Articles by Emily Adams

Tietjen has spent years doing her part to advocate for and recognize women, both in engineering and in fields like filmmaking. That advocacy, combined with her own professional accomplishments, earned her induction into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010. This month, the Hall of Fame is collaborating with Rocky Mountain PBS for a video series highlighting several of their inductees, including Tietjen.

Since departing CU Boulder after a 30-year tenure, Bobby Schnabel has added some impressive titles to his resume, including CEO of the Association for Computing Machinery and dean of Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing. Now, he’s returning to CU to add a few more: Research and Innovation Office...

A group shot of the Frontiers of Engineering attendees. Bobby Braun is in the front row, second from the right, and Khurram Afridi is in the center of the third row. For electric vehicles to become mainstream, Khurram Afridi thinks they need more advanced batteries and faster charging times. So...

Dean Bobby Braun leads a school-wide assembly at Monte Vista High School. As part of our vision for CU Engineering, we want to reach out to all corners of Colorado to find the best and brightest students who reflect the state’s diverse demographics. To begin making that happen, Dean Bobby...

CU Engineering has jumped two spots in U.S. News and World Report’s list of best undergraduate engineering programs , coming in at No. 16 among public institutions and No. 30 overall for 2018. Three programs within engineering also landed top 20 spots in individual program rankings: Smead Aerospace : No...

When he was a student at CU Boulder, David Gupta (ArchEngr’85) was focused on building a career as a lighting engineer. He joined his family’s engineering firm, Environmental Systems Design , after graduation and fully expected to continue on an engineering track. Instead, he became one of many engineers who...

That’s a wrap from the Bridges to Prosperity Swaziland team! The team reports that despite working sunup to sundown on their last planned work day, the bridge still was not 100 percent complete. Rather than having a celebration for an unfinished bridge, they decided to have one final work day...

A rendering of the lobby renovation showing the new cafe space. If you’re working or taking summer classes in the Engineering Center, you’ve probably noticed that it’s been even harder than usual to navigate the building. The good news is, it’s only temporary! The lobby will be closed for most...

When Bernard Amadei, professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, took a group of students to a rural village in Belize to install a water pump in 2001, he had no intention of founding Engineers Without Borders USA or developing a curriculum for engineering in developing communities at CU Boulder...