Faculty
- How can you keep your indoor air quality healthy if you鈥檙e stuck at home amid a global pandemic?
Professor Shelly Miller of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program has been tackling these and other questions in her Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering class. - If humanity had a blank landscape, how would people build things? Assistant Professor Wil Srubar explains the benefits and potential of engineered living materials in The Conversation.
- Wil Srubar, an assistant professor in civil, environmental and architectural engineering and CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Materials Science and Engineering Program, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award 鈥 one of the most prestigious awards for young faculty.
- Researchers from CU 麻豆影院 have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date, by layering cells and using a unique combination of elements.
- Unsafe drinking water and household air pollution are major causes of illness and death around the world Associate Professor Evan Thomas writes in The Conversation.
- A CU 麻豆影院 and Millennium Water Alliance-led program committed to ending humanitarian drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa has been named one of the Top 100 in the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition, and remains in the running for the competition鈥檚 award of a single $100 million grant.
- Research leadership in the college is encouraging any and all faculty 鈥 no matter their rank, department or research area 卢鈥 to submit a proposal for a new Interdisciplinary Research Theme to start this summer. Find out how.
- As program director, Sieber will guide one of the college鈥檚 signature programs, which provides seminar-style courses for engineering students that explore technology and ethics through the lens of literature, history, philosophy and global perspectives.
- She is one of only five women in the world, and the only recipient in North America, to receive the recognition this year.
- Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram sees nature as a giant catalogue of design ideas. Engineers can 鈥渓eaf through鈥 it to see how various species have overcome problems鈥搈any of the solutions exquisitely developed over time to perfection.