CU Engineering Feb. '06 eNotes

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Feb. 2006 CU Engineering News & Events

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ITL Program to Receive CACMA Service Award | CU Engineering Student Attends President's Address
Outreach Project: Distance Education to Peru | Honors and Awards | New Faculty and Staff
College Calendar | In the News | Fast Facts

College Calendar
K.D. WOOD COLLOQUIUM Feb. 10, 9 a.m., ECCR 265, “The Challenges of Autonomous Navigation for the Deep Impact Mission to Comet Tempel 1,” presented by Dr. Daniel G. Kubitschek, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Information: Patti Gassaway, 303-735-4900.

INVENTION TO VENTURE WORKSHOP Feb. 22, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., DLC Bechtel Collaboratory; $15 for students, faculty and staff. Contact Robyn Sandekian at 303-735-6708 for more information or go to www.invention2venture.org/events/
UCBoulder/index.html.

COLLEGEWIDE FACULTY & STAFF MEETING Feb. 24, 3 p.m., DLC Bechtel Collaboratory, followed by a “First Friday” reception in the DLC Atrium from 4 to 5 p.m. Information: Sharon Powers, 303-492-7006.

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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

l White House Invites CU Student to Attend State of the Union Address (story)

l CU-Boulder Invention to Venture Workshop to Focus on Sustainable Technologies (story)
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CU Engineering Fast Facts
The National Science Foundation was CU-Boulder's top federal funding agency in 2005 at $46.7 million for more than 250 new awards, ranking ahead of NASA which provided $44.5 million. The National Science Board, which is the governing body of the National Science Foundation and a major science-policy advising group to the president and Congress, will meet on the Boulder campus on Feb. 10.
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The University of Colorado has a strong institutional commitment to the principles of diversity and takes action to achieve that end. The university does not discriminate in its educational and employment programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, or veteran status.

High school students work on a hands-on engineering projects at the 2005 Success Institute, co-sponsored by ITL, MEP and WIEP.

ITL Program to Receive CACMA Service Award
The Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program directed by Larry Carlson and Jackie Sullivan has been selected to receive a 2005-06 Diversity Service Recognition Award from the CU-Boulder Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs. The $500 award will be presented at the annual Diversity Summit on Feb. 23. ITL was selected for its commitment to creating a more diverse student population at CU-Boulder and for enriching the exposure of K-12 students to engineering, reaching out in particular to students of color, young women, and first-generation college-bound students. For more information about the Diversity Summit, go to www.colorado.edu/cu-diversity/summit.html
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Jeff Lyng and friend Kristin Kerwin of the Department of Energy pose with U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman at the White House.

CU Engineering Student Attends President's Address
Among the special guests invited by the White House to attend the president’s State of the Union Address on Jan. 31 was CU-Boulder graduate student Jeff Lyng of the Building Systems Program in civil, environmental and architectural engineering. Lyng served as project manager for CU’s 2005 Solar Decathlon team and was invited to sit with First Lady Laura Bush during the address to represent young professionals in the energy field.

He talked with Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman before the address, and met President Bush afterward. “I tried to advocate as strongly as I could in a minute, that the common ground is energy security and national security in looking at alternative forms of energy,” Lyng told the Denver Post.

Lyng was previously invited to address the energy subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science. The text of those remarks is available online at www.house.gov/science/hearings/energy05/
November%202/Lyng.pdf
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Outreach Project: Distance Education to Peru
Bernard Amadei of the Engineering for Developing Communities Program and CAETE Director Mario Vidalon have received a grant from the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee to support a multi-year outreach effort, “Using Distance Education to Aid Developing Communities Worldwide.” The project will begin in Peru, where the CU student chapter of Engineers without Borders has been working on water supply and sanitation projects, and where ITP student Patricia Diaz-Ubillus has contacts with the Peruvian telecommunications regulatory agency.

The goal of the project is to link the considerable pool of knowledge available within the university to the vast and varying needs of developing communities using Peru’s existing and underutilized internet café network. Amadei will direct the development of skills-building tutorials appropriate for use with rural villagers, while. Vidalon will direct the technical aspects of broadcasting the information to Peru. Additional faculty will be recruited to supplement the project.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.

Faculty
Todd Murphey of electrical and computer engineering has been recommended for a National Science Foundation CAREER Award funding his proposal, “Planning and Control for Overconstrained Mechanisms.” His project examines the uncertainties of multiple point contact systems, including micro manipulation, vehicles and robotic grasping, with the goal of producing hybrid estimators, motion planning algorithms and control strategies that will work in concert to guarantee performance and stability in an unstructured environment.

Stephanie Bryant of chemical and biological engineering has been selected to receive a Junior Faculty Development Award from the Graduate Council on Research and Creative Work.

James Alleman of interdisciplinary telecommunications was named to the Committee of Experts on Very High Speed Broadband in France, and appointed to the Editorial Board of Communication & Strategies, the journal of IDATE. In addition, the award for the best student paper at the International Telecommunications Society’s Africa-Asia-Australian Regional Conference has been named in his honor.

Dan Frangopol of civil, environmental and architectural engineering was named a Fellow of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Ronggui Yang, who joined the mechanical engineering faculty in January 2006, won the 2005 Goldsmid Award for Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics by a Graduate Student, awarded by the International Thermoelectric Society. Yang also won the Best Paper Award at InterPACK 2005 (the ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems).

Frank Kreith of mechanical engineering was honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the establishment of the Frank Kreith Energy Award to honor an individual for significant contributions to a secure energy future through innovations in conservation and/or renewable energy technology. Contributions may be through research, education, and/or practice, and the initial award will be presented in 2006.

Staff
Bonnee Basso, graduate program administrator for the Engineering Management Program, received the Employee Recognition Award for February.

Students
Spencer Won, a PhD student in construction engineering and management, was awarded the 2005 Design-Build Institute of America's Student Leadership Award. He completed a master’s thesis on life-cycle cost criteria in design-build transportation project RFPs and served as the research assistant for a project developing a design-build procurement guide.

Frank DelRio, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, won the Materials Research Society Silver Medal Graduate Student Award.

Alicia Ortega, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, received the Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health to support her Ph.D. research on “Biodegradable Shape-Memory Polymer Networks for Orthopedic Fixation Devices.”

Jack Elston, a PhD candidate in aerospace engineering sciences, received an Institute of Navigation Scholarship Award.
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New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new staff in the college:

l Chris Caviness, IT professional, CEAE

l Albin Gasiewski, professor, ECE

l Debra Goldberg, assistant professor, CS

l Ronggui Yang, assistant professor, ME
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