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Engineering Honors Program Takes Up Residence at Andrews Hall
It doesn’t look at all like the “old” Andrews. Colin West, a Boettcher scholar who lived in Andrews Hall as a freshman and returned this fall as a senior, says the newly renovated residence hall in the Kittredge Complex is much more appealing with its community kitchen, unique room configurations, and multiple common areas. Indeed, 67 returning students live in the 229-bed residence hall, or about 30 percent of its total capacity.
Andrews underwent a $14 million upgrade to advance a number of CU-Boulder’s Flagship Initiatives, including one calling for multi-year residential colleges. The residence hall opened its doors this fall to engineering students primarily from the Engineering Honors Program. Included in the new Andrews is a small apartment housing a faculty member and his family—Scot Douglass, director of the Engineering Honors Program, his wife, Kathleen, and their two daughters, ages 4 and 6."The vision of Andrews is the creation of a community that is deeply ambitious without being competitive--a place where talented individuals come together to challenge, inspire, and enjoy each other," Douglass said.
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The college welcomed nearly 800 new students to campus this fall, including approximately 708 first-years and 72 new transfer students. The new first-year class includes more women, more underrepresented minorities, and more Colorado residents than in recent years. Twenty-five percent, or one out of 4 first-year students are women, setting a new record in the college. Nine percent of the first-year students are from underrepresented minorities and 77 percent are from Colorado.
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New undergraduate students attended an extended Orientation program, which included workshops on study skills aimed at improving the first-year experience. Additional support offerings will continue through the fall semester with sessions at the Engineering Quad focusing on stress management, choosing a major, note-taking, and study skills.
Undergraduate Program Ranks 19th Among Public Schools
U.S. News & World Report ranked CU Engineering 19th among public engineering programs, and 34th overall among institutions whose highest degree awarded is a doctorate. Our aerospace and environmental engineering programs were both ranked 11th among specialty programs at public institutions. >>More info
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements:
Faculty
The following faculty were selected to receive
Dean's Performance Awards for 2009:
-Scot Douglass of
the Herbst Program of Humanities for outstanding
teaching;
-Jeffrey Forbes of aerospace engineering
sciences for outstanding research,
-Robert McLeod of
electrical, computer, and energy engineering for
outstanding junior faculty; and
-Clayton Lewis of
computer science for professional progress.
The awards will be presented Sept. 25 at the
college faculty/staff meeting.
Doug
Sicker of
computer science, Eric Frew
of aerospace engineering sciences, and Robert McLeod of
electrical, computer, and energy engineering
were selected to receive Faculty Achievement
Awards from the Provost. The awards will be
presented Oct. 16 at Old Main Chapel.
Dan Schwartz
of chemical and biological engineering, and
Timothy
Scott, Robin Shandas,
and
Wei Tan
of mechanical engineering received
proof-of-concept grants aimed at bioscience
commercialization. The grants are funded by the
State of Colorado with matching funds provided
by the university.
Leysia Palen
and colleagues in computer science received a
$2.4 million grant from the National Science
Foundation for “Widescale Computer-Mediated
Communication in Crisis Response: Roles, Trust,
and Accuracy in the Social Distribution of
Information.”
Xinzhao Chu
of aerospace
engineering sciences received a $1.2 million
grant from the National Science Foundation for “Lidar
Investigation of Middle Atmosphere Temperature,
Composition, Chemistry, and Dynamics at McMurdo,
Antarctica.”
Mark Hernandez of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering participated in the American Society for Microbiology's 2009 Kadner Institute, which helps to prepare graduate students and postdoctoral scientists for microbiology careers. The institute was held in the DLC in July.
Keith Molenaar
of civil, environmental, and architectural
engineering was appointed to a three-year term
representing the American Society of Civil
Engineers at UPADI, the Pan-American Federation
of Engineering Societies.
The
following faculty passed milestones of service
to CU-Boulder in August:
Frank Barnes—50
years
Larry Carlson,
David Clough, Clifford Mullis—35 years
James Diekmann—30
years
Clayton Lewis,
Dobroslav Znidarcic—25 years
Dirk Grunwald,
Vijay Gupta, George Hearn, Y.C. Lee, Mahesh
Varanasi, Janet deGrazia—20
years
Ross Corotis—15
years
John Crimaldi, Amer
Diwan, Scot Douglass, Francois Meyer, Keith
Molenaar, Tad Pfeffer, Leland Giovannelli—10 years
Eric Frew, Leysia
Palen, Jerry Qi, Diane Sieber, Siva Mettupalayam,
Jeffrey Thayer, Manish Vachharajani, Barbara
Lawton—5 years
Staff
The following staff passed milestones of service
to CU in August and September:
Ellen Romig—30 years
Ann Brookover—25 years
Colleen Haddock—20 years
Christopher Schenk, Courtney Staufer, Rhonda Maldonado—10 years
Students
Marcin Pilinski
and Bruce Davis,
graduate students in aerospace engineering
sciences, won first- and second-place
respectively for their presentations on the
DANDE nanosatellite project at the AIAA Small
Satellite Conference student scholarship
competition in Logan, Utah. Marcin was awarded
$10,000 and invited to present his paper at the
European Space Conference next year, while Bruce
was awarded $7,000 and invited to chair a
session there.
The
following administrative appointments were made:
Marty Dunn,
Associate Dean for Research
Victor Bright, Chair, Mechanical
Engineering