College News 2021

May 5, 2021

Protecting our Engineering Buffs Read about CU Engineering鈥檚 research efforts and actions to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic: Research breakthroughs Return to Research series Stories of resilience in the COVID-19 era series CU Engineering & COVID-19 GPS pioneer inducted into National Academy of Sciences Kristine Larson became the first GPS...

Cracking the Code

May 4, 2021

Check out how our faculty members are leveraging computing in innovative research projects across engineering disciplines. College announces three new interdisciplinary research themes The College of Engineering and Applied Science recently launched three interdisciplinary research themes as part of a broad push into growing and critical areas of study. The...

Mapping a Vision for UAVs

April 23, 2021

Recent Alumni Award winner finds success with robotics startup. I'm attracted by the concept of building things that last without having to be repaired or fixed or upgraded. Nima Keivan Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of CANVAS Technology Like many kids, Nima Keivan (PhDCompSci鈥17) enjoyed music. Well, destroying it, anyway...

Computing for All

April 23, 2021

CU alumni Terry Hogan and Lucy Sanders are leading the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Terry Hogan Lucy Sanders For as long as she can remember, Terry Hogan (CompSci鈥94) has advocated for women achieving financial self-sufficiency, and she believes technology is the most powerful path to that goal...

IoT Think Tank

April 23, 2021

Industry-academic research collaboration looks to the future of Internet-connected devices. Danny Dig Executive Director Shivakant Mishra Professor Bor-Yuh Evan Chang Associate Professor Every second, 127 new Internet of Things devices 鈥 thermostats, TVs, medical devices and much more 鈥 are connected to the Internet. By the end of this year,...

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'It Keeps you Humble'

April 22, 2021

High-stakes Subterranean Challenge puts CU 麻豆影院 robotics team to the test. Michael Ohradzansky at the starting line of the Washington challenge course. For mechanical engineering PhD candidate Michael Miles, participating in the national Subterranean Challenge robotics competition has provided real-world experience he might not otherwise have gotten during his graduate...

On the Grid

April 22, 2021

Researchers tackle climate change with algorithms to optimize energy use. We have a unique and valuable opportunity to collaborate with the national renewable energy laboratory. Kyri Baker Kaitlyn Garifi in the classroom with a student When we flip a switch, the light bulb comes on. We don鈥檛 think about whether...

Taking Ownership

April 21, 2021

Chris Heckman Assistant Professor Shilo Brooks Director, Engineering Leadership Program Shaz Zamore Head of STEAM outreach at ATLAS Ethical technology requires new approaches to education, research and inclusion. For the first few decades of the computing age, computers were monolithic machines in big places, out of reach for most of...

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Innovation All-Nighters

April 21, 2021

Hackathons give students a chance to explore and network, all in a fun atmosphere. It鈥檚 essentially an invention marathon. Twelve to 36 hours of building and connecting with other developers. Zahraa Abbasi Director of HackCU The term 鈥渉ackathon鈥 might elicit images of people breaking into CIA mainframes, but the reality...

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Computer Science at 50

April 9, 2021

The department has become known for championing collaboration and diversity in the computing field. Ken Anderson Chair Bobby Schnabel Chair When the Department of Computing Science 鈥 soon renamed Computer Science 鈥 was established at CU 麻豆影院 in 1970, no one anticipated how ubiquitous computing would soon become. Fifty years...