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October 2009 EVEN Team Wins the National WEFTEC Student Design Competition
Six EVEN students from the spring 2009 capstone design course won the national design competition at WEFTEC with their innovative design of an upgrade for the Denver Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant. Presenters, shown, from left to right are: Sean Aronson (BS EVEN, May 2009), Leanne Miller (anticipated BS EVEN Dec. 2009), Rishabh Iyer (anticipated BS EVEN Dec. 2009), and Jayson Ellis (completed BS EVEN degree requirements summer 2009). Also contributing to the design were John Craven and Brad Short (anticipated BS EVEN Dec. 2009). The CU team was the top among the ten teams competing in the design competition in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations to our students!
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August 2009 EVEN program at CU-Boulder Ranked 18th by US News and World Report
Our EVEN program at CU-Boulder was ranked 18th among all undergraduate environmental engineering/environmental health undergraduate programs at Ph.D. granting universities by the US News and World Report (Best Colleges 2010; published Aug. 20, 2009; link). It was 11th among public universities. That makes EVEN the second highest nationally rated engineering specialty program at CU (aerospace ranked 16th, 11th among public universities). Overall, the College of Engineering was ranked 34th overall among engineering programs (whose highest degree is a doctorate), and 19th among public universities. CU-Boulder is the highest ranked engineering program in Colorado, with CSM ranked 51st and CSU 64th overall.
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May 2009 EVEN Team Wins the Rocky Mountain WEF/AWWA Student Design Competition A team of six EVEN students won the Second Annual Student Design Competition sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Water Environment Federation/American Water Works Association. The team members were (left to right in photo): Rishabh Iyer, John Craven, Leanne Miller, Brad Short, Jayson Ellis, and Sean Aronson. The students completed an alternatives assessment and preliminary design of an upgrade to the Metro Wastewater Treatment Facility to achieve BOD and nutrient removal at the South Complex. The work was completed as part of their capstone design course, CVEN 4434 Environmental Engineering Design, taught by Professor Angela Bielefeldt. Teams from Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Wyoming also participated in the competition. The students were judged on the basis of a written design binder and an oral presentation and question/answer session at Metro on May 1. The CU team will now be sent to compete in the National competition at WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation conference in Orlando, Florida, in October. Congratulations, CU team!
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May 2009 EVEN Team Wins the Halliburton Foundation Environmental Footprint Challenge The Halliburton Foundation sponsored a competition in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU-Boulder in Spring 2009 to develop technologies to reduce the environmental footprint of oil and gas extraction activities in Colorado. Two teams from the CVEN 4434 Environmental Engineering Design course taught by Professor Bielefeldt participated in the Challenge. The student teams were judged on their poster, oral presentation, and written design report. The team of Julie Korak (EVEN/CHEN), Kelly Colwell (EVEN), Robert Parker (EVEN/CHEN), and Ben Chittick (CHEN) won first place and a $20,000 team award. The group designed a process to control air pollution associated with natural gas extraction/processing. All four students graduated from CU in May 2009. The second team of Christina Barstow (CVEN), Jonathan Peterson (EVEN), Dania Zinner (EVEN), and Sarah Rosenbloom (CVEN) won Honorable Mention and $700 each. They determined a method to allow treatment of coal bed methane (CBM) produced water from the Piceance Basin to allow beneficial reuse in CBM drilling/fracturing and agricultural irrigation.
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May 2009 Julie Korak was selected as the Outstanding Outstanding Graduate of the College of Engineering in spring 2009. Julie is the first graduate of the Environmental Engineering (EVEN) program to be selected for this prestigous award, and gave a speech at the Engineering Graduation Recognition Ceremony on May 7. Julie also earned a second B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering (CHEN). In addition to her strong academics, Julie participated in a professional internship at Avon Products, worked on a research project studying zeolite membrane at CU with chemical engineering professor John Falconer, and served as a teaching assistant for GEEN 1300 Intro to Engineering Computing. She was actively engaged in two engineering honor societies. Julie studied abroad at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Julie also served as a tutor with the Herbst Academic Center. Julie represents a wonderful balance of all of the positive attributes of an engineering graduate: academic excellence and participation in research, teaching, and service activities.
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May 2009: Dania Zinner was selected as the "EVEN Outstanding Graduate" for 2009. Dania plans to attend graduate school at the University of Colorado at Denver in their sustainable infrastructure group. Congratulations, Dania! Read More
May 2008: Hallie Bevan was selected as the "EVEN Outstanding Graduate" for 2008. Hallie plans to work at Walsh Environmental in Boulder. Congratulations, Dania! Read More
January 3, 2007: Laurels Sessler became the new program assistant for the EVEN program.
She has worked for the University of Colorado for a number of years, and looks forward to learning about Environmental Engineering and assisting the program in student advising, ABET tracking, and recruiting.
September 1, 2006: Angela Bielefeldt became the new director for the EVEN program.
She follows the successful leadership of Joe Ryan, who lead EVEN through two successful ABET accreditations. The program is in the process of hiring a full time coordinator to replace Mary Yeager.
August 2006:
EVEN is re-accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and
Technology (ABET). Thank you to Professor Joe Ryan for writing the self study report in summer 2005 and all the faculty for contributing to another successful accreditation.
May 2006: Professor Joseph Ryan and his former graduate student were awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2006 National Notable Achievement Award in Washington, D.C. Over the previous four years, Ryan led more than a dozen graduate and undergraduate students in conducting an environmental analysis of acid mine drainage for the Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group. Their analysis found metal contamination in Lefthand Creek and traced it back to historic mines in the area. Link to full story
August 19-20, 2005: Orientation for new undergraduates
(first-year and transfer students) -- the
"Major Department" and
"Academic Expectations" presentations.
May, 2005: After five years of
indispensable service to the EVEN Program, Joan Hemm is leaving the
EVEN moving to Washington, where her husband took a new job.
Joan's position will be taken Mary Yaeger, who previously worked
with the Women in Engineering Program.
February, 2005: A new email list for EVEN
alumni has been created:
evenbsalumni@lists.colorado.edu. Information on joining
the list is available on the Alumni page.
May, 2004: Emily Schneider, an EVEN/CVEN
dual B.S. degree graduate, was named the "EVEN Outstanding Graduate"
for the 2003-2004 academic year. Congratulations, Emily!
October, 2003:
Andrew Azman, an EVEN senior, wins the David Brower Youth Award from
the Earth Island Institute. See more on the Students
page.
August, 2003:
Sam Booth, an EVEN senior, spent part of the summer of 2003 in Mongolia
examining the treatment of tannery wastewater. See more on the Students
page.
August, 2003:
EVEN is accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and
Technology (ABET)! We received official notification from ABET that
the Environmental Engineering Bachelor of Science degree is accredited.
Accreditation covers graduates retroactively to October, 2001.
May, 2003: Jaime Lehner was named the "EVEN
Outstanding Graduate" for the 2002-2003 academic year. Jaime
is headed for Berkeley to conduct research on air quality.
Congratulations, Jaime!
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