Articles by College of Engineering and Applied Science

The American Society of Civil Engineers board of directors has established the Dan M. Frangopol Medal for Life-Cycle Engineering of Civil Structures in honor of Dan Frangopol, a distinguished CU Boulder professor emeritus with a significant career in the university’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.

Award-winning artist Danielle SeeWalker is the creative force behind two new beautiful murals at the CU Engineering Center, blending together science, art and Indigenous culture.

CU Boulder faculty and students are advancing award-winning research on autonomous robots that can navigate challenging conditions.

As part of a major federal endeavor to combat climate change, CU Boulder is advancing marine carbon dioxide removal techniques to cut harmful greenhouse gasses by providing new methods for monitoring verification and reporting.

Imagine being able to measure tiny changes in the flow of time caused by Earth’s gravity with atomic clocks atop one of Colorado’s iconic peaks. That could soon be a reality thanks to an NSF grant that will advance geodesy through the use of quantum sensors, some of the most precise in the world.

CU Boulder was chosen to join the new Learning Engineering Virtual Institute with the aim of doubling the rate of middle school math learning within five years by building a hybrid human-AI tutoring platform that will reach over 275,000 diverse, low-income students.

CU Boulder’s chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society participated in the 2023 First Nations Launch as the “CU Trailblazers,” sweeping first place in all their categories and a grand prize trip to the Kennedy Space Center.

Erika Antunez, a fifth-year integrated design engineering student and vice president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, shares her academic and personal story of grit and success through community.

CU Boulder has earned a major award to ensure American soldiers, businesses and non-governmental organizations can use 5G cellular networks in foreign countries without hostile network operators being able to extract user information.

With the construction of increasingly taller dams, Assistant Professor Yida Zhang is concerned about the potential effects of soil grain breakage caused by pressure. He recently received a prestigious CAREER award to fund his research on the evolution of grain sizes in dams.