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For the past year, the college has piloted both the Discovery Learning Apprenticeship Program and the Earn-Learn Apprenticeship Program. The Discovery Learning Apprenticeship Program has provided for the support of 12 undergraduate students in both the spring and fall semesters who have participated in research with tenants in the Discovery Learning Center. This pilot program will be expanded for the spring 2005 semester, and we expect to award between 25 and 30 apprenticeships from across the college. The Earn-Learn Apprenticeship Program provides a means by which our students may earn money while working in positions at the college related to their discipline. Examples include lab support, course support, and K-12 outreach. This program is expanding from 15 students last spring and 28 students this fall to approximately 50 students in the spring. Students in both programs receive a stipend of $1,500 for the semester, calculated at $10 per hour for 15 weeks at 10 hours per week. Both programs require a match from the sponsoring faculty member (a 40 percent match for DL apprenticeship) or department (a 50 percent match for E-L apprenticeship).
To
help make this possible, a
challenge grant has been offered to current and recent EAC and RDC
members, faculty, and staff who contribute funds to the
Earn-Learn Program. This challenge grant
will match 50 cents on the dollar for the first $100,000 raised, courtesy
of Resource Development Committee Chair Gary Anderson and Engineering
Advisory Council Chair George Sissel. Pledges must be made by Dec. 31,
2004, but payments may be made through Dec. 31, 2008. If this goal is met,
Rob and Shirley Davis will add $25,000 of their personal funds, and
Associate Dean John Bennett and his wife Penny agreed to do the same.
Facilities
Improvements
Chris Bowman
of chemical and biological engineering has been selected to receive the
U.S. Society For Biomaterials 2005 Clemson Award for his exceptional
contributions to literature in the field of dental materials. The award
will be presented at the SFB annual meeting in Memphis in April.
Kamran Mohseni
of
aerospace engineering sciences has his research in vortex dynamics and its
application to the design of propulsion systems featured in a cover story
in the Oct. 23-29 issue of New Scientist magazine.
Wounjhang Park
of electrical and computer engineering has his research on mechanical
tunable photonic crystal structures featured in the November issue of
Applied Physics Letters.
Larry Carlson
of mechanical engineering and the ITLL gave a keynote address entitled
“The Future of Engineering Education” at a conference on “Creating 21st
Century Engineers” in
Dublin,
Ireland Oct. 21 sponsored by the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Lucy Pao of electrical and computer engineering served as program chair for
the 2004 American Control Conference, one of the two premier international
conferences in control. The 2004 ACC received a record 1,796 paper
submissions, of which 1,031 were accepted for publication.
Dale Lawrence of aerospace engineering sciences,
Lucy Pao of electrical and computer engineering, and ECE graduates
Andrew White and Weibin Xu received the “Best Commercial Potential” award and a $500 cash
prize for their paper, "Low Cost Actuator and Sensor for High-Fidelity
Haptic Interfaces" at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic
Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems.
Regan Zane,
Dragan Maksimovic
and Zoya Popovic
of electrical and computer engineering received a grant from DARPA and GE
for their research proposal on a Planar Integrated Power Processor.
Jeff Stansbury, a courtesy faculty member in chemical and biological engineering
and a professor of restorative dentistry, has been selected as this year's
CU Health Sciences Center New Inventor of the Year. Jeff advises
students, has taught classes, and has participated in a number of other
activities in the ChBE Department.
Computer science students
Thomas Strohmann,
Eric Faller,
and Dominik
Scheder
managed to solve all eight problems in the regional ACM programming
competition, coming in fourth in the entire
Rocky
Mountain region. A portion of the competition was held at CU-Boulder.
Jon Dean,
Ryan Wiens and
Dan Robinson, three students on Larry Carlson’s
Formula SAE team, had the best time of 4.30 seconds in the Shell
Campus Pit Stop Challenge, held at the
CU-Boulder Engineering Center on Oct. 25. Their time was not only the best
at CU, but the best of all 15 schools where Shell took the challenge.
Alumni
Pete Bartoe
(MechEngr’49, MS ’54) was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame
Oct. 30, with a celebration at the Air Force Academy.
Several CU alumni and faculty received special 20th
anniversary awards at Esprit Entrepreneur, a
Boulder event honoring local business leaders. Among those honored were
alumni Bruce
Holland
(ElEngr’74) and
R.C. “Merc” Mercure
(Phys’51, MS ‘55, PhD ‘57), and CU faculty members
Juan Rodriguez,
Marvin Caruthers,
Tom Cech,
and Larry Gold.
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