Honors and Awards
Faculty
Frank Barnes of Electrical and Computer Engineering received the Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering on Feb. 24, in recognition of his innovation in establishing the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at CU-Boulder. The Gordon Prize is NAE’s top educational honor and comes with a $500,000 prize.

George Born of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Kaspar Willam of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering were elected to the National Academy of Engineering on Feb. 13. The NAE recognized Born for contributions to satellite orbit determination and for applications of satellites to geophysics and oceanography. Willam was recognized for contributions to constitutive modeling and computational failure analysis of concrete and quasi-brittle materials and structures.

Kurt Maute of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The award provides $400,000 over five years for research and education focusing on the development and application of unique optimization tools for the bio-mimetic design of adaptive, shape-controlled, macro and micro systems. Design oriented courses, enhanced by a new educational design optimization software platform, and vertically integrated design teams will promote the skills of future design engineers.

Bernard Amadei of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering was recognized by Ch2M Hill and DuPont for his work in founding Engineers Without Borders. The “Building a Better World Award” was presented during National Engineers Week at the Colorado School of Mines.

John Falconer of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Stephen McCormick of Applied Mathematics have received faculty fellowships for 2004-2005 from CU-Boulder’s Council on Research and Creative Work. The fellowships are highly competitive and awards are based on the quality of an applicant's proposal, the applicant's professional record, and the likelihood that the applicant's research will result in contributions to academia and society.

Jim Maslanik of Aerospace Engineering and the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR) has won a new $1 million grant from NASA for “Investigations of Sea Ice State Using Multisensor Data, Time History, and Lagrangian Tracking.”

Staff
Bernadette Garcia, outreach coordinator for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, won the Boulder campus diversity award for excellence as an individual, at the Ninth Annual Campus Diversity Summit on Feb. 27. The Multicultural Engineering Program also was recognized, as reported last month.

Carrol Kalafus, assistant to the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Employee Recognition Award for March.
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Engineering Development
The college wishes to thank the following individuals and businesses that recently made significant gifts to support programs, faculty and students in the college:

Individual Gifts
l George Sissel (ElecEngr ’58), gift establishing the George and Mary Sissel Engineering Scholarship/Fellowship Fund

Corporate and Foundation Gifts
As of November 2003, CU has been designated as a key university for Agilent Technologies. As part of this partnership, the company recently provided more than $250,000 in new equipment to five departments and programs in the college: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, ITLL, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications, and Mechanical Engineering. Two gifts received in February from Agilent are listed below:

l Gift-in-kind of equipment to Rick Han in Computer Science (2 + 16 Channel 600 MHZ Mixed Signal Infiniium Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyzer)

l Gift-in-kind of equipment to Jack Zable for the Durning Lab in Mechanical Engineering (equipment includes Channel Dyn. Signal Analyzer and associated software and hardware)

In addition, the college received a cash gift from the Daniels Fund in support of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program for “Expanding the Engineering Pipeline: A Grades 3-12 Continuum.”
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