From left to right, Evan Flitz, Collin Sindt and Noah Smith, the three NDSEG honorees

Three chemical engineering PhD students earn Department of Defense fellowships

May 26, 2023

Evan Flitz, Collin Sindt and and Noah Smith have received 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (NDSEG), a prestigious Department of Defense award that recognizes and supports promising young scientists and engineers.

Kellisha Ostler

Educational on-ramps

May 17, 2023

CU Engineering has one overarching goal when it comes to educational partnerships: Empowering students to earn a degree in a way that best suits their needs when it comes to location, finances or learning environment.

Brad Wham with three members of his Lifelines team in front of broken pipes.

Brad Wham shares key findings from post-earthquake reconnaissance in Turkey

May 5, 2023

Brad Wham, assistant research professor in CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, was a member of one of the three Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the Feb. 6 Kahramanmara艧 earthquake.

Two students add CU 麻豆影院 lettering to the concrete canoe

Canceled concrete canoe competition doesn鈥檛 dampen CEAE students鈥 enthusiasm

May 3, 2023

This year 15 CU 麻豆影院 civil and architectural engineering students spent more than 60 hours constructing a concrete canoe. Despite the open water races being canceled due to cold temperatures, CU 麻豆影院 students did well in other ASCE competitions, taking second place in both the non-technical paper and innovation challenge and third place in both the technical paper and surveying competitions.

Charlie Nuttelman iwith his wife, Ella, and son, Logan, on top of Cirque Peak in the Canadian Rockies.

ChBE Professor Charlie Nuttelman wins university-wide award for passionate, engaging teaching

May 1, 2023

Known for making difficult material approachable and fun, ChBE Teaching Professor Charlie Nuttelman recently won the university-wide 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award. The award also recognizes his highly successful Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), soon to surpass 500,000 learners.

Karl Linden and Ben Ma wearing safety glasses in the lab.

Study shows personal disinfection device safe for use in public spaces

April 19, 2023

Ben Ma, a postdoctoral researcher in environmental engineering, was the first author on a paper that confirmed the safety of a new portable, handheld disinfecting device. The device emits a wavelength of ultraviolet light that is safe for disinfecting public spaces.

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ChBE seniors take home 25 percent of CEAS graduating student awards

April 18, 2023

Ten graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering earned Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.

Albert Velasco Abadia wearing a lab coat in the lab

PhD student honored for shape-changing 鈥渟mart鈥 materials research

April 14, 2023

PhD Student Albert Velasco Abadia was awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award for his research in using biological catalysts 鈥 also known as enzymes 鈥 for triggering shape reconfigurations in liquid crystal network "smart" materials.

Adam Holewinski

Adam Holewinski receives Fulbright to synthesize renewable fuels and chemicals

April 11, 2023

Adam Holewinski, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research efficient ways to produce sustainable chemical products and fuels using electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind.

Professor Evan Thomas stands next to a water treatment system installed at a school in Rwanda.

Capitalism caused climate change. Can capitalism also solve it?

March 29, 2023

Professor Evan Thomas will discuss CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 work to bring climate finance solutions to water quality challenges in the American West and East Africa at TedXCU on April 7 in Macky Auditorium.

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