The faculty of the Herbst Humanities Program has again challenged the engineering community (faculty, staff and students) to embrace the humanities and submit their best original poetry in a collegewide contest this spring. Categories are: (1) Best overall poem, (2) Most clever ode on a dropping egg, (3) Finest Haiku, (4) Best ode to concrete, and (5) Most insightful or reflective poem. Poems should be submitted to Wayne Ambler by March 31.

Engineering Career Day for Women
The Women in Engineering Program will host its annual Engineering Career Day for Women on March 12. Faculty and staff are invited to bring their high school-aged daughters to explore possible careers in science, technology, engineering and math through informational sessions and lab demonstrations. The free event will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Deadline to register is March 4.  For information, call WIEP at 303-492-0083 or visit http://engineering.colorado.edu/WIEP/careerday.html
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Explore CU Engineering Day
Also on March 12, a new outreach program called Explore CU Engineering Day will be held for students who have been admitted to the college for fall. Admitted students have been invited to tour the college and attend overview sessions on the departments and majors, financial aid and scholarship opportunities. A society fair also will be held with representatives of the student societies available to answer questions. For more information, contact Kristin Germain at Kristin.germain@colorado.edu or visit http://engineering.colorado.edu/prospective/march12.htm
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Library Adds Electronic Resources
With the start of the new year, the university has access to two new electronic resources -- the SPIE Digital Library and the complete INSPEC database back to 1898.  Access to both resources is available from the Chinook catalog.

 With the exception of the Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems, which began publication in 2002, the SPIE Digital Library includes the full text of society's proceedings and its four journals from 1998 forward.  By the end of 2005, the SPIE digital collection should extend back to 1990.

 The INSPEC database, which is available from Engineering Village 2, includes the complete back files of the IEE indexes (Science Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronic Abstracts, and Computer and Control Abstracts) that preceded it.  Please contact the Engineering Library at 492-5396 if you have questions or comments.
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Space Grant Consortium Wins Grants
The Colorado Space Grant Consortium has received two grants from NASA for workforce development projects. The grants, which total $120,000, support the DemoSat and MIMIC programs.

MIMIC is a fairly new, multi-state initiative in which students are designing a mission to Mars. DemoSat is an ongoing high-altitude balloon program created by CSGC Director Chris Koehler involving students at 10 Colorado colleges and universities. The students work with NASA scientists and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Lab and Ames Research Center, as well as faculty from their own institutions to develop their experiments.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.

Programs

The Women in Engineering Program has been selected for recognition by the Chancellor’s Committee on Women. The award is to be presented by Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano at the Campus Diversity Summit on Feb. 10.

Faculty

Scott Palo of aerospace engineering sciences has received an NSF CAREER award, which will fund his project, “Development of a Distributed, Multistatic Meteor Radar System.” 

Ryan Gill of chemical and biological engineering has been selected to receive a K25 Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.  The award, worth approximately $750,000 over five years, complements the recently announced CAREER Award he received from the National Science Foundation. 

Steve George of chemical and biological engineering won the American Chemical Society’s Local Section Award based on his career long excellence in research. The award was presented Jan. 18 at the University Memorial Center, where Steve will give an address on "Fabrication and Properties of Thin Films Grown Using Atomic Layer Deposition Techniques."  

George Born has served as guest editor over the last year for three issues of Marine Geodesy that were dedicated to calibration/validation of the ocean altimeter system on-board the Jason-1 satellite launched jointly by NASA and the French space agency in 2001.  CU aerospace faculty and current or former graduate students appeared as co-authors on 17 of the 58 papers in these volumes.

Staff

Vicki Bain and Lenore Edman of mechanical engineering received the Employee Recognition Award for January.  Vicki is the department accountant and Lenore is the graduate coordinator.

Bernadette Garcia received the Employee Recognition Award from the Colorado Space Grant Program for February. She is the program’s associate director.

Jim Sherman, assistant dean for student services, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Education at Northern Arizona University last fall.

Carol Rowe of the Dean’s Office and staff at University Communications received the Bronze Award for Excellence in Periodicals for CUEngineering 2004 at the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District VI annual conference in Kansas City.

Students

Jeffery Parker, a PhD candidate in aerospace engineering, was co-author of a paper that won the Best Paper Award for the 2004 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference. The paper, titled “Unstable resonance orbits near Earth and their application in planetary missions,” was ranked best out of 115 papers.
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