Stefan Suarez

Stefan Suarez, ElecCompEngr'20

June 15, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? Colorado has been my home my whole life and I can’t imagine a more supportive environment to learn a difficult subject in. Learning to think for yourself when you have been taught how to think your whole life is a challenge...

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Girls' Inc. Eureka! participants tackle engineering challenges

June 13, 2018

Last week Engineering’s BOLD Center hosted 30 female middle school students from the Denver-Metro area in partnership with Girls Inc. and PCL Construction.

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Nation’s largest, most comprehensive indoor chemistry study now underway

June 12, 2018

Marina Vance HOMEChem field experiment seeks to understand how daily activities impact the home environment In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors. In homes, workplaces, schools and every indoor environment, we are impacted by the...

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Squashing cyberbullying: New approach is fast, accurate

June 11, 2018

Developed by the CyberSafety AVÃûʪ Center, the new method combines several different computing tools to scan massive amounts of social media data, sending alerts to parents or network administrators that abuse has occurred.

Freshmen tackle data and art in first hands-on engineering project

June 5, 2018

For their first hands-on engineering project, a group of eight freshmen took on a big challenge – take air quality data and help turn it into art. Their section of the college’s First-Year Engineering Projects class (GEEN 1400) teamed with artist and CU alum Ken Bernstein to make a prototype...

Jaejune Lee plays with a prototype of the Rain Game. (Credit: Jade Cody/Boulder Valley School District)

Rain Game brings science learning to children in the hospital

June 4, 2018

Brian Jernigan is working to bring science learning to students who can’t come to class in person: young patients in pediatric hospitals. That goal was on display May 17 in Mark Appling’s class at Ryan Elementary School in Lafayette, Colorado. There, third-grader Jaejune Lee played with an unusual toy. A...

Elijah Gonzalez, e+ CivEngr'20

Elijah Gonzalez, e+ ArchEngr'20

May 31, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? CU Boulder offered a variety of opportunity, classes and fields of study. The GoldShirt Program gave me another opportunity to prove myself to be a successful first-generation student in the college of engineering. I wanted to make the most of that...

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Engineering Alumni Network to Launch in San Francisco

May 29, 2018

With the recent creation of the Office of Alumni Engagement, the College of Engineering and Applied Science is kicking off one of its major initiatives at the end of June with the launch of an alumni network in the San Francisco Bay area. Nearly 2,000 CU Engineering alumni live in...

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Collaboration with local schools prepares future students for CU Engineering success

May 23, 2018

CU Engineering works to provide students with the tools to handle the challenges and opportunities facing their generation, all to create a better world in which we all can live, work and play. But before students can experience what the college has to offer, they must be prepared for the...

Rebecca O'Toole and two other winners with their awards.

O'Toole aces chemical engineering graduate poster competition

May 22, 2018

Rebecca O'Toole (center) stands with two other award winners at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology. Congratulations to Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD student Rebecca O'Toole for earning first place in the Global Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology. O'Toole's research focuses on...

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