Lighting Education Grant

The undergraduate lighting education program in architectural engineering has received a grant from Osram Sylvania, providing $50,000 per year for the next several years. The grant will support Dave DiLaura and Bob Davis in strengthening the design aspects of the program by developing a new capstone design class, and offering honoraria and travel expenses for professional lighting designers from the East and West Coast. Three executives from Osram Sylvania visited the program Sept. 9 to initiate the grant.
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College Rankings

The college’s undergraduate engineering program was ranked 18th among public universities offering doctoral degrees and 33rd among both public and private universities in the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

The undergraduate program in aerospace engineering was ranked 12th among public universities offering doctoral degrees and 17th among both public and private doctoral universities. The 2005 America’s Best Colleges edition was published Aug. 23.
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ITL Teaching in Public Schools
Mindy Zarske and Daria Kotys-Schwartz from the ITL team are teaching Creative Engineering, a design-based technical elective at the new Denver School of Science and Technology.  This urban public high school has just opened its doors to 130 ninth-grade students.

Also, in partnership with six Lafayette neighborhood schools in the Boulder Valley School District, the ITL K-12 Engineering Fellows will teach engineering weekly throughout the fall semester in 17 fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms, 23 middle school science and technology classrooms, and seven high school pre-engineering classrooms.  This work is supported through NSF and the Department of Education, and tests curriculum that will become available online in early 2005 in the TeachEngineering digital library collection.
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Financial Aid & Career Services
Sue Enzinna of Financial Aid and Wendy Winter of Career Services have new offices in the ECCE 100 suite where MEP and WIEP are located.  They are available to help engineering students in room ECCE 114, with Sue Enzinna holding office hours on Mondays and Wednesdays 1:15 - 4:15 pm., and Wendy Winter holding office hours Tuesdays 9-5 and Thursdays 1:30 – 5 p.m.
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Honors and Awards
Faculty
Susan Avery of electrical and computer engineering and outgoing director of CIRES has been named interim dean of the Graduate School and vice chancellor for research.

Jackie Sullivan of ITL has accepted a three-year appointment to serve on the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee, a 20-person working group that examines the direction of the Engineering Directorate and its programmatic activities.

Evi Nemeth of computer science received the Festival Award at the Fifth Annual Telluride Tech Festival on Aug. 14, in recognition of her many contributions to system administration, infrastructure measurement, and cryptography. The Telluride Technology Festival is a "Celebration of the Past, Present, and Future of Technology."

Ross Corotis of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been named editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Engineering Mechanics.  He also was elected to the National Academy of Engineering Nominating Committee and has started serving on the NAE Investment and Budget Committee.

Jeff Forbes of aerospace engineering sciences will give the Nicolet Lecture at the December meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. He will speak on "Comparative Dynamics and Aeronomy of the Atmospheres of Earth and Mars.”

Angela Bielefeldt of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, an international organization. The award will be presented Oct. 4 in New Orleans.

Rajagopalan Balaji of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been appointed an associate editor of Geophysical Research Letters, one of the journals of American Geophysical Union.