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Colorado Space Grant Consortium | Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards | CU/Sandia Research Partnership | Honors and Awards | New Faculty and Staff | Engineering Development | College Calendar

Undergraduate students recover their payload after it flew at the edge of space in a BalloonSat -- the technology behind the new C-SMARTS Program.

Colorado Space Grant Consortium
Colorado Space Grant has won a grant from the Colorado Institute of Technology and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education for the Colorado Students and Mentors Applying Research and Technology in Space (C-SMARTS) program.  Chris Koehler is the principle investigator.

The C-SMARTS program will create a new, portable, hands-on, higher education course that will develop qualified and motivated students to actively contribute to the Colorado aerospace industry. Participants in the initial year of the program will include students and faculty from CU-Boulder, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Mesa State College, and Fort Lewis College, along with engineers and scientists from nine Colorado aerospace companies. 
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Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards
The Engineering Advisory Council's DEAA Selection Committee has chosen the following recipients for the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards. The awards will be presented at the Engineering Awards Banquet on April 16, in the following categories:

l Enid Ablowitz - Special
l Lori Clarke (PhD CompSci'76) - Research & Invention
l Gregg Jacobs (AeroEngr'86, PhD'91) - Research & Invention
l Vern Norviel (ChemEngr'81) - Industry & Commerce
l Lucy Sanders (MS CompSci'78) - Industry & Commerce
l Marshall Silver (CivEngr'65) - Government Service
l Stein Sture (CivEngr'71, MS'73, PhD'76) - Education

 Congratulations to all the honorees, and thanks to all those who made nominations or wrote letters of support for the candidates.
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CU/Sandia Research Partnership
On Dec. 17, college and campus leaders celebrated a new Memorandum of Understanding with Sandia National Laboratories, which is expected to result in expanded research collaboration in microsystems technologies and other areas. Dean Rob Davis, Associate Dean Stein Sture, and Vice Chancellor for Research Carol Lynch hosted several visitors from Sandia who visited the college to launch the expanded partnership.

This year, the college received about $700,000 in support from Sandia, including funding for two graduate student fellowships and research projects in several departments. The MOU formalizes the partnership that has been developing over the last three years by detailing plans for research visits, access to facilities, and the handling of intellectual property.
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Honors and Awards
Faculty
Will Medlin of Chemical and Biological Engineering has received an NSF CAREER award of $400,000 over five years for teaching and research, with a focus on applying computational quantum chemistry to engineering problems. For the research portion, his group will use a combination of experiment and theory to study the chemistry and physics of metal -- metal oxide interface structures that are important for catalysis, microelectronic devices, and chemical sensing.

Ross Corotis of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering has been invited by the National Academies to participate in the inaugural visit to Vietnam for the Vietnam Education Foundation, a new organization created by the U.S. Congress to promote closer bilateral relations through scholarships and educational exchange. As a member of the Engineering Team, he will go this month to tour Vietnamese universities and assess teaching and research capacities.

Richard Han of Computer Science has received an IBM Faculty Award for 2003. He is collaborating with IBM on research related to networked software distribution.

Two engineering faculty have been awarded course development grants for 2004 from the Service Learning Office at CU-Boulder. Angela Bielefeldt of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering has been awarded a grant for a senior capstone course in Environmental Engineering Design in which students will work in teams on field projects. Shelly Miller of Mechanical Engineering and George Rivera of Art and Art History have been awarded a grant for a joint project involving students in two courses to produce a collaborative art exhibit in conjunction with community agencies.

Students
Juniper Jairala, Ph.D. student in aerospace engineering, received a Graduate Assistantship in Biosciences from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Initiative for Minority Student Development.

Jeff Parker and Jen Michels, student leads of the new DINO Satellite Mission at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, have won a flight on the KC-135 to test the satellite’s boom deployment experiment called MAGIC. Their flight is scheduled for the week of April 15.
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New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff in the college:

l Dennis Akos, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
l Jaecheol Skin, Research Associate, Center for Aerospace Structures
l Youzhi Li, Prof. Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering
l Vishwish Kulkarni, Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
l Jie Bai, Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering
l Anil Anal, Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering
l Mark Eaton, Manufacturing Specialist, ITLL
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Engineering Development
Many thanks to the following individuals and businesses who recently made gifts to support programs, faculty and students in the college:

Individual Gifts
l David Clair (ChemEngr’58)—support for the Women in Engineering Program
l Phil Anthony—Anthony Photonics Fund (research funds for Robert McLeod, EE)
l Bruce Holland (ElCompEng’73)—Nanotube Research Fund
l Gary and Terie Roubos (ChemEng’58)—Earn-Learn Program
l Klaus and Jean Timmerhaus—Timmerhaus Scholarship Fund
l Herbert Westfall (CivEng’49)—Westfall Scholarship Fund
l Arch Archuleta (ArchEngr’61)—ITLL, MEP, Earn-Learn Program, and Ross Corotis Endowment

Corporate Gifts
l Agilent Technologies—Agilent Technologies Fellowship Fund (funding for 4 fellowships)
l Microsoft—Microsoft Bifrost Project Research and Computer Science Development Center
l StorageTek—StorageTek Optical Research Probe Fund (research funds for Robert McLeod, EE)
l Software Research Assoc.—Center for LifeLong Learning and Design
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