Projects

In this Washington Post article, Professor Mark Hernandez advocates for installing HEPA air cleaners in homes, especially with smoke from Canadian wildfires now blanketing the northeastern United States. “I look at them (air purifiers) as the seat belts for lungs," he said. Hernandez is helping to install these filters in schools across the state in partnership with Colorado’s Clean Air for Schools program.

Water Resources Professor Balaji Rajagopalan grew up in a small railroad town near Hyderabad, India, in a home without running water. Now an expert in hydrology, climatology and water resources, Rajagopalan was recently honored with a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship and an opportunity to make a difference in his native country.

Mortenson Center Director Evan Thomas leads Virridy, which is working to connect the global carbon credit market to water treatment.

"We have areas that are producing too much solar or too much wind at certain points, and we just don’t have not enough load or demand to use it," said Assistant Professor Kyri Baker. "So if we install more lines to pipe that power where it needs to go, the the grid’s just going to become more efficient."

CEAE Professors Angela R. Bielefeldt and Amy Javernick-Will recently received seed grants for individual projects through the Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning Interdisciplinary Research Theme. The award is given to help spur research teaming in the college and boost early projects with the high potential for societal impact.

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science. The article was coauthored by Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Associate Professor Ben Livneh, both from CU Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. Fangfang Yao, a CIRES visiting scholar, was the lead author.

In this episode of "Parched," CPR's podcast about people who rely on the river that shaped the West and have ideas to save it, Research Professor Edith Zagona explains what it would take to bring more water to the Colorado River states from the Mississippi River.

Ava Spangler is the winner of the Milo S. Ketchum Award and Spencer Chuck is a runner up. The award is given to an outstanding graduate and up to two runners up receiving a BS degree in civil or architectural engineering in the spring semester.

This will be our last DEI minute until the Fall 2023 semester! Thank you to all those who contributed content and to those who’ve read these minutes. The CEAE Department is excited to announce an inaugural photo contest! We welcome students, staff, and faculty to submit an original photo representing...

Two graduating architectural engineering seniors earned Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year and shared their thoughts about their experiences at CU Boulder.