Research
Since the only guarantee in life is change, William Raseman is using his research to try to prepare water municipalities from being crippled by unforeseen circumstances such as floods, droughts or wildfires.The second-year civil
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder engineers, scientists and students are teaming up with Black Swift Technologies of Boulder to use unmanned aircraft in the coming weeks to measure water moisture at a test irrigation farm in Yuma, Colorado.
When an infectious airborne illness strikes, some hospitals use negative pressure rooms to isolate and treat patients. These rooms use ventilation controls to keep germ-filled air contained rather than letting it circulate throughout the hospital. But, in the event of an epidemic, these rooms can quickly fill up. Now, a team at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder has found a simple, cost-effective way for medical facilities to expand this technique to better prepare for disease outbreaks.
As part of the Open Philanthropy effort, Professor Yunping Xi of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and his students will assess the amount of flammable building material in modern cities in various parts of the world, as well as the flammable contents in such buildings.
Three Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØEngineering researchers have won CAREER Awards, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty.CAREER Awards provide approximately $500,000 over five years for those “who have the potential to serve as academic
QB50-Challenger deployed at 11:25pm MDT with two other QB50 satellites in the same deployer.Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's QB50 CubeSat, named "Challenger," was successfully deployed from the International Space Station on May 24th at 11:25 PM MDT
Alexandra Okeson, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØEngineering Outstanding Graduate for Academic Achievement for 2017, tried her hand at several computer science disciplines during her time at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.  Â
She helped scientists at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics develop data analysis software for the IMPACT student dust counter. She interned at the Federal Communications Commission, where she got to see how government is using technology to inform policy decisions. She experienced life at a startup with Next Energy Technologies, and spent a summer at Microsoft partner Avanade in Seattle.
<p>A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ student-built microsatellite is on its way to the International Space Station. The satellite, named ‘Challenger’, had a successful lift off Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 9:11 AM MDT from Cape Canaveral. It is part of the European Union sponsored QB50 project to deploy a network of miniaturized satellites to study part of Earth’s atmosphere.</p>
When David Pfotenhauer decided to pursue a PhD at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, he knew that he wanted to specialize in an application-based science that would allow him get out into communities and use his knowledge to address public issues.
As a current doctoral student in Mechanical Engineering, David joined Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØEngage's 2016-17 cohort of Community-Based Research (CBR) Graduate Fellows. He became the newest member of an ongoing research project, a collaboration between Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder and the Denver-based organization Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart (TNH2H). He began working to further the research that his colleague, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder CBR Fellow (2015-16) and Civil Engineering doctoral student Ashley Collier, had begun the year before in response to community concerns about air quality, contaminants and environmental health. David’s role in the project is to investigate air quality and radon levels in northeast Denver, one of the areas in which TNH2H members live.
The flow and movement of individual solid particles — be it grains of lunar dust or the powdered contents of a medication — holds tremendous research value for scientists in a variety of fields. Now, a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) will allow Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ researchers to simulate particle behavior to a greater degree than ever before.