College Accepted to Join CASEE
The College of Engineering and Applied Science has been accepted to join the prestigious Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education as a research affiliate. A center with the National Academy of Engineering, CASEE brings together the most-recognized programs in engineering education throughout the country.

CU-Boulder’s CASEE membership puts us on equal footing in the education research arena with the leaders and pioneers of engineering education. Our acceptance recognizes the significant educational research work that has been accomplished by our faculty, and it lends prestige and cohesiveness to our expanding passion to provide an excellent engineering education to all students, whatever their age.

Faculty working on any research in this area are asked to contact ITL Program Co-director Derek Reamon.

Space Grant Students Win KC-135 Flight
A team of Colorado Space Grant Consortium students from CU-Boulder and the University of Northern Colorado has won a flight in NASA’s KC-135 Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.  The students are working on the DANDE (Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer) satellite mission, which is part of the University Nanosat 5 Program sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and organized by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The program is a student competition among 11 universities to design, integrate, and fly a 50-kg satellite as a secondary payload on a government mission.  (The artist's rendering at left depicts DANDE after separation from the launch vehicle.)

The COSGC team will travel to Johnson Space Center in April to test the DANDE separation system aboard the KC-135. Given the constraints of the science objectives and AFRL guidelines, the DANDE student team, with help from engineers at Starsys Research, has designed a unique separation system which will be activated on orbit during the commissioning phase of the mission. This allows the spacecraft to be spherical, which is required to characterize its cross-sectional area and coefficient of drag. The goal is to thoroughly test the separation system in the microgravity environment to demonstrate and improve the reliability of the design.
>>Visit the DANDE website for more information.

Honors & Awards
Congratulations to the following on their outstanding achievements:

Faculty
Bernard Amadei of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Steven Nerem and Jeffrey Forbes of aerospace engineering sciences were elected fellows of the American Geophysical Union.

Alan Greenberg of mechanical engineering and Ryan Gill of chemical and biological engineering received Faculty Fellowships for 2008 from the Council on Research and Creative Work.

The CU Technology Transfer Office presented the following awards:
l Stephanie Bryant of chemical and biological engineering was named CU-Boulder New Inventor of the Year;
l Douglas Gin of chemical and biological engineering was named Inventor of the Year; and
l BaroFold Inc., a company co-founded by Ted Randolph of chemical and biological engineering. was named Bioscience Company of the Year.

Staff
Greg Potts of mechanical engineering was awarded the Employee Recognition Award for February.

Carolyn Hard of the Dean’s Office was recognized by the Boulder Campus Staff Council and Chancellor Peterson for completing 20 years of continuous service to CU.

New Faculty & Staff
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff:
Daniel Scheeres, professor, AES
Angela Stauffer, admin assistant, ChBE
Kimberly Fletcher, admin assistant, ECE
Jeffrey Sczechowski, research opportunities coordinator, Dean’s Office

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