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- Two CEAE Research Associates are performing a study to gather background water-quality data from Union Reservoir, which will provide the City of Longmont with comparison data if contamination from hydraulic fracturing activities occurs in the future.
- Professor and building systems engineering researcher John Zhai will be named a fellow by the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) in September. He will be honored for his contributions to the field of building
- Professor Angela R. Bielefeldt was named a 2019 Presidents Teaching Scholar (PTS). She is the fourth PTS from civil, environmental and architectural engineering. This award is the highest honor for teaching at the university level and
- The U.S. News and World Report graduate college rankings were just released. The Environmental Engineering program ranked in the top 10 and the Civil Engineering ranked in the top 20 among public engineering graduate programs:
Environmental (#8) - Civil (#14) - Assistant Professor Julie Korak was awarded the 2018 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for her paper Nanofiltration to Improve Process Efficiency of Hexavalent Chromium Treatment Using Ion Exchange.
- Professor Matthew Hallowell and PhD student Wael Alruqi recently were selected as an Editors Choice by the American Society of Civil Engineers for their paper, Critical Success Factors for Construction Safety: Review and Meta-Analysis of Safety
- CEAE undergrads in the Civil Engineering Senior Project Design course are working to design the new Northwater Treatment Plant (NTP) for Denver Water. These design-build projects are being created by 13 multidisciplinary teams of 6 students
- EVEN Faculty Professor Amy Javernick-Will and Professor Sherri Cook alongside CVEN PhD Candidate Allie Davis have recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
- I love pursuing crazy, big, research-y ideas and I like talking about them with students. But I also truly believe in keeping courses as up-to-date as possible with what industry needs, said Assistant Professor Kyri Baker, who developed and teaches the new Grid Connected Systems class. I am not aware of another course at CU Boulder or even in the country that focuses solely on building-to-grid interactions from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives right now. This is education that students will need and that industry is asking for.
- A recent article published in Forbes discusses how researchers at the 做厙輦⑹ are teaming up with tech giant IBM, nonprofit organization The Freshwater Trust (TFT), and sensor provider SweetSense Inc. to pilot blockchain and