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College Calendar
K.D. WOOD
COLLOQUIUM
Wed., Feb. 21, Noon-1 p.m., Discovery Learning Center; "Research and
Engineering Challenges for STS-114 and Return to Flight," Dr.
Charles Camarda, NASA astronaut and deputy director for advanced
projects for the NASA Engineering and Safety Center; sponsored by
the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.
MERVYN YOUNG
MEMORIAL LECTURE
Thur.,
Feb. 22, 3:30-4:30 p.m., ECCR 265, “Learning to Analyze Sequences,”
Dr. Fernando Pereira, University of Pennsylvania; sponsored by the
Department of Computer Science.
DISCOVER
ENGINEERING DAY Fri., Feb. 23, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,
Discovery Learning Center, outreach event for female high school
students to learn more about careers in math, science, engineering,
and technology, sponsored by the Women in Engineering Program. For
more information visit
Discover
Engineering.
FIRST FRIDAY
Fri.,
March. 2, 4-5 p.m., Discovery Learning Center; monthly reception
highlighting faculty and staff achievements, hosted by applied math.
COLLEGEWIDE
ADVISING FAIR
Tue., March 6, 2-5 p.m.;
undergraduate advising fair with programs held in each of the
departments.
For more information about
college events, visit
Events Calendar.
In the
News
Following is a list of recent press releases pertaining to the college. Click each
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link to read the full news release, or visit
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Aerospace Faculty to Share Interest in Flight with Next Generation
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Faculty Member Receives Top Award for Advising
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Student Space Team Awarded Contract to Build Satellite
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Prof Wins Energy Grant to Improve Gasification System
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Alum Steve Swanson Set for Space Shuttle Launch March 17
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CU Engineering Fast
Facts
The
following departments were among nine CU-Boulder doctoral programs
ranked high in a faculty productivity index featured in the Jan. 12
issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education: chemical engineering
(8), biomedical engineering (9), civil and environmental engineering
(9), and aeronautical and aerospace engineering (10).
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Mission Specialists Patrick
Forrester (left) and Steve Swanson (right) examine the Shuttle Atlantis in
the Orbiter Processing Facility in December. Swanson is set to become
CU-Boulder’s 17th alumnus to fly in space. (Photo/ NASA)
Seventeenth CU-Boulder Alumnus to Fly in Space
Steve Swanson is set to become CU-Boulder’s 17th alumni astronaut to
fly in space next month. Swanson is scheduled for a March 17 launch aboard
the Shuttle Atlantis. He will conduct a spacewalk and operate the
International Space Station’s robotic arms during the mission. The crew
will deliver a third set of huge solar arrays, batteries, and associated
electronics to the station, setting the stage for additional international
laboratories to be added later this year.
Swanson
was born in Syracuse, New York and he grew up in Steamboat Springs. He
received his bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from CU-Boulder in
1983.
He also has a master’s degree in computer systems from Florida
Atlantic University and a PhD in computer science from Texas A&M. He was
selected as an astronaut candidate in 1998. A list of CU-Boulder’s other
alumni astronauts can be found at
CU Astronauts.
CU to Participate in Nanosat
Competition
The Colorado
Space Grant Consortium, in collaboration with the Department of Aerospace
Engineering Sciences, Air Force Space Command, and NOAA, has won an award
from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to design and construct a
satellite in the University Nanosat Competition. COSGC Director Chris
Koehler will be the primary investigator on the Distributed Atmospheric
Neutral Density Explorer (DANDE) mission, which will bring together
faculty and students from several departments to design and build a small
satellite to study variations in Earth's atmosphere and its effects on
spacecraft. The competition involves 11 universities, which each will
receive $110,000 over two years to build a unique spacecraft and compete
for a launch in 2009.
Honors and Awards
Congratulations
to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.
Faculty
Olgica Milenkovic
of electrical and computer engineering has been selected to receive an
NSF CAREER Award and a DARPA Young Faculty Award. She will combine her
expertise in bioinformatics and signal processing to develop a novel
architecture for DNA microarrays and work on problems related to
constrained and error control coding issues in bioinformatics.
Jerry Qi
of mechanical engineering has been selected to receive an NSF CAREER Award
to advance the understanding of the multiphysical behavior of soft
functional materials and to develop corresponding modeling tools that can
be used in design to realize novel applications of these materials.
Lucy Pao
of
electrical and computer engineering gave a plenary lecture on "Control of
Flexible Structures: From Large Space Structures to Disk Drive Read/Write
Arms" at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in San Diego in
December. There were over 1,200 registered attendees at the conference.
Ted Randolph
of
chemical and biological engineering,
along with John Carpenter and their research groups, were recognized with
the Ebert Award for their outstanding paper in the Journal of
Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award was given for the best manuscript
addressing a medicinal substance in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
within the last year.
Bill
Waite
of
electrical and computer engineering coauthored a new book, “Generating
Software from Specifications,” with Uwe Kastens and Anthony Sloane. The
book was published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers of Massachusetts.
Staff
Employee
Recognition Awards were awarded to
Valerie Matthews
of electrical and computer engineering (for December),
Yvonne Reall
of
mechanical engineering (January), and
Megan Marquez
of interdisciplinary telecommunications (February).
Students
Ryan Kobrick,
graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences, received an AIAA
Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award of $10,000 to continue
his work with BioServe Space Technologies.
Eric Vinande,
graduate student in aerospace engineering sciences, won the annual
Institute of Navigation Rocky Mountain Section scholarship. The award of
$2,500 will further his research with the Colorado Center for
Astrodynamics Research.
Maggie Tripodi
of
chemical and biological engineering has been selected to receive the
Outstanding Research Award in the undergraduate category from the Society
for Biomaterials.
Danielle Benoit
of
chemical and biological engineering has been selected to receive the
Outstanding Research Award in the graduate category from the Society for
Biomaterials.
Camille Dodson,
a senior in computer science, was recently selected a recipient of the
2007 Game Developers Conference Student Scholarship. The conference will
be held in San Francisco in March.
Revi Sterling,
a graduate student in the ATLAS program, has been named a Microsoft
Research Fellow. The two-year fellowships, which recognize outstanding PhD
students in computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics,
were awarded to 12 recipients in 2007.
New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to
the following new faculty and staff in the college:
Art Dawson,
Director of Industry Partnerships, a new part-time position in the
Dean’s Office
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