Alice and Mort Mortenson (seated), with staff and graduate students of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, including former managing director Robyn Sandekian and founding director Bernard Amadei (standing, second and third from left).

Remembering 'Mort' Mortenson, a dedicated CU Engineering alumnus

Nov. 18, 2019

Mauritz “Mort” Mortenson (CivEngr’58), who passed away Nov. 9 at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 82, leaves behind a deep personal and professional legacy. As chairman of M.A. Mortenson Co. from 1960 to 2015, he was known as a “humble servant-leader.” His company built several buildings on the...

A desalination facility in Dubai along the Persian Gulf coastline

Salt solution: Researcher sets out to make desalination more efficient

Oct. 31, 2019

ֲý Boulder postdoctoral researcher Omkar Supekar of mechanical engineering is working on a technique that could make desalination facilities more efficient by changing the way they detect chemicals that clog up their filters.

A student works with her faculty mentor in a robotics lab.

Google exploreCSR grant will increase research mentoring relationships in computing at CU Boulder

Oct. 9, 2019

The ֲý Boulder is one of 24 institutions to receive Google’s exploreCSR grant, which supports universities that are trying to get more women involved in computing research careers by running research-focused workshops.

Exterior shot of the Engineering Center

College continues national rankings rise

Sept. 9, 2019

Five undergraduate engineering programs ranked in top 20 for 2020.

Florencia Cabral

Online and on campus: Post-baccalaureate student finds community in online degree

Aug. 22, 2019

Florencia Cabral, a student in the online post-baccalaureate in computer science who has been pursuing her degree from Montevideo, Uruguay, decided to take advantage of an opportunity to spend her summer researching recommender systems with Robin Burke from the Department of Information Science.

A rendering of the team's house.

The buildup: Solar Decathlon team moves to next stage of competition

Aug. 7, 2019

The U.S. Department of Energy has named CU Boulder one of 11 finalists in the national Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, which means the team can begin building its renewable energy-powered home.

Srivastava and Waelde at the celebration to dedicate the Engineering Center lobby in their names in honor of their scholarship gift.

Diversity drivers: Couple hopes scholarship gift will boost inclusion efforts

May 9, 2019

The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for CU Boulder alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs – his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology – when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.

A student demonstrates his healthcare-related project to a young Expo visitor.

Build, break and rebuild: Expo celebrates student perseverance

April 30, 2019

More than 140 student teams from six College of Engineering and Applied Science units ringed the Indoor Practice Field to show off their capstone and graduate projects, which Dean Bobby Braun hailed as “truly innovative.”

Dave Hunt in his workshop

Quaker ancestry inspires couple to support scholarships for women in engineering

Feb. 11, 2019

For Dave Hunt (MTele’79), taking an early retirement meant the opportunity to pursue two of his passions — art and genealogy. Dave retired from Texaco Oil in the late 1990s after the company asked him move to Houston. He and his wife, Joyce, who had moved here from Montana in...

Bobby speaks to a class at Akron High School.

Braun Voyage: Eastern Plains are focus of second Engineering State Tour

Sept. 21, 2018

A special thank you to CU Athletics and Larry H. Miller Toyota for letting us use this specially branded CU 4Runner while on tour. At CU Engineering, we’re on a mission to travel to all four corners of Colorado to connect with industry partners and alumni, and to search out...

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