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College Calendar
HIGH SCHOOL HONORS
INSTITUTE
July 24-27, four-day campus residential program introducing
engineering to high school juniors and seniors. Information:
http://engineering.colorado.
edu/hshi/
NEW STUDENT AND
FAMILY ORIENTATION
Aug. 17-19, mandatory program for new undergraduates entering the
College of Engineering and Applied Science; for a complete schedule
of activities, go to
http://engineering.colorado.edu/
prospective/057orientschedule.pdf
FALL CLASSES
Begin Aug. 22
For more information about
college events, visit
http://engineering.colorado.edu/
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
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Metro
Area High School Students Build ‘Mars Rovers’ as Part of CU-Boulder
Program [story]
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Five
NASA Earth Science Fellowships Awarded to CU-Boulder, Tops in Nation [story]
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CU-Boulder Student to Receive Peace Corps’ Franklin H. Williams
Award [story]
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CU-Boulder Engineering Professor Wins Norm Augustine Award [story]
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CU Engineering Fast
Facts
NASA
awarded graduate fellowships for earth system science studies to
five CU-Boulder students in 2005, the most awarded to any university
in the nation. A total of 65 fellowships were awarded to students at
41 universities.
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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
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MEP Co-director Anthea
Johnson-Rooen, at top right, visits with Success Institute students
brainstorming plans for their design project.
College Programs Stay Busy with
K-12 Outreach
SUCCESS INSTITUTE
Twenty-seven 11th and 12th graders
from the Denver metro area designed and built Mars rovers during the
weeklong Success Institute held at the Integrated Teaching & Learning
Laboratory last week. Co-hosted by MEP, WIEP, and ITLL, the Success
Institute is now in its eighth year of helping to inspire underrepresented
and
first-generation students to pursue their interests in
the field of engineering. Additional programs for ninth and 10th grade
students are being held at the Denver School for Science & Technology this
week, with students tackling such design/build projects as smart houses
and a solar town.
UPWARD BOUND
The college also is sponsoring 20 Native
American high school students from across the country who have come to
CU-Boulder to take summer courses, get a feel for college life, and learn
about engineering. Some of these students are building satellites through
Colorado Space Grant and others are building speakers through the ITLL, in
addition to taking various courses across campus. The Engineering Upward
Bound program, which ends
this week, was made possible in large part by a gift from civil
engineering alumnus James D. Abrams.
SUMMER BRIDGE
The Multicultural Engineering Program is hosting 26 incoming freshmen for
its annual five-week Summer Bridge program. This “academic boot camp,”
which features mini-courses in calculus, chemistry, physics, and
computing, as well as team building exercises and field trips, started
June 15 and will wrap up on July 22. Faculty and staff are invited
to attend a poster presentation of the students’ mini projects on
biotechnology Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Engineering Center Lobby.
Following the poster session, group presentations and graduation will take
place in the Benson 180 Auditorium.
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Herbst Program Takes Students to
Rome
Twenty-five CU-Boulder students, one-third of them engineers, spent
Maymester in Rome with Herbst Director Wayne Ambler, examining cultural
differences that lay hidden beneath the term “Western Civilization.”
The
new course, called “Culture Wars in Rome,” divided the history of Rome
into three periods: (1) Ancient pagan aristocracy, (2) Medieval and
Renaissance Christian monarchy, and (3) Modern secular democracy. Students
examined the main differences in the art, architecture, religion and, to a
lesser extent, literature, of each of these three vast periods and tried
to get a sense of how a single “eternal city” has really been a succession
of very different cultures.
“We
did this by way of a reading packet prepared well in advance and by
walking our legs off each day in Rome,” Ambler said. “With any luck, the
students will not only have learned a lot of European history in a
relatively short time; they will also now be better able to approach the
21st century USA with a bit more perspective.”
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At left, CU students
Allison Lami, Patrick Mitchell, S. Jacob Lawrence-Simon, Eddie Corrigan,
Kevin Spark, Jeremy Braunagel, and Alan “Buck” Kempner visit the villa of
the great emperor and architect Hadrian as part of a Maymester
course in Rome with Herbst Director Wayne Ambler. At right, Corrigan measures the
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Faculty Reserve Requests for
Fall Semester
Faculty planning
to place material on “Reserve” in the Engineering Library are asked to
submit a request form as soon as possible. The form is available online
at:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/engineering/forms/reserves.htm.
Faculty may
submit the form electronically or fax a completed copy to 492-6488.
Requests for library items will be pulled for you. You also may bring any
personal items you wish to have placed on Reserve.
For articles,
old tests, or other photocopied material, we recommend creating an
e-Reserve. These on-line documents are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week, either from on or off campus. Since the items are viewed,
downloaded, or printed rather than checked out, they are always available
and cannot be lost or damaged. For an overview of e-Reserves, go to:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/circulation/ereserves/index.htm
Materials will
be processed as quickly as possible within the following guidelines:
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Requests
submitted by Aug. 22 will be on reserve/recalled in time for the start
of the semester, availability permitting.
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Requests
submitted after Aug. 22 will be processed as soon as possible, with
items marked “High Priority” processed first.
For assistance,
contact Gabby Hoosein at 303-492-5397 or
Gabrielle.Hoosein@colorado.edu.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations
to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.
Students
Jay Shah,
a graduate student in environmental engineering, received the Franklin H.
Williams Award from the Peace Corps. The award recognizes returned Peace
Corps volunteers of color who show an ongoing commitment to community
service and who support the agency's goal of promoting a better
understanding of other countries and peoples to Americans.
Chris Lane,
an aerospace engineering graduate student working at CCAR, was selected as
one of four students to receive the AIAA Foundation Open Topic Graduate
Award for 2005.
Jillian Hartford,
a civil engineering PhD candidate, has been named a Society of Women
Engineers 2005-2006 Caterpillar Scholar. The scholarship is awarded based
on the applicant's leadership roles in school and community activities.
Applicants were also asked to state why they believe they will make a
difference as engineers and what influenced them to study engineering.
Jillian is researching the dynamics of turbulent stirring and mixing under
the guidance of Professor John Crimaldi.
Kyuhong Choi
and Thomas Jakub,
graduate students in aerospace engineering, have been awarded NASA
Graduate Fellowships for Earth System Science. Choi’s fellowship is for
"High-Rate GPS Applications for Earth System Science: from 0.05 Seconds to
Days" and Jakub’s is for "Reconstruction of Global Sea Level Variations
Over the Last Century Using Satellite Altimeter and Tide Gauge Data."
Hairong Zheng,
graduate student working with Robin Shandas in mechanical engineering was
awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association for
his work on theoretical and experimental modeling of micro and nanobubbles
for non-linear ultrasonic imaging.
Alumni
Michael Moreau
(PhD Aero’01), who currently is working at NASA GSFC, was selected for the
2005 Young Engineer/Scientist Award by the AIAA National Capital Section.
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New Faculty and Staff
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff members:
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Megan Marquez,
general professional III, ITP
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Zhiwen Yuan,
research associate, CEAE
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James Pasquotto,
administrative assistant II, CADSWES
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Valerie Matthews,
program assistant I, ECE
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Hae Won Choi,
research associate, CS
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Patrick Ryan,
faculty director of ITP and scholar in residence
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