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Teaching undergraduate-level engineering courses is always a challenge. Teaching advanced concepts via remote instruction during a historic pandemic is even harder.

Assistant Professor C. Wyatt Shields IV is the recipient of a 2022 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award for his proposal “Mapping Immune Cell Responses to High Pressures in Decompression Illness.”

Assistant Professor C. Wyatt Shields IV is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his proposal “Shape-Encoded Electrokinetic Particles for Multiplexed Biosensing.” This project seeks to develop a new method of early identification of disease biomarkers, while also facilitating outreach and education to students at Northglenn High School.

Six students from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science were selected as Herbst Fellows this semester, joining an elite group of scholars who embody the program’s commitment to ethical engineering study and practice.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the revamped and retooled Chemical Engineering Design Project course — a class (re)designed to provide seniors with practical problem-solving experience and foster stronger ties to industry.

Postdocs and graduate students combined art, movement, dance and science for students from the Boulder Valley School District.

A Road Toward Sustainability – from Materials to Processes Speaker: Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez, Postdoctoral Associate University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Will Medlin Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Industrial processes and transportation account for more than 70% of the United States energy consumption. Finding strategies to...

Computational Engineering of Materials at the Nanoscale—where “Classical” meets “Quantum” Speaker: Elizabeth Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Chicago Host: Kayla Sprenger Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 2:45 p.m., JSCBB A108 Seminar Abstract Recent trends in materials have increasingly gone “nano”, transforming bulk material down to only a few hundred atoms...

Improved understanding of transport in concentrated electrolyte solutions has important implications for energy storage, water purification, biological applications, and more. This understanding should ideally persist across length scales: we desire both continuum-level insight into macroscopic concentration and electric potential profiles as well as a molecular-level understanding of the mechanisms governing ion motion. However, the most ubiquitous theory to describe continuum-level electrolyte transport, the Stefan-Maxwell equations, yields transport coefficients which lack clear molecular-level interpretation and cannot be easily computed from molecular simulations.

Hydrogen has long been seen as a possible renewable fuel source, held out of reach for full-scale adoption by production costs and inefficiencies. Researchers in the Weimer Group are working to address this by using solar thermal processing to drive high-temperature chemical reactions that produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which can be used to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels.