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College Calendar
COLORADO MESA FALL FLING
Nov. 17-18, outreach event for students in the Colorado Math,
Engineering, Science Achievement program; hosted by the
Multicultural Engineering Program. Information: 303-492-6606
SOLAR DECATHLON
CELEBRATION
Friday, Nov. 18, 3 p.m. presentation by the Solar Decathlon team in
the Math 100 Auditorium, followed by a 4-5 p.m. open house at the
solar home south of Benson Earth Sciences. Information:
303-492-7426.
RESEARCH MEETING
Friday, Nov. 18, 3:30-4:45 p.m., presentation by Associate Dean for
Research Victor Bright, Clark Conference Room.
HOLIDAY PARTY
Friday, Dec. 2, 5-7 p.m., holiday celebration for faculty, staff and
donors, Discovery Learning Center. Please RSVP by Nov. 23 to Sharon
Powers at
Sharon.powers@colorado.edu or 303-492-7006.
ITLL FALL DESIGN EXPO
Saturday, Dec. 3, 1-3 p.m., exhibit and demonstration of engineering
student projects, Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory.
Information: 303-492-7222.
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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CU-Boulder Student to Testify
Before House Subcommittee on Energy
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CU-Boulder Hosts ‘Battle of
the Brains’ Computer Programming Contest
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CU Wins International Solar
Home Competition in Washington, D.C.
(story)
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CU Engineering Fast
Facts
MEP
and WIEP co-hosted their annual leadership conference Oct. 28 and 29
at the Lockheed Martin facility in south Denver. Twenty students
from CU-Boulder were joined by 10 from CSU, DU, and the Colorado
School of Mines.
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Six members of the CU
Solar Decathlon team are shown with the first-place trophy. From left to
right are architecture undergraduates James Dixon and Jake Uhl, CEAE
graduate students Abby Watrous and Scott Horowitz, and architecture
undergraduates Geoff Berlin and Ryan Drumm.
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CU Wins Trophy in Solar
Decathlon
CU has again won the first-place trophy in the
international Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., beating out 17 other
top universities in this year’s event sponsored by the Department of
Energy. Cornell University placed second this year and California
Polytechnic State University finished third.
Professors Mike Brandemuehl of CEAE and Julee Herdt of
the College of Architecture and Planning were faculty advisors to the CU
team, as they were in 2002. The team took first place in the
Documentation, Communication, and “Getting Around” categories, and also
won the DIY Network’s “Best Built” Award, BP Solar’s “Green” Award, and
the National Home Builders Association’s second-place “Energy Efficiency”
Award.
The house is
being set up south of the Benson Earth Sciences building, where it will
remain throughout this academic year. A campus celebration, including a
presentation by the team, followed by an open house at the solar home, has
been scheduled for Nov. 18, 3-5 p.m. The CU home also will be featured as
part of Historic Boulder’s annual Holiday Tour of Homes, Dec. 3-4. For
more information, contact Mike Brandemuehl at 492-8594 or
michael.brandemuehl@colorado.edu.
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Engineering Open House
A
total of 650 people, including 295 prospective students, attended the
Engineering Open House on Oct. 29, making it the third largest open house
ever hosted by the college. High school students and their parents were
able to attend information sessions and demonstrations in two majors of
their choosing, as well as to tour the Engineering Center and get
information on student services. A new, expanded undergraduate programs
brochure was printed in time for the event. Thank you to all the faculty,
staff and students who helped to make this year’s open house a success.
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ITL Featured in NAE Report
The
long-awaited National Academy of Engineering report, Educating the
Engineer of 2020, has been published. Three ITL Program initiatives
are featured as exemplars in the report: the K-12 TeachEngineering
digital library; retention of students that take the First Year
Engineering Projects (GEEN 1400) course; and the Invention and Innovation
(GEEN 3400) course for preparing students with entrepreneurial skills for
rapid technological change.
