Lisa Hardaway (AeroEngr PhD'00)

Engineer of Distinction Award (Posthumous) Lisa Hardaway was chief engineer on the Orion Program at Ball Aerospace and Technologies, overseeing the design, development and test of a suite of sensors used for relative navigation. Prior to this, she was the technical manager for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera...

Jared Leidich (MechEngr'09)

Recent Alumni Award Jared Leidich, a licensed professional engineer, led the design of the life support pack for a state-of-the-art spacesuit that safely carried Google executive Alan Eustace to the stratosphere on three flights. The third flight was the highest altitude a human has ascended to by balloon, the highest...

M. Jeanne Place (AeroEngr'50, MS '65)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award (Posthumous) Category: Industry and Commerce Jeanne Place built a 40-year career at General Electric, becoming an expert in heavy duty gas turbines and compressors and leading testing of compressors in the aerodynamics and performance subsection of GE’s gas turbine department. She was the first female engineering...

Scott McNary (CivEngr'81, MS '84)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce W. Scott McNary has more than 30 years of experience in design, management, construction engineering and inspection of a wide range of concrete and cable-stayed bridges with spans from 40 feet to more than 1,250 feet. He provides innovative and visionary leadership...

CU ITP students participate in hackathon.

ITP team places first in NANOG hackathon

Feb. 27, 2018

The team included Arohi Gupta, Soham Dhiren Shah, Pranit Sanjay Yadav, Amar Chaudhari and Aditya Ahuja.

Student work on laptops during the hackathon.

Hackathon brings out about 600 students for 'invention marathon'

Feb. 25, 2018

The Daily Camera covers the fourth annual Hack CU, organized by several computer science undergrads.

JT Abate skiing at Olympics

Q&A: Junior JT Abate serves as Olympic forerunner

Feb. 22, 2018

JT Abate, a junior mechanical engineering student, was invited to serve as forerunner for the ski events at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang. He's spending 21 days in South Korea forerunning the downhill, super-G and super combined for both the men and women's events. Read our Q&A with JT about...

Kelsey Dowd, CompSci'18

Kelsey Dowd, CompSci'18

Feb. 22, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? I discovered my love for math and science in High School. I visited CU Boulder when I was applying for colleges and loved it! I started out as a chemical engineering major, but I soon found out my passion for coding...

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An engineer’s guide to CU Boulder Next

Feb. 21, 2018

This Saturday, CU Boulder kicks off its first segment of CU Boulder Next in Los Angeles, and if you’re a scientist or engineer, you don’t want to miss it. CU Boulder Next is a first-of-its-kind event for our university that brings Chancellor Phil DiStefano and top faculty and students to eight cities to showcase the incredible research and education, artistic endeavors, and athletic feats happening on our campus – and the ones still to come. Think of it as TED Talks meets trade show mixed with one giant party.

Jill Tietjen (left) meets scholarship recipients at the college's 2017 scholarship dinner.

PBS to air profile of prominent CU supporter

Feb. 21, 2018

Tietjen has spent years doing her part to advocate for and recognize women, both in engineering and in fields like filmmaking. That advocacy, combined with her own professional accomplishments, earned her induction into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010. This month, the Hall of Fame is collaborating with Rocky Mountain PBS for a video series highlighting several of their inductees, including Tietjen.

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