CU-Boulder to offer new interdisciplinary construction management track
A new partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and the College of Engineering and Applied Science is scheduled to begin in fall 2013. The program, funded by a gift from alumnus Dan Ivanoff and his wife Laurie, supports the creation of a construction management track within the MBA program, opens the door for graduate construction engineering and management students to take associated business classes, and includes a faculty fellowship awarded to CEAE assistant professor Amy Javernick-Will.
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Environmental Engineering Students Win National Design Competition
Students from the spring 2012 CVEN 4434/5434 Environmental Engineering Design class won the Water Environment Federation (WEF) 2012 Student Design Competition. The project “Broadmoor Park Properties Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade” won in the wastewater design category. The competition took place in October as part of WEF’s 85th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference in New Orleans, La.
The student competition promotes real world design experience for students interested in pursuing an education and/or career in water/wastewater engineering and sciences. It tasks individuals or teams of students within a WEF student chapter to prepare a design to help solve a local water quality issue. Teams evaluate alternatives, perform calculations, and recommend the most feasible solution based on experience, economics, and feasibility. The University of Colorado Boulder is a student chapter of the Rocky Mountain Water Environment Foundation.
Team members included Kristen Johansen, Maria Cabeza, Matthew Huntze, Bailey Leppek, Alexandra Murray, and faculty advisor Angela Bielefeldt. The team received certificates and a $2500 award.
Faculty and Students Win $780,000 Grant to Improve Sanitation
A CU-Boulder team recently won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its proposal to develop a solar-biochar toilet for use in developing countries throughout the world. The grant is part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, or RTTC, initiated by the Gates Foundation to address a sanitation challenge affecting nearly 40 percent of the world’s population.
The team includes CEAE faculty Karl Linden and R. Scott Summers and civil engineering graduate students Joshua Kearns, Kyle Shimabuku, and Sara Beck.
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CU-Boulder News
Daily Camera
PhD Student Investigates Biochar for Water Treatment in Developing Countries
Civil engineering PhD student Joshua Kearns is researching ways to improve sanitation and water quality in developing communities through the use of biochar.
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College of Engineering and Applied Science profile
Daily Camera article with video
Students Introduce Green Energy Curriculum in Haiti
Civil engineering graduate student Nathan Canney was among a group that traveled to Haiti in June 2012 to introduce a green energy vocational training program that paves the way for a new era of distributed power in the poverty-stricken, earthquake-damaged nation. Please see the full story here.