Overview
Faculty Profile
- Faculty (tenured or tenure-track): 20 (2 joint with Chemistry)
- Number of peer-reviewed publications per faculty per year: 6
- Number of research presentations per faculty per year: 15
- Average sponsored research funding per faculty per year: $500,000
Graduate Student Profile
- Students: 85 (more than 95% are full-time PhD students)
- Undergraduate backgrounds: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Materials Science, Nutrition, Physics, Polymer Science
Faculty Excellence in Research
- 15 of the 18 faculty have won one or more major national research awards
- Major research awards: AIChe Professional Progress Award (1), National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Faculty Fellow (1), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator (1; the only HHMI Investigator from an engineering discipline), AIChE Colburn Award (1), NSF Presidential Young Investigator (4), NSF CAREER Award (3), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (3), Camille-Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (3), National Institutes of Health (NIH) FIRST Award (2), Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator (2), Guggen Fellow (2), American Society for Engineering Education Dow Lectureship (1)
Faculty Excellence in Teaching
- 12 of the 18 faculty have won one or more national or university teaching awards
- Major teaching awards: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (3), University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholars (1; these awards are granted to less than 1% of the total university faculty), Outstanding Faculty Award from the Rocky Mountain Section of the American Society of Engineering Education (7)
Graduate Student Excellence
- Danielle Benoit Receives the Society for Biomaterial's Outstanding Graduate Research Award
- Luis Hakim Receives 1st Place for the 2006 AIChE Poster Session
- NSF Graduate Fellows: 5
- NASA Graduate Researchers: 3
- NIH Fellows: 8
- Department of Education GAANN Fellows: 30
- Current alumni faculty members: 24
- PhD employment rate: 100%
- University of Colorado Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards: > 30
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