CU Engineering Weekly Digest - Oct. 2, 2021
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CU’s MARBLE team – including faculty members Sean Humbert, Chris Heckman and Eric Frew – took home third place late last week in the finals of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, a high-stakes, multi-year competition. CU’s team is a $4.5 million collaboration led by the College of Engineering and Applied Science through the Autonomous Systems Interdisciplinary Research Theme.
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- Bay Area Alumni Network members (pictured above) gathered at a restaurant in Palo Alto on Wednesday evening for networking and a presentation by Engineering Leadership Program Faculty Director Shilo Brooks.
- Jim Baldwin (ArchEngr’59) recently established the James R. Baldwin Endowed Scholarship in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The award will provide annual support for incoming freshmen from Denver's North High School who demonstrate financial need.
- Two CU Engineering postdocs – Constance Crozier of civil, environmental & architectural engineering and Omkar Supekar of electrical, computer & energy engineering – were honored last week with campus Outstanding Postdoc Awards.