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Fall '04 Student Enrollment Figures | New Research Center Established on Cognitive Technologies |
CS Team Uncovers Security Flaws on Popular Web Site | ITLL Manufacturing Workshops |
Honors and Awards | Faculty and Staff | Engineering Development | College Calendar | In the News |

MEP and WIEP students work together in their new study center. Women in Engineering and Multicultural Engineering Programs and Career Services share space in the new ECCE 100 suite that officially opened Oct. 7.

Fall '04 Student Enrollment Figures

The official fall head count indicates that the College of Engineering and Applied Science has an undergraduate enrollment of 2,736 students this fall, an increase of 2.6 percent over last year.   

Women make up 17.2 percent of the undergraduate engineering enrollment and 23.7 percent of the graduate engineering enrollment (not including EMP and ITP, for which the numbers are not yet available). The enrollment also includes 194 underrepresented minorities at the undergraduate level (7.1 percent), and 51 underrepresented minorities at the graduate level (5.3 percent, not including EMP and ITP).

A total of 29,258 degree-seeking students are enrolled on the Boulder campus, a slight increase from last year’s 29,151. To view the engineering enrollment breakdown and look at trends, go to http://engineering.colorado.edu/
overview/students.htm
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New Research Center Established on Cognitive Technologies

Michael Lightner of electrical and computer engineering and Cathy Bodine of the Health Sciences Center will co-direct the first-ever Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Cognitive Technologies, established through a five-year, $4.25 million grant to CU from the U.S. Dept. of Education and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

The new center will focus on a dozen research and technology development projects to assist people with cognitive impairments, including Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, and traumatic brain injury. Projects will include assessing needs, analyzing the effectiveness of existing technologies, designing and implementing new cognitive technologies, as well as developing courses and textbooks on the topic. 

The Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities and Imagine! contributed matching funds to the grant for a total of $5.5 million, of which more than $800,000 in funding will go to research and development projects in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Funded activities include work by Regan Zane in electrical and computer engineering, Clayton Lewis in computer science, Jim Sullivan and others in the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design, and Ron Cole in the Center for Spoken Language Research.
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Computer Science Team Uncovers Security Flaws on Popular Web Site
A computer science team comprised of assistant professor John Black, graduate student Martin Cochran, and undergraduate Ryan Gardner spent part of last summer conducting a security analysis of a popular online chess club called the Internet Chess Club. The ICC boasts over 30,000 members, including many of the world’s top chess players.

The team uncovered several security flaws related to how time is measured per player and how encryption works between client and server. Problems were described at each level of the security protocol from the blockcipher to the key exchange mechanism. The research identified methods for improving the site's security in a variety of ways and also led to questions ripe for further research.

The project was partly sponsored by a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) cybersecurity grant, which allows undergraduates from around the country to come to Boulder for a summer to gain exposure to research in computer and network security. The team’s paper, "How to Cheat at Chess: A Security Analysis of the Internet Chess Club," can be found at http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/203/
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ITLL Manufacturing Workshops
The ITL Program is once again running evening, not-for-credit, hands-on Women's Manufacturing Workshops for students to learn skills that are useful for engineering design/build projects. Eighteen undergraduate women enrolled in the first set of three-week workshops.  For more information, contact ITLL Manufacturing Center Manager Mark Eaton at 492-6605 or mark.eaton@colorado.edu
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Honors and Awards
Faculty
Al Weimer of chemical and biological engineering has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy for “Solar-Thermal Hydrogen Production Using a Manganese-Oxide Based Thermochemical Water Splitting Cycle.”

Alexander Wolf of computer science will be the keynote speaker at the ACM SIGSOFT 2004 conference to be held in Newport Beach, Calif., starting Oct. 31. His talk is titled, "Is Security Engineering Really Just Good Software Engineering?"

Dan Frangopol of civil, environmental and architectural engineering was elected vice-president of the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure. The CEAE department is a founding member of this society along with the University of Tokyo - Japan, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing - Germany, and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research - Switzerland.