Julie Korak New Publication

Professor Awarded for Achievement in Membrane Water Filtration

March 12, 2019

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.

Construction Safety

Researchers Recognized by ASCE for Construction Safety Research

March 7, 2019

Professor Matthew Hallowell and PhD student Wael Alruqi recently were selected as an Editor鈥檚 Choice by the American Society of Civil Engineers for their paper, Critical Success Factors for Construction Safety: Review and Meta-Analysis of Safety Leading Indicators . Their research focused on what factors in construction correlated most strongly...

Civil Senior Design Team

Civil Engineering Seniors Designing New Denver Water Treatment Plant

March 7, 2019

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 who must design and and plan the project. At the end of the semester,...

Abstract

Prof. Amy Javernick-Will and Sherri Cook New Publication in "Science of the Total Environment"

March 5, 2019

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.

Professor Kyri Baker

New class is writing the book on emerging building and power grid interactions

Feb. 26, 2019

鈥淚 love pursuing crazy, big, 鈥榬esearch-y鈥 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,鈥 said Assistant Professor Kyri Baker, who developed and teaches the new Grid Connected Systems class. 鈥淚 am not aware of another course at CU Boulder 鈥 or even in the country 鈥 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.鈥

Professor Evan Thomas

CU Boulder Researchers and IBM Pilot Sustainable Groundwater Modeling

Feb. 22, 2019

A recent article published in Forbes discusses how researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are teaming up with tech giant IBM, nonprofit organization The Freshwater Trust (TFT), and sensor provider SweetSense Inc. to pilot blockchain and satellite-connected sensor solutions to track groundwater usage in California. By transmitting water extraction...

Paola Almeida

New CVEN/EVEN Summer Course - International Environmental Impact Assessment

Feb. 18, 2019

This course describes the methodologies used for impact analysis of engineering projects considering the relationship cause-effect between the activities of the project and the affected environmental components. The student will also learn international laws for the context of proper judgement elements needed to evaluate environmental impacts in developing economies. Finally, the course proposes the development of methodologies to minimize impacts as part of the Environmental Management Plan focused on the establishments of mitigation measurements for predicted environmental impacts.

Mickey Rush in Patagonia

Interview with PhD Student Mickey Rush: Hydrology Research in Patagonia

Feb. 12, 2019

A PhD student at CU Boulder discusses his inspiring work in the Ays茅n region of Chilean Patagonia that took place between March and November 2018. Mickey Rush is currently pursuing his PhD in the Hydrology, Water Resources and Environmental Fluid Mechanics group of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural...

Mc Murdo Dry Valleys

A Water Quality Mystery, Solved in Antarctica

Feb. 4, 2019

In one of the coldest, driest places on Earth, CU Boulder scientists have developed a possible answer to a longstanding mystery about the chemistry of streamflow, which may have broad implications for watersheds and water quality around the world.

Amy Javernick-Will

Javernick-Will Contributes to Report on Career Benefits of an Engineering Degree

Jan. 31, 2019

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published a report on the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will is a committee member of the NAE panel on the engineering education to workforce continuum and contributed to this report. The report studied the demographics...

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