Chemical Engineering
Bart Carpenter (ChemEng’81) was named the Chemical and Biological Engineering 2025 Distinguished Alumni Mentor of the Year for his dedicated mentorship of first-year student Sam Wiesenauer. A longtime advisory board member and mentor, Carpenter shares decades of industry insight to help students navigate careers in energy and engineering.
Hermann Klein-Hessling Barrientos faced challenges with housing, medical and food insecurity, yet overcame them to earn the College of Engineering and Applied Science Perseverance Award as well as the college’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award.
The National Science Foundation has bestowed six prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards to University of Colorado Boulder engineering students.The national awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from across the
CU Boulder took home first place in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Chem-E-Car competition, securing CU Boulder a spot at the national AIChE competition in Boston this November.
Assistant Professors Kōnane Bay and Ankur Gupta from CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering each received a $450,000, three-year grant to advance research relevant to the U.S. Air Force.