San Francisco. His work was titled,
"Modification of Interparticle Forces of Nanoparticles Using Atomic Layer
Deposition."
The
following students were selected to be the college’s outstanding graduates
for December 2006 and will be recognized at the Engineering Recognition
Ceremony on Dec. 21:
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Scott
Williams
of computer
science - Outstanding Graduate (overall)
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Jenna
Dancy
of
mechanical engineering - Academic Achievement Award
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Robert
Davis
of mechanical engineering and engineering physics -
Outstanding Graduate for Research
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Thomas
Bozic
of the BS/MS program in electrical engineering -
Outstanding Graduate for Service
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