Top Research
What makes ChBE one of the top research institutes in the country?
Compare us to other depts nationwide
• 2nd in new grants per faculty*
• 5th in total value of new grants
per faculty*
• 8th in Faculty Scholarly
Productivity Index*
• 10th in publications per faculty*
• 10th in citations per faculty*
• 10th in citations per paper*
• 10th among public graduate
programs**
• 18th among all graduate programs**
• 2012 research expenditures
per faculty = $620K
Research Centers
• Biorefining and biofuels (C2B2)
• Renewable and sustainable
energy (RASEI)
• Pharmaceutical biotechnology
• Membrane separations (MAST)
• Photopolymerization
• BioFrontiers Institute
Parlayance of research to industry
• 10 successful start-up companies
based on ChBE research
Award-winning faculty
• 15/24 research faculty have won
≥1 national research awards
Student excellence
• Average incoming grad student
GPA=3.89/4.0, GRE=769/800
New facilities
• ChBE's facilities built in 2012:
Jennie Smoly Caruthers
Biotechnology Building
* Chronicle of Higher Education (2011)
** U.S. News & World Report (2014)
Top Education
How does ChBE provide a first-rate education?
Innovative teaching
• Screencasts (over 1.5 million views)
• ConcepTests and peer instruction
• Thinking aloud pair problem solving
• Flipped classrooms
• Interactions with industry
• In-class worksheets + recitations
Strong emphasis on undergrad research
• 70% of ChBE undergrads
participate
• Indep Study, Senior Thesis,
Discovery Learn, UROP
Special programs
• Co-op
• Study Abroad
• Honors Program
• BS/MS program
• Earn-Learn
Award-winning educators
• 15/28 faculty have won ≥1
teaching awards
Variety of options
• 2 degrees (Chem Eng and
Chem & Bio Eng)
• 6 options (Biotechnology, Energy,
Materials, Environmental,
Microelectronics, Computers)
• Pre-med curriculum
Active student groups
• AIChE, OXE, SWE, BMES
ChBE graduate students hosted 87 middle school students on May 11 for a Science & Engineering Field Day at the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building (JSCBB).
ChBE Professor John Falconer was the featured educator in the Spring 2013 issue of Chemical Engineering Education.
Our congratulations to Kristi Anseth, who has been elected to the Natio
Congratulations to our AIChE student group, who did extremely well in the AIChE Regional Conference Chem-E-Car Competition held at New Mexico State University last weekend. The student group submitted both a battery car and a biodiesel car into c
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Our congratulations to Kristi Anseth, who has been elected to the Natio
Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth was awarded the 2013 Hazel
The past several months have been exciting for Professor Christine Hrenya.
Associate Chair and Senior Instructor Janet de Grazia received the 2013 Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) award for Excellence in Service. Janet has now won the BFA awards for both Teaching (2010) and Service.
Professor Christine Hrenya was the recipient of the 2013 Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor Chris Bowman and his group received both a new NIH grant and a new tech transfer grant to work on artificial nucleic acids.
In November of 2012, Professor Steve George was elected President-Elect of the American Vacuum Society for 2013.
Professor Chris Bowman was one of six University of Colorado faculty members to be named a Distinguished Professor, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university.
Doug Gin was named Ind. & Eng. (I&EC) Division Fellow by the Americal Chemical Society (2013)
ChBE faculty received $400K in total funding from the Department of Education for new Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) on the topic of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Leading the ChBE efforts were Al Weimer
Congratulations to graduate students Tyler Martin and Matt McBride, both of whom have received prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships.
Katie Lewis, a graduate student in the Anseth lab, received a 2013 Whitaker International Program Summer Grant to work for two months this summer with Prof.
Congratulations to ChBE undergraduates Taylor Kennedy, Anna McLeland and Kayla Weston who won awards at the Discovery Learning Research Symposium in April.
Undergraduate students Brittany Earle and Jeni Sorli have been selected to receive prestigious national Goldwater Scholarships.
Congratulations to graduate student Justine Roberts, who was awarded the Whitaker Fellowship to conduct post-doctoral research with Laura Poole-Warren and Penny Martens at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Congratulations to Torrie Aston, who took 1st Place in the AIChE Chemical Reaction Engineering Division Graduate Student Poster Competition held in Pittsburgh, PA in November, 2012.
Congratulations to ChBE undergraduate junior Saikripa Radhakrishnan, who won the 2012-13 Genentech Outstanding Student Award. This award includes both a cash prize and an optional summer internship.
Kayla Weston, an undergraduate junior conducting research in the labs of Al Weimer, won for her poster titled “A Comparison of Two-step Concentrated Solarthermal Water Splitting Materials”. Congratulations to her Ph.D.
Aaron Palumbo, a graduate student in the Weimer group, won for his poster titled “Co-utilization of Methane in Steam-biomass Gasification using Concentrated Solar Energy”.
Van Norman, a graduate student in the Weimer group, won for her poster titled “Thin Film, Big Difference – Atomic Layer Deposition Functionalized Oxide and Polymer Particles”.