Angela Bielefeldt

  • Professor
  • Director, Integrated Design Engineering Program
  • Registered P.E. (Colorado)
Angela Bielefeldt

Department: Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

Education: B.S., Iowa State University (1992), M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington (1994, 1996)
Teaching: CVEN 1317 Introduction to Civil Engineering, GEEN 1400 First-Year Engineering Projects, GEEN 3024 Materials Science for Engineers
Research: Engineering Education including social responsibility, ethics, sustainability, community engagement

Office: DLC 173B

Honors and Distinctions:

  • Woman Who Makes A Difference, Center for Inclusion & Social Change, CU Boulder, 2021
  • Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
  • University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar (lifetime guild appointment), 2019
  • Distinguished Achievement Award, Dept. Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering University of Colorado - Boulder, 2019
  • Best Paper Award from PIC IV and the Engineering Ethics Division of the American Society  for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Bielefeldt et al., 2019
  • Advisor for team of 5 EVEN seniors who won the regional Rocky Mountain Water Environment Assoc./AWWA Student Design competition, 2019
  • Best Paper Award from PIC IV and Engineering Ethics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, with co-authors M. Polmear, D. Knight, C. Swan and N. Canney, 2018
  • Best Paper Award from the Women in Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, with co-authors M. Forbes, J. Sullivan, and R. Littlejohn, 2018
  • Stephen Ressler Best Paper Award from the Civil Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2018
  • Best Paper Award from PIC I, nominated from Civil Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2017
  • Best Paper Award from First-Year Programs Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, with co-authors Polmear, Knight, Canney, and Swan, 2017
  • Best Paper Award from PIC IV and Engineering Ethics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, with co-author N. Canney, 2016
  • Best Paper Award from American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference; N. Canney. A. Bielefeldt, M. Russu. Liberal Education / Engineering & Society Division, PIC III, and Best Overall Paper,  2015
  • Best Paper Award, Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2015
  • Outstanding Service Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 2012
  • Best Paper Award from American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Annual Conference with co-authors K. Paterson and C. Swan.  Environmental Division, PIC II, and Best Overall Paper, 2009
  • Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)/McGraw-Hill Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering & Science, 2004
  • Rudolf Hering Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the best paper in the Journal of Environmental Engineering, with co-authors Stensel and Strand, 1997

Recent Publications
** denotes work done in collaboration with graduate students
* denotes work done in collaboration with undergraduate students

  • **Komarek R., Bielefeldt A.R., and Knight D.W., 2021. Influences of Engineering Students’ College Experiences on Leadership Skill Assurance. International Journal of Engineering Education. 37 (5), 1454-1465.
  • **Komarek R., Bielefeldt A.R., and Knight D.W., 2021. Multirater Feedback of Leadership of Underrepresented Groups in a Civil Engineering Capstone Design Course. Journal of Civil Engineering Education. 147 (4), https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643-9115.0000049.
  • **Harper J., Bielefeldt A., Javernick-Will A., Dickinson K., Veasna T., Kozole T., and Nicoletti C., 2021. Household Preferences for Rural Fecal Sludge Management Services in Cambodia: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c04636.
  • Bielefeldt, A.R., **Polmear M., Knight D., Canney N., and Swan C., 2021. Educating engineers to work ethically with global marginalized communities. Environmental Engineering Science. 38 (5), 320-330. DOI 10.1089/ees.2020.0269.
  • **Polmear M., Bielefeldt A.R., Knight D., Swan C., and Canney N., 2020. Exploratory Investigation of Personal Influences on Educators’ Engagement in Engineering Ethics and Societal Impacts Instruction. Science and Engineering Ethics. 26 (6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00261-x
  • Bielefeldt A.R., *Lewis J., **Polmear M., Knight D., Canney N., and Swan C., 2020. Educating Civil Engineering Students about Ethics and Societal Impacts via Co-curricular Activities. Journal of Civil Engineering Education. 146 (4) DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643-9115.0000021
  • Canney N. and Bielefeldt A.R., 2020. Collegiate service engagement correlations with engineering job selection and satisfaction. International Journal of Service Learning in Engineering. 15 (1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v15i1.13538