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Every year, David DeCook (ArchEngr ’71) hosts a dinner for new recipients of his architectural engineering scholarship. When he meets them, he likes to issue a challenge. “We want you to try to do the same we’re doing for you,” he tells them. “You’re going to make good bucks, and we want you to try to repay it down the line.”

Undergraduate engineering programs are not known for being flexible. Research shows engineering students get about 2 percent of their degree credit hours to devote to free electives, compared to almost a quarter of credit hours for their non-engineering peers. In 2013, the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU...

CU-Boulder engineers aim to turn America’s dirty water into cleaner air, energy for industry

Computing speed takes a giant leap forward thanks to a new photonics-based microchip

CU drones target severe storms to improve tornado forecasts

Aaron Clauset is an assistant professor of computer science and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at CU-Boulder. He recently accepted the 2016 Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science, which is an international prize awarded annually to a researcher under 40 who has made fundamental contributions to the advancement of network science...

CU-Boulder’s second biggest college enrolled record numbers of first-year women and underrepresented minorities in 2015-16, and preliminary figures suggest it will reach yet a new milestone in the fall. The number of first-year undergraduate women in the College of Engineering & Applied Science rose 17 percent last year, to 284,...

Last year the former law library of the Fleming Building was transformed into a new collaborative space designated for students to imagine, design, create and test products and solutions to meet a range of needs. Billed as the Idea Forge, this 22,000-square-foot facility is an innovative engineering facility built to...

The University of Colorado Boulder recognized six outstanding engineering alumni for contributions to their fields and to the university at a banquet April 22. The recipients of the 2016 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards are: • Frank T. Buzzard of Bryan, Texas; • Paul T. Hamilton of Boulder; • Moriba K...