Design For America

Finding Community: Design group puts skills to work solving local problems

June 13, 2019

From developing a system to reduce food waste to constructing a way to prevent tool theft at public bike repair stations, students in the Design for America organization at CU Boulder are working on a wide range of projects with community partners.

Srivastava and Waelde at the celebration to dedicate the Engineering Center lobby in their names in honor of their scholarship gift.

Diversity drivers: Couple hopes scholarship gift will boost inclusion efforts

May 9, 2019

The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for CU Boulder alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs – his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology – when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.

Sarah Withee (at right) holds spring 2018 CUE3 satellite

Learning to speak new languages: Japanese professor turns satellite engineer

May 4, 2019

Amidst a fruitful career as a language professor and technologist, Sarah Withee joined Gen Z and Millenial students to become an electrical engineer.

The three Global Engineering Award winners pose with Mortenson Center staff and the college's dean, Bobby Braun.

Student-run symposium features first Global Engineering Awards

April 12, 2019

The Mortenson Center surprised its founding director, Distinguished Professor Bernard Amadei, with the Global Engineering Humanitarian Award during the event.

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Erika Bailon, CompSci'20

April 10, 2019

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I chose the engineering program at CU Boulder because the day I came for a campus tour, it just felt right. I fell in love with the campus, and the environment. In addition, the ranking of the Computer Science program here...

Matthew Hoffman's Go For It inflatable sculpture

Go For It encourages synergies between art and engineering at CU Boulder

Feb. 25, 2019

This week an inflatable version of Go For It , a creation of the Chicago-based, internationally recognized artist Matthew Hoffman , is on display in the south quad of the Engineering Center at CU Boulder. Hoffman, who became famous for the You Are Beautiful project, was invited to CU Engineering...

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Being BOLDer: The BOLD Center celebrates 10 years of supporting women and minorities in engineering

Nov. 16, 2018

The BOLD Center turns 10 years old and the College of Engineering and Applied Science celebrates nearly half a decade of supporting women and minorities in science, technology and engineering.

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"I'm A Better Engineer as a Woman." - Connie Childs

Nov. 15, 2018

On CUE sits down with Connie Childs. Connie is a fourth-year aerospace engineer studying at CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science. After years of contemplating life as a woman Connie began to transition from her assigned at birth male identity to the woman she is today. Today we'll...

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Asmita Dhakal, CompSci'20

Oct. 15, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I was exposed to CU Engineering when I got invited to attend a week long program @ CU Boulder called ASPIRE though the BOLD center before attending my first semester @ CU. In the one week span I came to love...

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CU Boulder Engineering deepens connection to community college faculty and students

Sept. 24, 2018

Last week the University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science was awarded its second National Science Foundation (NSF) grant this month to build new connections with Colorado community colleges. The newest project is a three-year grant for $600,000 awarded through the NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program.

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