Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Department News - January 27, 2025
We welcome your submissions for our weekly newsletter for faculty, staff, and graduate students. Please send a brief paragraph with what you'd like included to Carolanne Ayers before noon on Thursday to be included in the following week's newsletter!
Department News
Al Bovick Seminar/No Department Meeting This Week!
There will be no department meeting on Thursday, January 30th. Instead, Al Bovik will be giving a seminar. Please plan to attend. Lunch will be provided!
Request for Nominations for the 2025 Colorado Engineering Council Silver Medal Award
Nominations are open for the 2025 Colorado Engineering Council (CEC) Silver Medal Award, honoring graduating seniors for exceptional achievements in academics, extracurricular activities, and community service. Each ABET-accredited program and its student societies can nominate one senior per degree.
Eligibility:
- May 2025 graduates with at least a 3.500 GPA.
- BS/MS students are eligible in the year they complete BS requirements.
- Finalists must attend interviews this semester.
Submit ECEE student nominations to Marco Nicotra by Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Faculty Announcements
Course Support Hiring
The final deadline for course support hiring in Spring 2025 is January 29th. Please email Kim MacGregor with any last-minute student hires as soon as possible.
Course Scheduling Update
The Fall 2025 Schedule has now been finalized and submit to the Registrar’s office. Thank you all for your support throughout the submission process. Please email Kim MacGregor if you have any questions.
Celebrating PhD Milestones
Congratulations to ECEE PhD student Jan Bartos for successfully defending his PhD thesis on January 10!
Congratulations to ECEE PhD student Yijun Xie for successfully defending his PhD thesis on January 10!
Aoife Henry, a doctoral candidate in electrical, computer and energy engineering will compete as a finalist for the Three Minute Thesis Competition on Feb. 13, 2025. Her presentation’s title is, “Directing Turbine with Foresight: The Shepard and the Sheepdog find a Crystal Ball.”
Free bookcase up for grabs!
There is a large, wooden bookcase in the ECEE 1B55 breakroom that is available for faculty to use in their labs. Please let Robin McClanahan know before the end of January if you would like to have it.
Student News
The annual ETS Summer Internship Program and Student Scholarships are available for 2025!
The Robert (Bob) Moses Scholarship: supports the educational goal of a graduate student from an underrepresented group who is pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in mathematics education or STEM discipline.
Scholarship Award: $15,000
Application Portal Opened: January 15, 2025
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
Winner Notified: June 2025
The ETS Cares Scholarships: 100% funded by donations from ETS employees for students who, despite facing considerable personal challenges, overcame and achieved academic excellence. More than $1 million in scholarships have been awarded since the program's inception in 2011.
Application Portal Opens: February 1, 2025
Application Deadline: March 15, 2025
Recipients Announced: June 2025
Apply for the Futures Fellowship for Graduate Student Parents
The Futures Fellowship provides $3,000 in financial assistance to exceptional graduate student parents at CU Boulder, recognizing their unique challenges and supporting their academic and parenting responsibilities.
Eligibility:
- Full-time CU Boulder graduate students (MBA, CE, online, and Law students are ineligible).
- Must be a parent with dependent children (legal dependents only).
- Demonstrate financial need with documentation (e.g., FAFSA, tax returns).
- Maintain a minimum 3.2 GPA and show academic progress.
- Submit a personal statement detailing challenges as a student parent and how they’ve been overcome.
Apply by March 1, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. via this link. Emailed applications will not be accepted.
IT News
Secure Computing Initiative
The campus is implementing an initiative to make computing on campus more secure. CEAS is aggressively pursuing this initiative. ECEE is in the first phase of the initiative which is working with OIT to understand the scope and details of the project. This initiative entails that ECEE staff will work with every faculty member, graduate student working in labs, and each staff employee to identify every computer in use in offices and labs and record the requested information. The start date has not yet been determined. Update notices will be put in this newsletter and announcements made during department meetings. Questions about this initiative should be directed to Robin.Elliott@colorado.edu.
IT Support
IT Support
- Teaching Labs (Capstone, Embedded Systems, Power Lab, Optics, RF, Highspeed Measurements, Circuits) IT Support: http://itll.link/servicedesk
- Research Labs License Server Support: support@craftypenguins.net
- Research Computing: https://www.colorado.edu/rc/
- Research License Server (ecee-flexlm-2.colorado.edu): Submit a request to: support@craftypenguins.net
- Conference Rooms ECEE 1B55 & 1B45: Send an email to ECEE IT support: http://itll.link/servicedesk
- IT Service Center: Contact the IT Service Center (303-735-4357 or help@colorado.edu) for help with all OIT services including email and IdentiKey, Internet connectivity and other technology-related questions.
- Buff Techs Desktop Support: OIT provides no-cost software support for laptop and desktop workstations to faculty, staff, and students. You can also register your laptop to aid in recovery in case it is lost or stolen.
- Dedicated Desktop Support: Departmental IT Support customized for your needs.
- Network Troubleshooting: Submit this form to report network connectivity issues on campus.
- Classroom Technology Problem Reporting form: Submit this form to report an issue with technology malfunctioning in a classroom (except for the ECEE classrooms – contact Bret.Moreland@colorado or 303-503-7939 for support)
- Self-Service Help Request: Submit a request directly to the ITSC using ServiceNow
- Lightboard: Contact Andy Garcia, Andrew.Garcia-3@colorado.edu, in the Mechanical Engineering department for scheduling and technical assistance
- OIT Website https://oit.colorado.edu/support
- All other issues, contact Robin.McClanahan@colorado.edu or 303-492-6736.