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Colorado Space Grant Program Hosts BalloonSat Workshop 
The Colorado Space Grant Program hosted more than 50 faculty and students from space grant consortiums throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., for a training workshop June 17-19 on the successful balloon satellite program developed by Chris Koehler at CU-Boulder.

CU students and faculty led participants in the design and construction of miniature satellites during the three-day workshop. A team from Montana State University led a portion of the training focused on the high-altitude balloon. The satellites, which were designed to reach an altitude of over 30 km, were launched June 19 from eastern Colorado and tracked using GPS receivers.

This is the third workshop hosted by CSGC since June 2002. Since then, over 150 faculty have participated, and more than 60 ballooning programs have started. There are plans to hold a fourth workshop next summer. For more information, visit https://spacegrant.colorado.edu/
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Summer K-12 Outreach Includes Upward Bound, Summer Bridge, Girls Embrace Technology, and Success Institute
June and July are busy months for college outreach to K-12 students, including many diverse communities who are underrepresented in engineering. The following student programs are under way this month in the Engineering Center:

l The college’s first outreach program for Native American high school students, administered in collaboration with Upward Bound, runs June 11 to July 23. The six-week program includes two classes: a balloon satellite workshop for first- and second-year students taught by Chris Koehler of the Space Grant Program and an open-ended design workshop taught by Daria Kotys-Schwartz of ITLL. More than 50 students are involved in the two workshops; their work will be showcased at a Design Expo on July 23, 9-11 a.m. in the Engineering Lobby.

l MEP’s annual Summer Bridge Program runs from June 16 to July 23. Designed to expose incoming students to the rigors and materials related to their freshman year in engineering, the program includes a college preparatory course along with mini-courses in calculus, chemistry, physics, computing, and writing. The students also take a projects course related to bioengineering and make weekly visits to area companies to explore the range of engineering careers. The 23 students participating in Summer Bridge will join Upward Bound students in the end-of-program Design Expo July 23, 9-11 a.m. in the Engineering Lobby.

l The ITLL’s Girls Embrace Technology Program runs June 21 to July 29. Nearly three-dozen high-school women are involved in the six-week internship, which is now in its third year. Taught by Clayton Lewis of computer science, the program creates teams of students who work together to develop educational multi-media software, while exploring their potential for engineering and technology careers. A final presentation of the students’ work is scheduled for July 29, 9-11 a.m. in the ITLL’s Bechtel Active Learning Center.

l The ITLL and MEP are collaborating again in offering the Success Institute, which will bring 74 underrepresented multicultural and first-generation high school students to the college for a one-week institute July 12-16. Ken Gall and Larry Carlson of mechanical engineering will teach the 11^th and 12th grade students a stereo speaker design-build project; while 9^th and 10th grade students will conduct various modules related to energy production and renewable energy.  Parents will come to the college on Friday afternoon for parent workshops, student presentations, and a closing barbeque cookout.
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Facilities Update:  CADSWES Moves Off Campus, MEP & WIEP to Relocate
The Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) has completed its move to 1777 Exposition Drive, located north of Arapahoe Avenue and the old Exabyte building. This move has expanded the center’s space by 75 percent and includes a room for the group’s computer-based training. Contact information (phone, e-mail, and campus mail) remains the same. A map showing the new location—which has free visitor parking—is available at http://cadswes.colorado.edu/2004/move/1777_Exposition_Drive.html

The center’s former offices in the civil engineering wing are now being remodeled for use by the Women in Engineering and Multicultural Engineering Programs and Career Services. MEP and WIEP will move into the ECCE 100 suite before the start of the fall semester, in turn opening up additional space for the Computer Science Department.

Other construction work under way in the Engineering Center this summer includes expansion of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department into the space previously occupied by ITS Unix Operations, main hallway floor repairs, and expansion of the wireless network to provide wireless access throughout the Engineering Center.
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Honors and Awards
Faculty
Alan Weimer and Steven George of chemical and biological engineering, along with researchers Karen Buechler and John Ferguson and the spin-off company, ALD NanoSolutions, have had one of their ideas selected by R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the world marketplace over the past year. Their technology, called Particle-ALD, controls surface chemistry at the nano-scale, allowing nano-thick films to be chemically bonded to individual primary substrate particle surfaces. The awards, determined by R&D editors and staff working with 70 outside experts, will be presented at a banquet in Chicago on Oct. 14.

David Klaus of aerospace engineering sciences has received the Educator of the Year Award from the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. This award recognizes the bioastronautics curriculum and research group he has established since joining the aerospace faculty.

Frank Kreith, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, has been elected by the ASME Board of Governors as an Honorary Member of the ASME International "for lifelong contributions to the mechanical engineering profession as teacher all over the world, author of significant textbooks, researcher in heat transfer and solar energy, and consultant to state governments on waste management, energy conservation, and transportation." Frank will be recognized at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress on Nov. 17 in Anaheim, Calif.

Amer Diwan of computer science has received the IBM Faculty Partnership Award for the third year in a row. This highly competitive award sponsored by IBM Research for junior faculty includes $40,000 to support his research in vertical profiling.

Johannes Henkel and Amer Diwan of computer science won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering in Edinburgh, Scotland, for their paper, "A Tool for Writing and Debugging Algebraic Specifications."

Staff
Jane Wang, financial coordinator for CADSWES, received the Employee Recognition Award for May.

Pat Roll, assistant to the director of CCAR, received the Employee Recognition Award for June.