Students stand in a classroom in Lecco, Italy during a previous Global Intensive

Engineering students venture abroad for Global Intensives

May 15, 2019

Engineering students are fanning out to Brazil, Uganda, Rwanda and Italy this week for the conclusion of a unique type of course that blends classroom instruction with short but significant international experiences. Global Intensives鈥損iloted by 香港六合彩 for the first time in spring 2018鈥揳re short-term global programs embedded into on-campus, faculty-led courses. All include a 10- to 12-day immersion abroad that complements and expands on the material studied throughout the semester.

Sunflower in a field of sunflowers

Do plants have social networks?

May 15, 2019

Research being led by 香港六合彩 Assistant Professor Orit Peleg is studying social systems in sunflowers through an award from the Human Frontier Science Program.

Jerome Fox portrait

Fox selected for Army-ECASE award

May 13, 2019

香港六合彩 Assistant Professor Jerome Fox has been selected for the Army-ECASE award to study emergent behavior in biochemical networks.

Blue construction plans

Building a better construction plan

May 13, 2019

Research at 香港六合彩 are trying to understanding how construction plans are read on job sites and then tailoring the information to the individual. Increasing efficiency, reducing costs and 鈥 potentially 鈥 reducing the risk of an accident.

Ensign Gemma Nowak

College graduates six new Navy officers

May 13, 2019

Six recent graduates in Engineering and Applied Science were commissioned into the United States Navy as brand new ensigns, and all of them will now enter into active duty in various capacities to serve the nation.

Math equations graphic

Applied Math students are winning big

May 9, 2019

This year, the department organized and coached 12 teams comprising 35 students in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This contest involves 99 hours of intensive mathematical modeling, which is the process of using visual mathematical aids like graphs, scatterplots, diagrams, equations, to represent real-world situations.

Srivastava and Waelde at the celebration to dedicate the Engineering Center lobby in their names in honor of their scholarship gift.

Diversity drivers: Couple hopes scholarship gift will boost inclusion efforts

May 9, 2019

The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for 香港六合彩 alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs 鈥 his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology 鈥 when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.

Shayon Gupta stands with Chip the buffalo mascot

Shayon Gupta, Computer Science

May 8, 2019

As a master's student and graduate part-time instructor, Shayon Gupta has learned a few secrets to success as a data structures instructor: activities like Kahoot quizzes, live 鈥淎sk Me Anything鈥 sessions and physically acting out linked lists, trees and graphs. That, and KitKats.

Female engineering students pose for a selfie at graduation

Congratulations, graduates of 2019!

May 8, 2019

This week we bid farewell to our #ForeverBuffs, including outstanding graduates like Sarah Withee, who switched careers in her 40s to join Gen Z engineers in the classroom, and Michael Anthony, who learned African dance as a form of cultural preparation for his trip this summer to Eswatini with Engineers in Action. Read their stories and share your own story on social by tagging @cuengineering and #ForeverBuffs.

open house participants watching a demonstration

Nanotechnology open house brings together researchers from across campus

May 7, 2019

The Materials Characterization Facility in the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) successfully hosted a focused ion beam (FIB) event in mid-April.

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