In
addition, the ITL Program's TeachEngineering digital library has
received “second round” four-year NSF funding to expand the contents of
the K-12 engineering collection, to map all curriculum to the science and
math educational content standards for all 50 states, and to develop a
non-profit organization for ultimate sustainability of the collection. The
TeachEngineering project, led by Jackie Sullivan, is part of a broader
multi-institutional initiative to create a K-16 engineering "wing" for the
National Science Digital Library that will include ABET exemplars.
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Library Introduces Video
Tutorials
The
Engineering Library has put together some video tutorials on library
services and resources, which are available on the “Learn to Use the
Library” web page at
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/engineering/learn.htm.
Included are four brief tutorials that cover searching the catalog, basics
of finding electronic resources, interlibrary loan options, and advanced
search techniques. Also available are full, in-class lectures on library
usage with accompanying PowerPoint slides available for download. By
providing this link to students through course or department pages or
course management systems, faculty can provide them with library
instruction in lieu of or in addition to presentations in the classroom.
The
available tutorials, which will be expanded in the near future, will
eventually cover the use of specific databases and will supplement the
information contained in the subject guides for disciplines in
engineering. As always, the library invites your feedback and suggestions
on how to improve the site to better serve your students. If appropriate,
please direct your students to this page so they can both save time and
improve their ability to gather background research. Please also note the
library is happy to deliver library instruction in any class, and feel
free to share the link with any interested colleagues.
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Honors and Awards
Congratulations
to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.
Faculty
George Morgenthaler
of aerospace engineering received the American Astronautical Society’s
President’s Recognition Award for his 40 years of service on the
organization’s Board of Directors, including two terms as president
(1964-65).
Doug Sicker
of computer science has been selected to receive a Faculty Award from IBM
in recognition of
his interdisciplinary work in network
security.
Susan Avery,
interim provost and professor of electrical and computer engineering, has
been selected to receive a 2005 Alumni Achievement Award from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences. She was nominated by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
Victor Bright
of mechanical engineering has been named associate dean for research in
the college.
Students
Dave Cahoon,
Chuck Bogenberger
and Peter Himpsel
of mechanical engineering achieved a record time of 3.41 seconds in the
Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge held Oct. 10, marking the second time a CU
team scored the best in this recruiting event, which Shell takes to 20
universities each year.
Gregory White
of
computer science and
Chase Lichtenberg
of physics took third place in the Boulder competition of the ACM Rocky
Mountain Regional Programming Contest. The pair successfully solved two
problems -- an impressive debut for a first-time team who was one member
short due to illness.
Charles Morrey
of
computer science was named the department’s Outstanding TA for spring
2005. He will receive a certificate of recognition and a cash prize of
$200.
The
following student awards were given at the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers meeting in Cincinnati this month:
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Michael Weimer,
an electrical engineering undergraduate doing an independent study
research project in chemical and biological engineering, received the
first-place award in the Graduate Research Particle Technology Forum
Poster Session. His research involves the fabrication and development
of sub-nanosecond response electrical surge protection devices utilizing
Atomic Layer Deposition functionalized conductive core/insulative shell
particles.
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Luis Hakim,
Ph.D. student in chemical and biological engineering, tied for first place
in the Materials and Engineering Sciences Division Graduate Research
Poster Session. Luis presented his research concerning the
functionalization of nanoparticles by Atomic Layer Deposition at both the
poster session and in an oral presentation.
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Candace Vaughn
of chemical and biological engineering, won first-place in the General
Papers category of the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition. Candace
presented her senior thesis research concerning the in-situ synthesis and
Atomic Layer Deposition passivation of nanosized metal particles. A
co-author of the paper was Luis Hakim, who is Candace's GRA advisor on the
project.
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Nicholas Sandoval
of chemical and biological engineering won first-place in the Food,
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology category of the Undergraduate Student
Poster Competition for his research on “Preparing Genomic Libraries for
Acid Tolerance in E. Coli.”
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Jonathan King
of chemical and biological engineering won third-place in the Materials,
Engineering and Sciences category of the
Undergraduate Student Poster Competition
for his
poster on “Incorporating Fibrinogen into Photopolymerizable Hydrogel
Chondrocyte Carriers for Cartilage Tissue Engineering.”
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