Student News

While growing up in a small rural town, Emma Andreasen wasn’t exposed to computing. Today, she's a teaching assistant for the Intro to Engineering Computing course, which uses an array of programming tools, and a recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate of the College Award.

CU Boulder’s Solar Decathlon team, in partnership with Flatirons Habitat for Humanity, has broken ground on a net-zero energy home that is part of the...

Mission Zero is highlighting the work of the University of Colorado Boulder Solar Decathlon team. The student team is preparing to build an affordable, energy-efficient home as part of a U.S. Department of Energy college competition. Mission Zero, a Boulder-based climate advocacy group that works with CU Boulder students, has...

Graduating senior and BOLD Scholar Joelle Westcott (CivEngr'22) has been recognized by the College of Engineering with a Global Engagement Award and a Research Award for her engineering photography and research projects . What is your major? What interested you in that major? My major is Civil Engineering with an...

A team of CU Boulder students took 3rd place in the 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers Rocky Mountain Region Student Symposium Competition. The event was held April 8-9 in Golden and features a series of technical paper and design competitions, in addition to a series of races featuring...

Two students in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering have earned a major honor from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. Jasmine Garland and Martin Torres have each...

Briar Goldwyn is a fourth-year PhD student researching multi-hazard housing safety and disaster risk reduction in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the Construction and Engineering Management program at CU Boulder. She recently returned from fieldwork in Puerto Rico and has been active there for years through...

University of Colorado Boulder students are building a canoe out of concrete. The CU Boulder student chapter for the American Society of Civil Engineers are constructing their concrete canoe in preparation for the 2022 ASCE Rocky Mountain Student Symposium in Golden, CO, where they will compete against other university teams...

The University of Colorado Boulder earned 2nd place in the 2022 Colorado Contractors Association (CCA) Heavy Civil Competition. The team, named "Ralphie's Builders", competed at the CCA Annual Conference on Jan. 27. The annual competition calls for teams of students to...

An interdisciplinary team of students are building a super energy-efficient home for a national competition, and they need your help to be successful...