CU Engineering Students, Faculty Create Solutions to Real-World Problems

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College isn’t the real world—or is it?

Students and faculty in CU-Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science are creating innovations and inventions to solve a wide array of problems in the world today.

Undergraduates start doing engineering for society in their very first year—in the college’s innovative First Year Projects Course—and continuing through their senior capstone design course, in which they pull together everything they have learned in four years to develop a real-world project.

Faculty set the tone by advising students on their design projects and spending time in the laboratory on leading-edge research. Their research not only informs their teaching, but helps to solve some of the world’s most difficult challenges.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science is ranked among the top 20 to 25 public engineering schools in the nation, and its graduate specialty programs in aerospace and chemical engineering are in the top 10.

Following is a sampling of recent achievements:

Student Innovations and Achievements

• 17-Year-Old CU-Boulder Student Wins $250,000 Graduate School Fellowship
• CU-Boulder Engineering Days to Feature Egg Drop, Rocket Launch, and Culminate in Design Expo - April 20
• CU Doctoral Students Win $10,000 Top Prize in National Business Competition for Social Entrepreneurship
• CU Engineering Students Build, Test High-Mileage Concept Car
• CU-Boulder Students Win First Place in National Nanosatellite Competition

Faculty Innovations and Achievements

• Novel CU-Boulder Technique Shrinks Size of Nanotechnology Circuitry
• Public Turning to Social Media Sources for Information During Disasters and Major Events, CU-Boulder Researchers Find
• CU-Boulder Researchers Develop New 3-D Platform for Growing Cells
• CU-Boulder Faculty, Students to Participate in National Study on Tornado Formation
• $5 Million Endowment to Support CU Engineering for Developing Communities Program
• CU-Boulder Professor Kristi Anseth Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Ion Engineering to Commercialize University of Colorado Carbon-Capture Technology
• LineRate Systems to Commercialize CU Software Acceleration Technology

Contact Information

Carol Rowe
303-492-7426
Engineering Communications