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BioServe Launch | Steam Engine Exhibit | New College Web Site | Honors and Awards |
New Faculty and Staff | Engineering Development | College Calendar | In the News |

BioServe Launch  

BioServe Space Technologies launched its first payload aboard a Russian Progress rocket (13P mission) to the International Space Station in late January. It is the first payload that BioServe has launched on a Russian vehicle, although the center sent some experiments via the space shuttle to Mir. The Group Activation Packs Yeast Experiment, which is part of NASA’s biotechnology cell science research, was subsequently activated on the ISS.

BioServe also continues to support various other investigators’ experiments (going up on Russian launches or using materials existing on ISS) with one of its thermal control lockers that has been stranded on the space station since October 2002 since it requires a shuttle for return. For a summary page of BioServe flight activities, go to www.colorado.edu/engineering/BioServe/missions.html
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Steam Engine Exhibit  

Don Hillier speaks to guests, faculty, and staff at the festivities celebrating the new ITLL Steam Engine Exhibit.

The ITLL welcomed a new addition to its hands-on, engineering outreach displays as part of the First Friday celebration, Feb. 6. The Steam Engine Exhibit displays a series of fully functional, hand-tooled model steam engines by the exhibit creator, Don Hillier. Guests, faculty, and staff celebrated the gift after a few words from Hillier and a presentation of a thank you plaque by Associate Dean for Education John Bennett. Enjoy the exhibit on  level one of the ITLL overlooking the main laboratory plaza; hands-on controls are coming soon.
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New College Web Site
The College of Engineering and Applied Science has a newly designed and updated Web site, www.colorado.edu/engineering. The site includes a new category for Faculty and Staff, as well as expanded content for Prospective Students, Current Students, K-12 Students and Teachers, and other college constituents.  The Web site is now being hosted on the Dean’s Office web server. Department and program webmasters are encouraged to update any links to college Web pages to make sure they still work. Questions and comments may be directed to carol.rowe@colorado.edu
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Honors and Awards
Programs
The Multicultural Engineering Program has been selected to receive a Diversity Service Recognition Award from the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs.  The awards ceremony will be held on Feb. 27 at the Ninth Annual Campus Diversity Summit, "Revitalizing Community: From Hope to Action" at the UMC Ballroom.

Faculty
Regan Zane of Electrical and Computer Engineering has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The award, which provides $400,000 over four years for teaching and research, will support the development of innovations in energy-efficient lighting systems through advanced modeling, control algorithm research, and hardware realization. The educational portion of the grant will focus on development of the first EE curriculum in the United States dedicated to energy-efficient lighting systems.

Roger “Buzz” King of Computer Science has been invited by the Smithsonian to serve as a founder of the Smithsonian's Encyclopedia of Life--a project that is expected to be of the same magnitude and importance as the Human Genome Project. The goal is to build a Web portal that centralizes access to information on all known species of the planet. There will be about 25 leading scientists and technologists in the group.

Dan Frangopol of CEAE has been named editor in chief of a new journal called Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance, published by the Taylor & Francis Group. The first issue is scheduled for October 2004.

Jim Maslanik of Aerospace Engineering and the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR) has won a new $1 million grant from NASA for “Investigations of Sea Ice State Using Multisensor Data, Time History, and Lagrangian Tracking.”

Staff
Francesca Iovine, who serves as assistant to the research group on artificial intelligence in Computer Science, received the Employee Recognition Award for December.

Gloria Makarevich, administrative assistant/receptionist in the Dean’s Office, received the Employee Recognition Award for January.

Mike Elliott, laboratory coordinator for the ITLL, received the Employee Recognition Award for February.

Engineering Advisory Council
Kristy Schloss, EAC member and President/CEO of Schloss Engineered Equipment, Inc., has been appointed director of the Denver Branch Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
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New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff in the college:
l Terry Mayes, Director of Academic Programs and Assessment, Dean's Office
l Anne McCarthy, IT Professional, Dean’s Office
l Jessica Doubrava, Accounting Tech, Electrical & Computer Engineering
l Gyeony Kim, Research Associate, Center for Aerospace Structures
l Francois Courty, Research Associate, Center for Aerospace Structures
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Engineering Development
The college wishes to thank the following individuals and businesses who recently made significant gifts to support programs, faculty, and students in the college:

Individual Gifts
l Gary Anderson (MechEngr ’69), Earn-Learn Apprenticeship Program
l Don Mackison (AES faculty), Computer Aided Control System Lab
l David Fischer (ElecEngr ’76, College of Engineering and Applied Science
l Maurice Mortenson (CivEngr ’58), Mortenson Endowment for Engineering
l KC Park (AES faculty), Aerospace Structures Center

 Corporate and Foundation Gifts
l Louis and Harold Price Foundation, Herbst Humanities Program
l Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Design Build Fly Fund
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