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Associate professor Ron Rorrer has been named chair for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1, 2021. Since joining the college in 1997, Rorrer has developed and taught a … Continue Reading Rorrer named chair of mechanical engineering
Two College of Engineering, Design and Computing staff have received the fourth quarter Cause for Applause award. This quarter’s recipients are: Karen Gilbert, Department of Bioengineering Andrew Henderson, Inworks The … Continue Reading Quarterly Cause for Applause winners named
In fall 2019, the CU Denver College of Engineering, Design and Computing launched a new mentorship program in partnership with Mentor Collective with the goal of producing high-quality relationships across … Continue Reading College partners with Mentor Collective to foster high-impact relationships
Engineering faculty and staff understand why people want to become engineers: Engineers get to use their creative side and their analytical side. It’s fun to work on a team. Exploring … Continue Reading Engineering Professors Tackle Barrier to Inclusion: Their Own Culture
Nick Jacobson, a clinical design researcher with the Inworks Innovation Initiative, was one of 36 Colorado startups to receive Advanced Industries Accelerator Program funding from the Colorado Office of Economic … Continue Reading Jacobson receives OEDIT Advanced Industries Accelerator Grant
CU Denver’s Comcast Media and Technology Center (CMTC), the System Engineering Education Ecosystem (SEEE) team, and International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) have collaborated on the SEEE Portal, a forward-thinking initiative … Continue Reading Comcast Media and Technology Center collaborates on new Systems Engineering Education Ecosystem Portal
Electrical engineering alumna Ashanthi Maxworth, PhD ’17 & MS ’14, received the 2021 Faculty Senate Award for Scholarship for the University of Southern Maine (USM) where she is an assistant … Continue Reading Maxworth receives 2021 Faculty Senate Award for Scholarship
If anyone knows about the value of persistence and determination, it’s Odalis Castro. On top of completing her final year at CU Denver, she spent countless hours applying for a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research … Continue Reading Odalis Castro receives Fulbright Award to Fund Skin Cancer Research in Poland
Sean Hansen, a 2021 bioengineering graduate, is this year’s CU Denver Colorado Engineering Council Silver Medal Award recipient. The Medal of Award in silver is presented annually to graduating senior … Continue Reading Sean Hansen receives 2021 CEC Silver Medal Award
The Lewis Family Awards exist to honor the memory of brother and sister, Drew and Nancy, by encouraging others to be “who they are, enjoy everything they do, and make … Continue Reading Spring 2021 Lewis Family Award Winners
On May 11, Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, associate professor of diversity and STEM education, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, presented her talk “BLACK, BROWN, BRUISED: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation.” … Continue Reading College hosts Dr. Ebony McGee for a talk on Racialized STEM Education
More than 170 students and 33 teams participated in the Spring 2021 Virtual Capstone Expo. Projects civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering and computer science and engineering tackled real-world problems and … Continue Reading Spring 2021 Capstone Expo Winners and Recap
Congratulations to Allison Gus, graduate admissions and recruitment coordinator, on receiving the 2021 College of Engineering, Design and Computing Outstanding Staff award. Allison joined the college in 2018 and has … Continue Reading Gus named 2021 Outstanding Staff
Bhanu Babaiahgari, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, has been offered and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Penn State Hazelton with their Department of Electrical Engineering. Babaiahgari will … Continue Reading Babaiahgari named assistant professor at Penn State Hazelton
Kai Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at CU Denver, has received the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious … Continue Reading Yu receives NSF CAREER award to support research in active polymers
The inaugural Design Horizons Entrepreneurial Fellows Program is an immersive nine-month, co-curricular learning journey for CU Denver students passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, design, and all forms of creativity. Created in … Continue Reading Design Horizons: CU Denver students drive innovation and entrepreneurship
Chelsea Magin, assistant professor of bioengineering, was named a 2021 “40 Gators Under 40” from her alma mater University of Florida. The winners were announced via social media, and Magin … Continue Reading Magin named a 40 Gators Under 40 awardee
Vijay Harid, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and a team of researchers, received a National Science Foundation award for his project “Establishing an Iron Resonance Wind-Temperature Lidar at High-Frequency Active … Continue Reading Harid receives collaborative NSF award
Daewon Park, associate professor of bioengineering, has been named a 2021 MSA Mentor of the Year, an annual award bestowed by the CU School of Medicine’s Mentored Scholarly Activity (MSA) … Continue Reading Park named MSA Mentor of the Year
Six College of Engineering, Design and Computing staff have received the third quarter Cause for Applause award. This quarter’s recipients are: Shaun Boulier, Department of Bioengineering Jac Corless, Department of … Continue Reading Quarterly Cause for Applause recipients named
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