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The BioEngineering Empowerment Program (BEEP) was created in the summer of 2020 as a way to provide opportunities and resources for high school students to gain access to engineering, medicine, … Continue Reading BioEngineering Empowerment Program connects with local high schools
When frontline workers in Colorado faced a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in their fight against the Coronavirus, CU Denver | Anschutz Inworks, as part of the College of … Continue Reading Inworks and Make4COVID network produce and distribute PPE across Colorado
Aria Collopy, system innovation design lead in the Comcast Media and Technology Center and post-doctoral fellow in the College of Engineering, Design and Computing, has been accepted into the Rising … Continue Reading Collopy accepted to Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Program
Peter Jenkins, professor of mechanical engineering and former dean, retired from CU Denver and the College of Engineering, Design and Computing in June and has been named Professor Emeritus. Jenkins … Continue Reading Jenkins named professor emeritus, retires, and leaves legacy
Héctor R. Robles-Campos, PhD candidate, and Fernando Mancilla-David, professor of electrical engineering, received the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Student Best Paper award for their paper titled “A comparative evaluation of … Continue Reading Robles-Campos receives IES Student Best Paper Award
Chelsea Magin, assistant professor of bioengineering, pediatrics, and medicine, received an R01 ($2.58M) award from the National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood to engineer dynamic 3D models of pulmonary … Continue Reading Magin receives RO1 award from the National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood
Thoria Alghamdi, PhD student in computer science and engineering, received the best paper award from ICITA 2020 : XIV. International Conference on Information Technology and Applications for her paper “Two … Continue Reading Alghamdi receives best paper award
This summer, Min Choi, professor of computer science and engineering, and computer science post-doc Shane Transue received a $250k NSF award for their research involving breathing diagnostics using thermal imaging … Continue Reading Choi receives NSF Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation award
Douglas Sicker, a noted leader in computer science and engineering, with extensive expertise in technology and public policy, has joined the faculty of CU Denver’s College of Engineering, Design and … Continue Reading Douglas Sicker joins college to lead next era of computing and technology in engineering education
Faculty and students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering are working on a project aimed to mitigate risk and prepare for the new normal after Covid19. This is … Continue Reading Project aims to mitigate risk and prepare for COVID19 “new normal”
Grantees plan to 3D-print player-specific helmet liners to reduce concussions The National Football League (NFL) and Football Research, Inc. awarded Impressio, Inc. and the University of Colorado Denver $491,999 in HeadHealthTECH … Continue Reading NFL Awards $491,999 to CU Denver, Impressio, Inc. for Helmet Safety
Chelsea Magin, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering at CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus has received the Recognition of … Continue Reading Magin receives Recognition of Early Academic Achievement Award
Biological tissues have evolved over millennia to be perfectly optimized for their specific functions. Take cartilage as an example. It’s a compliant, elastic tissue that’s soft enough to cushion joints, … Continue Reading CEDC researchers develop 3D-printable material that mimics biological tissues
Daewon Park, associate professor of bioengineering, received an R01 ($1.54M) from NIH/NEI titled “Engineered multi-therapeutic agents delivery system towards retinal ganglion cell axon regeneration” and a CCTSI CSU-CU Co-Pilot ($60K) … Continue Reading Park receives R01 from NIH/NEI
David Hubly, professor emeritus and former interim dean, passed away on April 16, 2020, at his home in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico. Hubly served as civil engineering faculty for more … Continue Reading In memoriam: David Hubly
Maryam Darbeheshti, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been named the CU Denver faculty award winner for Excellence in Teaching (Instructional/Research/Clinical Faculty). Darbeheshti will be recognized at a luncheon provisionally … Continue Reading Darbeheshti receives campus-level Excellence in Teaching Award
