Underwater vacuum

Mechanical engineering seniors aim to sink purple sea urchin population with underwater vacuum

April 6, 2022

The vacuum, designed and built by the student team Urchin Merchants, could help save California鈥檚 underwater kelp forests by making it easier for divers to collect the purple sea urchins that are destroying the bull kelp population.

Respirogen syringe and OMBs

CU Boulder spinoff company develops technology that could treat COVID-19 complications

Oct. 19, 2021

After a year when the nation experienced a shortage of mechanical ventilators to help treat patients with severe COVID-19 complications, Professor Mark Borden's company Respirogen presents another treatment option: oxygen microbubbles.

Chern-Hoi Lim

Alumnus Lim earns C&EN Talented 12 recognition for pursuing commercialization of CO2 as a feedstock for commodity chemicals

Oct. 6, 2021

Chern-Hooi Lim (PhDChemEngr鈥15) is the founder and CEO of New Iridium, a spinoff company created by research conducted in part in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was recently selected for C&EN鈥檚 Talented 12, a program that honors young chemists and chemical engineers who are bringing innovation and entrepreneurship to bear on pressing global issues.

Kevin Green and wife Clodagh drinking wine in a vineyard

An extended journey: Alumnus Kevin Green on the road from engineer to winemaker

Sept. 8, 2021

鈥淟a Randonn茅e鈥 is French for a rambling walk or hike. For department alumnus Kevin Green (ChemEngr鈥96), the metaphor of an extended journey is apt for his own winding career. First as a student studying chemical and environmental engineering at CU Boulder, to a stint at Intel, then as an expatriate living in Ireland, and finally as a winemaker at Apollini Vineyards in Oregon and for his own label, appropriately named La Randonn茅e Wines.

Matanya Horowitz

CU alum creates AI robots to sort recyclables

July 7, 2021

Within a year of earning a PhD in controls and dynamical systems, Matanya Horowitz (ApMath, CompSci, Econ, ElCompEngr鈥10; MElEngr鈥10) founded AMP Robotics. His vision? Use artificial intelligence to elevate the recycling industry.

Two students work on project in Idea Forge.

ME students invent device for delivering COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas

March 31, 2021

CU Engineering students have invented a novel solution to this global problem, which has the potential to affect millions of people living in rural areas around the world. Meet PortaVax, a portable vaccine carrier that can keep up to 250 vaccine doses cold for several days using insulation and dry ice.

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Alumnus鈥 startup harnesses blockchain for secure, trustworthy PPE purchasing

March 29, 2021

Alumnus uses technology background to help small and medium-size companies order of PPE during COVID-19.

Fletcher Richman with Halp co-founders Tristan Rubadeau and Komran Rashidov on a balcony in Boulder with the Flatirons in the background.

Enabling the ways we work

July 7, 2020

CU Engineering alumnus Fletcher Richman's startup success grew from a passion for productivity tools.

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Beer Buffs: CU Engineering alumni become brewers

April 28, 2020

In Colorado鈥檚 craft beer industry, precision is required and innovation is mandatory. CU Engineers bring both in spades. Meet a few of our local alumni brewers and learn how they鈥檙e engineering a better brew.

FieldLine Capstone Design

Students help to see the brain in a new way

April 10, 2020

FieldLine Inc., a company that grew out of research being conducted in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, is building sensors to image the brain using magnetic fields. For the second consecutive year, capstone design students will help to advance their innovative concepts.

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