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March 2010 CU Engineering News & Events | |||||||
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Aerospace Students Launch Youth Initiative | Four Faculty Win NSF CAREER Awards | Colorado Nanofabrication Laboratory Established | Honors & Awards | New Faculty & Staff | College Calendar | In the News | Fast Facts |
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Aerospace
Students Launch Youth Initiative
Students in the aerospace engineering sciences department have developed
an initiative aimed at inspiring youth and strengthening the nation’s
education in science, technology, engineering, and math.
“We really want to wake up the younger generation,” said Bradley
Cheetham, the graduate student who started the initiative called “We
Want Our Future.”
With the help of a short inspirational video directed at K-12 students,
and a letter written by senior instructor and former astronaut Joe
Tanner, the project aims to collect more than 100,000 postcards from
students around the country graphically depicting what each student
imagines to be the future of space exploration. The
drive, which is co-led by graduate student Bruce Davis, is being made in
conjunction with a number of established space groups, including the
NASA Office of Education, the Challenger Center for Space Science
Education, and the Coalition for Space Exploration. >>More
info
Four Faculty
Win NSF CAREER Awards
Four CU engineering faculty, including three in the electrical,
computer, and energy engineering department, have won Faculty Early
Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation
so far this year. The awardees are ECEE assistant professors
Aaron Bradley, Robert McLeod, and
Li Shang, and assistant professor of computer science
Sriram
Sankaranarayan.
Each award comes with a five-year grant of
approximately $500,000 to establish the faculty member’s research
program. The college has been tremendously successful in winning these
awards over the years. In 2009, the college had six winners—one in each
department.
Colorado
Nanofabrication Laboratory Established
A new nanotechnology facility, known as the Colorado Nanofabrication
Laboratory (CNL), was recently established in the electrical, computer,
and energy engineering department.
CNL is an open-user facility whose mission is to provide
expertise, facilities, infrastructure, and teaming environments to
facilitate interdisciplinary research in microelectronics,
optoelectronics, and MEMS.
The laboratory, directed by Bart Van Zeghbroeck, is one of 14 members of
the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network supported by the
National Science Foundation. It comprises 5,500 square feet and a wide
variety of fabrication and research tools, including photolithography,
thin-film deposition, plasma and chemical etching, and characterization
processes.
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding
achievements:
Faculty
Zoya Popovic of electrical, computer, and
energy engineering received a $4.5 million grant to support graduate
students and post-docs on cooperative projects with NIST.
Carlos Felippa of aerospace engineering
sciences was selected to receive the IACM's 2010 Computational Mechanics
Award. The award will be presented in July in Sydney, Australia.
Rich Noble of chemical and biological
engineering has been selected to receive the CU Alumni Association's
Robert L. Stearns Award in recognition of extraordinary contributions to
the university.
Students
Jill Tombasco and Aurore Sibois of aerospace
engineering sciences have been selected to receive Amelia Earhart Fellowships. Their advisors are Penny Axelrad and George Born,
respectively.
Staff
Ann Brookover of aerospace engineering
sciences won the Employee Recognition Award for March.
Welcome to the following new faculty and staff in the college:
Louis Peasley, Coordinator for Research
Facilitation, Dean's Office |
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