Amy Kramer

Saving Businesses from Patent Trolls

Intellectual property attorneys don鈥檛 bask in the spotlight, but they are a company鈥檚 best friend when it comes to protecting IP rights. Instead of taking victory laps for defending against increasingly common infringement cases, intellectual property attorneys are likely buried underneath stacks of documents, poring over every detail to protect their clients鈥 rights. This is the world of engineer-turned-intellectual property lawyer Amy Kramer.

Matossian

Matossian's Search

As an Apollo generation kid in the Washington D.C. area, Mark Matossian (AeroEngr MS 鈥93, PhD 鈥95) remembers watching the live moon landings on television, then wandering outside at night squinting at that very same celestial body, trying to see the lunar module. 鈥淭hat time ignited鈥onder,鈥 says Matossian, head of program management and production at Google鈥檚 Skybox Imaging. 鈥淚t was then that I connected with space.鈥

DeCook husband and wife

Pay it Forward

Every year, David DeCook (ArchEngr 鈥71) hosts a dinner for new recipients of his architectural engineering scholarship. When he meets them, he likes to issue a challenge. 鈥淲e want you to try to do the same we鈥檙e doing for you,鈥 he tells them. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e going to make good bucks, and we want you to try to repay it down the line.鈥

Students

Engineering Plus helps students find a 'nontraditional niche'

Undergraduate engineering programs are not known for being flexible. Research shows engineering students get about 2 percent of their degree credit hours to devote to free electives, compared to almost a quarter of credit hours for their non-engineering peers. In 2013, the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU...

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Waste Not, Want Not

CU-Boulder engineers aim to turn America鈥檚 dirty water into cleaner air, energy for industry

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The Light Stuff

Computing speed takes a giant leap forward thanks to a new photonics-based microchip

CU drone in the sky

Dreams for the Sky

CU drones target severe storms to improve tornado forecasts

Two women discussing their ideas

8 finalists chosen for CU's Catalyze student business accelerator in Boulder

Aaron Clauset

Talking network science with Erdos-Renyi Prize winner Aaron Clauset

Aaron Clauset is an assistant professor of computer science and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at CU-Boulder. He recently accepted the 2016 Erd艖s-R茅nyi Prize in Network Science, which is an international prize awarded annually to a researcher under 40 who has made fundamental contributions to the advancement of network science...

Percentage of women and minorities on the rise

Engineering sets new record: Most diverse class ever

June 1, 2016

CU-Boulder鈥檚 second biggest college enrolled record numbers of first-year women and underrepresented minorities in 2015-16, and preliminary figures suggest it will reach yet a new milestone in the fall. The number of first-year undergraduate women in the College of Engineering & Applied Science rose 17 percent last year, to 284,...

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