Chemical powered car

CU Boulder team advances to Chem-E-Car Nationals

April 30, 2018

The Chem-E-Car competition is an engineering design competition where teams build RC-car sized autonomous vehicles that are powered and controlled by analytically designed chemical reactions.

A student discussing her project with Expo attendees.

Engineering Projects Expo 2018 takes over Coors Events Center

April 28, 2018

Click for a Flickr Album of Expo Photos Lights flashed, buzzers rang and attendees watched with rapt attention at the home of Â鶹ÊÓƵ basketball – but with 143 teams in attendance, this was no basketball game. Welcome to the first ever CU Boulder College of Engineering and...

A nuclear power plant

Study raises concerns for aging nuclear containment vessel structures

April 27, 2018

There are nearly 100 nuclear power plants across the United States, all of which rely on concrete containment vessels (NCVS) to provide the last layer of safety in case of accident. Some of these vessels exhibit serious signs of aging associated with a slow, but irreversible, degradation of concrete known...

Two students working on a cooler device for long term storage of medical supplies following natural disasters.

Expo: Senior designing for social good

April 26, 2018

Keats Dormont is making the world a better place through mechanical engineering. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ undergraduate student is part of a new senior design course within the Department of Mechanical Engineering that is transforming student projects into an avenue for positive change in the world. “This is an...

Alex Lubar reads the anemometer measurements while Wilson Hughes flies a drone at CU Boulder South Campus.

Expo: Designing a UAV system that can outsmart a thunderstorm

April 26, 2018

Domino’s, UPS, Amazon, and the United States military are just a few examples of institutions interested in using drones as automated delivery systems for financial, logistical, and environmental reasons. Drones save on employee costs, and they utilize otherwise unused airspace. They are far greener than loading everything into a car...

A metal 3D printed object.

Expo: Next generation metal 3D printing

April 26, 2018

In the last several years, 3D printing has taken off as a convenient method to creating plastic parts. It has become a relatively cheap and quick way to rapidly prototype a design concept with potentially complex geometries before taking it to large scale production. If there was a way to...

The team with the project.

Expo: Senior design aims to boost wind turbine uptime

April 26, 2018

You don’t have to drive far on Colorado’s roads to notice a rapid growth in the renewable energy sector, resulting in wind farm and solar installations statewide. Since 2010, electricity from renewable sources has more than doubled in Colorado, growing to ~20% of the state’s power. As similar trends are...

Katherine Cummins and Andrea Ashley

Two CU engineers earn NDSEG fellowship

April 26, 2018

Paid for by the Department of Defense, the NDSEG fellowship is a grant to encourage doctoral students to pursue research that may assist our nation's defense efforts.

Better Water for All: ATLAS expert wants to improve quality and equity

April 25, 2018

Each year, nearly 41,000 children in Pakistan die from diarrhea caused by contaminated water supplies. Mustafa Naseem, who grew up drinking from those same water supplies, wants to change that. Naseem is an expert-in-residence for the Information and Communication Technology for Development program at the ATLAS Institute . In September,...

Lisa Wang

Lisa Wang, EnvEngr'19

April 24, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I grew up as an only child and I've had a lot of attention from my parents. I became incredibly dependent on them. As a result, I decided to go off to another country to study engineering as a challenge to...

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