Students
- CU Engineering joined forces with Colorado State University to host more than 300 engineering students from across the nationk for the Engineering Leadership Summit. Building community was key concern among all attendees.
- When his grandma took a devastating fall using a walker, Timothy Visos-Ely channeled his love and concern into a brilliant idea: digitally enhanced walkers that would help seniors correct user errors before they result in dangerous mishaps.
The Stride Tech team won the 2019 New Venture Challenge (NVC) and walked out of the Boulder Theater with $100,000 toward their invention and the opportunity to hobnob with venture capitalists, business leaders and more. Stride Tech was one of two undergraduate teams in the NVC finals, CU Boulder’s premier entrepreneurial startup competition, after emerging as the winner of the hardware track. - The Buffs athletic teams will have to take a rest day on April 26 – the engineers are taking over.The second-annual Engineering Projects Expo will be setting up shop in the Indoor Practice Facility next to Folsom Stadium. The
- When high school students from rural Colorado research air quality as it relates to the things that interest them most, the result is enthusiastic students and one-of-a-kind projects. CU Boulder’s Air Quality Inquiry project, supported by a CU Boulder Outreach Award, pairs students with undergraduate mentors.
- Four teams with ties to the College of Engineering and Applied Science will compete Wednesday for the top prize.
- Transfer Summit unites ColoradoLeaders from the Colorado Community College System office, representatives from many of the state’s 2- and 4-year institutions, and the Department of Higher Education gathered on March 15 to collaborate on strategies
- TissueForm seeks to help patients suffering from tissue disease, damage or aging through its simple, low-cost and long-lasting dermal filler technology. Their technology, called the ClayMatrix™, originated from research that fourth-year PhD student Jeanne Barthold performed in the Mechanical Engineering Department's Neu Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab.
- After his grandmother sustained injuries from a fall and struggled back to health, Tim Visos-Ely, Stride Tech CEO and Engineering Plus senior, was inspired to come up with a solution for safer senior care.
- The team is creating a revolutionary software platform that helps catering companies keep their events efficiently staffed.
- PhD candidate Andrew Dahir of Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences is the proud record-holder of two new Guinness World Records for climbing. Here, he describes his successful attempts to break the records in September 2018—and how engineering and climbing have shown him the "ropes" for tackling any challenge.