Roger McNamara

Roger McNamara (MAeroEngr’86, PhD’95)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, 2020 Category: Industry & Commerce Roger McNamara’s notable contributions to the aerospace industry and community over his 40-year career include early research into and characterization of the hazards of orbital debris to space vehicles and operations, and potential mitigation strategies; improvements in space vehicle design and...

Mark Strobel

Mark Strobel (MChemEngr’79)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce​ Mark Strobel joined 3M Co. in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1979 after receiving his MS in chemical engineering at CU Boulder and his BS in chemistry from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He has spent his entire career in...

Dena Lund

Dena Lund (ChemEngr'89)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce Dena Lund is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Sterling Energy Investments LLC. In addition to her full-time job at Sterling, she is also an Independent Director for Anvil Corporation. Throughout her time at Sterling, Lund has taken the...

David Gupta

David Gupta (ArchEngr'85)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce David A. Gupta founded SDI in 1996 and today continues to lead the firm as chief executive officer. The company is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Sacramento and Los Angeles and has served some of the largest and most complex utilities,...

Subterranean drone competition

Drones go underground in high-stakes competition

Feb. 6, 2020

Roughly one story belowground, in an undisclosed location in Boulder County, close to a dozen engineers hustle up and down a series of utility tunnels.

3D printing in space with gregory whiting

CU researchers to explore 3D printing in reduced gravity with NASA grant

Feb. 4, 2020

Associate Professor Gregory Whiting and his research group are preparing for the thrill of a lifetime: two parabolic flights, each expected to provide around ten total minutes of reduced gravity to test and model how 3D printing of functional materials works in lunar gravity.

Carpenter and Randolph portraits

A rare honor in pharmaceutical sciences: Journal dedicated to professors John Carpenter and Ted Randolph

Feb. 4, 2020

The January 2020 Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences issue was dedicated to John Carpenter, PhD of CU Anschutz and Ted Randolph, PhD of the CU Boulder Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

Hima Boddupalli, Computer Science 2020

Hima Boddupalli, CompSci'20

Feb. 2, 2020

Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I was actually here for the Data Science field before I got interested in Cybersecurity! I also wanted to take a class with Professor Jim Martin, whose textbook I studied from in my undergraduate. It was my dream that came true in...

people working together at a table

BOLD Center granted $120,000 for underrepresented minority student scholarships

Jan. 31, 2020

The Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center will receive a $120,000 block grant from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to increase representation in engineering through scholarships.

Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student welding

CU Boulder Mechanical Engineering Department gets new nameÌý

Jan. 30, 2020

The highly-ranked Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is being named after Colorado philanthropist and businessman Paul M. Rady, thanks to his generous support of the college. This is the second department to be named in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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