Fall 2019 Issue

For the second installment of the Dean’s Speaker Series , Bobby Braun sat down for a chat with Kristina Johnson, chancellor of the largest university system in the nation (State University of New York) and a former Obama appointee in the U.S. Department of Energy. The two discussed her experiences...

The Engineering Center holds fond memories for CU Boulder alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs and spent hours writing their dissertations together over coffee in the lobby. So it’s fitting that, in recognition of the couple’s recent gift to the College of...

From left: Trevor Stanley, Chris Coffey, Will Shand, Cory Cranford and Gerano Montoya. CU Boulder was among only six universities invited to present an innovative network security concept in June as part of Starts H4D, a pitch competition for cutting-edge national security solutions. The group presented at Founders Fund, a...

Our students need more than technical knowledge to impact today’s increasingly complex society. Business & Engineering Expansion Business and engineering leadership, students and friends celebrated the official groundbreaking on June 5 of a $45 million addition that will physically connect the two CU Boulder academic and research powerhouses. In 2020,...

Good news for students looking to pursue careers in the biomedical industry: New undergraduate and graduate degrees in biomedical engineering could launch as early as fall 2020. The CU Board of Regents approved the new degrees in the College of Engineering and Applied Science in June. Through these bachelor’s, master’s...

Herbst Lesser House Thirty years ago, a gift from Clancy and Linda (Vitti) Herbst created the Herbst Program of Humanities in Engineering. Since then, the program has been committed to helping students develop a personal sense of responsibility as the basis for lifelong private and professional integrity. After deliberations among...

Two recent gifts from Ball Corp. and its foundation will support the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building and scholarships for diverse students through the BOLD Center . “Ball Corporation is a leader in so many ways in our community, and we’re thankful for their partnership in developing the workforce of...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited CU Boulder in August to tour the new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building and LASP, and to hold meetings with university leadership, local industry and government representatives. He also hosted a Q&A session with CU Engineering students in the aerospace building.

Alumni event puts spotlight on cybersecurity The college held its first Leading With Impact alumni speaker series events this spring in California’s Bay Area, focusing on a hot topic: cybersecurity. “There is a lot of energy in that field here at the college right now because of the newly reorganized...

New faculty attending Faculty Orientation 2019 CU Engineering has hired 66 tenure-track faculty and more than 35 instructional faculty members in the past three years – a hiring rate almost unheard of in higher education. “We’re very excited to see how this new group innovates in research and teaching at...