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The CU Solar Decathlon Team is preparing its entry for the third Department of Energy competition at a temporary building site in Westminster’s Bradburn Village. The 2007 Solar Decathlon will be held Oct. 12-20 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. |
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College Research Awards Top $40 Million “We receive a surprisingly rich blend of sponsored research funding," said Stein Sture, CU-Boulder's vice-chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate School. "The dedication of our faculty in successfully competing for awards helps to support our graduate students, who are involved in many innovative projects that benefit Colorado and the nation." Graphs of research awards and expenditures in the college, as well as source funds, can be viewed online.
Former
Astronaut Visits College Shriver is vice president and chief technology officer of United Space Alliance, a company jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin which is under contract with NASA to operate the space shuttle fleet and the international space station. He is a veteran of space flights in 1985, 1990 and 1992, and later served as space shuttle program manager for launch integration at the Kennedy Space Center.
Alumni
& Donors Tour Solar Decathlon Home The team is in its final weeks of construction before it must dismantle the home into four pieces for transportation across the country. Students then have a week to rebuild it on the National Mall. The CU team is getting a lot of attention for the project nationally and is considered "the team to beat" by other universities after winning first-place in the first two Solar Decathlon events. Fund-raising for the project continues. For more information, visit the CU Solar Decathlon Team or DOE Competition website.
Honors and Awards
Faculty James Diekmann of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been named to the National Academy of Construction Engineering, and he was awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers' Purifoy Award, the highest award given to a construction engineer. Ryan Starkey of aerospace engineering sciences has been selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lawrence Sperry Award for 2008. This award honors Lawrence B. Sperry, pioneer and inventor, and is presented for a notable contribution made by a young person to the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics. Dennis Akos of aerospace engineering sciences received the DARPA Young Faculty Award. Scott Palo of aerospace engineering sciences received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Rocky Mountain Section Educator of the Year Award. Joseph Ryan of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has received an Erskine Fellowship to visit the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand for his sabbatical in 2008-09. Ken Strzepek of civil, environmental and architectural engineering served on the Chancellor's Flagship 2030 committee, which recently issued its report. Xinlin Li of aerospace engineering sciences received the Outstanding Young Oversea Scientist Award from the Chinese National Science Foundation. Kristine Larson of aerospace engineering sciences has been selected to present the Geodesy Section 2007 Bowie Lecture at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Students Erin Towler and Kendra Colyar of civil, environmental and architectural engineering each received the National Water Research Institute's Graduate Student Research Fellowship. Jonathan Metts, a doctoral student in aerospace engineering sciences, recently won a NASA Graduate Student Research Project Award. Fabio Pacifici and Fabio Del Frate, Italian graduate students working with William Emery of aerospace engineering sciences, won the Data Fusion contest of the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society of the IEEE. Richard Tan, Geoff Sanders, Ankit Tripathi, and Marc Hesse of electrical and computer engineering, along with students from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, competed as finalists in the International Future Energy Challenge competition in Chicago on Aug. 20, winning the Outstanding Educational Impact and Undergraduate Teamwork Award. The team, led by professors Frank Barnes and Ewald Fuchs, developed an integrated starter/alternator-motor drive for automotive applications, for the competition sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association. Bruce Davis, Jonathan Metts and Laurren Kanner, graduate students working with David Klaus in aerospace engineering sciences, were named finalists in the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems’ design contest for a lunar habitat. The team will present its work at a conference Nov. 7-10 in Hilo, Hawaii.
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