As issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion continue to surface, it’s clearly evident that something isn’t working. So, what about engineering should change? Dr. Walter Lee and members of his research group are actively working towards finding answers to this question. Please join us for a conversation. View PDF Flyer
Please join the Mines Global Energy Future Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Christopher Smith, Senior Vice President, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Cheniere, presenting a webinar titled The Role of Natural Gas in the Clean Energy Economy of the Future on Thursday, February 25, 2021 […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines and the Getches-Wilkinson Center, CU Law School, as we welcome Eric Blank, Chair, Colorado Public Utilities Commission, Julie Murphy, Director, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Sharon Jacobs, Associate Professor and Board Member of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment, University […]
Please join the Daniels Fund and the Division of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences for a virtual talk by Dr. Rediet Abebe, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Dr. Costa Samaras, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, presenting a webinar titled Assessing U.S. Passenger Vehicle Decarbonization Under Electrification and Automation Uncertainty on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm (MT). TOPIC: ASSESSING U.S. […]
Adam Kaufman University of Colorado @ Boulder, JILA Abstract: Quantum science with neutral atoms has seen great advances in the past two decades. Many of these advances follow from the […]
Novelist and literary scholar Jasmin Darznik discusses how Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran's rebel poet, has been transformed and re-imagined outside of Iran, offering new possibilities for how Iranian women are seen--and see themselves--in America and beyond. Bio: Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Bohemians (April 2021), a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer […]
The Payne Institute for Public Policy, Mines DI&A, and Mines Athletics are pleased to host a webinar book launch featuring Johnnie Johnson and Dr. Michael E. Webber on their new collaboration “From Athletics to Engineering: 8 Ways to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for All” on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 from 10:00am – 11:00am (MT). TOPIC: FROM ATHLETICS TO […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome George Sparks, President and CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, presenting a webinar titled Merit and Equity in a Capitalist Meritocracy on Thursday, March 4, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT). TOPIC: MERIT AND EQUITY IN […]
Please join Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Solar in Alberta: What Does it Look Like and How Do We Manage It? on Friday, March 5 at 10 a.m. MST. TOPIC: SOLAR IN ALBERTA: WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE AND HOW DO WE […]
High-impact, Interdisciplinary Capstone Design: Fostering student development and career pathways to meet 21st-century challenges Interdisciplinary Capstone Design offers a forum to integrate high-impact practices that can build critical 21st-century skillsets for engineering students. Join us as Dr. Aaron Brown speaks via Zoom: https://mines.zoom.us/j/92893030153 Aaron Brown is a professor and program coordinator at Metropolitan State University […]
Using Downhole Fiber Optic Sensing Technology to Monitor, Control and Improve Well Performance Register to Attend Using Downhole Fiber Optic Sensing Technology to Monitor, Control and Improve Well Performance Downhole […]
Alice Olmstead Texas State University, Department of Physics Abstract: Much has been learned in the past few decades about how to teach undergraduate STEM courses in a way that generates […]
The world is changing faster, and more intensely, than ever. How are we to reconcile the realities of identity, cultural integrity and humility and compassion as we tick closer to 8 billion souls? We will discuss the ways in which, art, mythology and writing in particular, can possibly serve to pave the way forward into […]
The Emerging Scholars Seminar Series offers free weekly seminars on various topics of interest to undergraduate student researchers at Mines. Any interested students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. […]
Please join the Mines Integrated CCUS Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Lee Beck, CCUS Policy Innovation Director, Clean Air Task Force, Samantha McCulloch, Head of CCUS Unit, International Energy Agency, and Michael Weiner, Associate Director, Carbon Utilization Research Council, presenting a webinar titled Policy Perspective […]
Lucio Isa from ETH Zurich will give a talk entitled "New Directions for Active Colloids: Swimming at Oil-Water Interfaces and External Feedback."
Dr Orrs will discuss the multifaceted role of design in engineering education in courses, career & life. Zoom link: https://mines.zoom.us/j/93646659897 After exploring the multi-faceted role of design thinking in engineering education, this presentation previews new developments that can be anticipated in the field, which will keep Mines at the forefront of engineering capstone design and […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Alex Gilbert, Project Manager, Nuclear Innovation Alliance, presenting a webinar titled Governance of […]
Dr. Pearson created Engineering Change Podcast to help REDEFINE the engineering education experience as we know it. Rooted in diversity, inclusion and equity best practices, Dr. Pearson is working to RE-imagine who […]
Join prominent novelists and film-makers Jasmin Darznik, Patricia Engel, Laleh Khadivi for a discussion on issues facing women scholars and artists. Jasmin Darznik is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Bohemians (April 2021), a novel that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American assistant in 1920s San Francisco. Her debut […]
Dr. Youmans will discuss design education that prepares engineering graduates for the 21st century. Zoom link: https://mines.zoom.us/j/96552640108 Engineering programs face the growing challenge of building programs to effectively prepare students for an increasingly complex 21st century. This requires a continued emphasis on technical skills, alongside professional skills such as teamwork, problem-solving, and communication. Further, students […]
The Emerging Scholars Seminar Series offers free weekly seminars on various topics of interest to undergraduate student researchers at Mines. Any interested students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. […]
Interested in combating climate change? Want to set yourself apart from your Engineering peers with a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering? Does an engineering field with a median salary of $108K and growth potential interest you? Learn more at the Nuclear Science & Engineering Virtual Info Session: Thursday, March 18, 12:30 p.m., MT. Graduate degrees […]
Amy Herr from the University of California, Berkeley will give a talk. entitled "Microfluidic design bridges a gap: Electrophoretic Cytometry for targeted proteomics."
Please join the Mines Integrated CCUS Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of […]
Capstone programs offer the opportunity for students to develop creative, realistic, multidisciplinary, and sustainable engineering designs while simultaneously developing design competency and practical skills. Client-driven processes in particular have excellent potential to generate co-curricular benefits such as networking and job placements. The future of design education centers around preparing the next generation of holistic problem […]
Mitigating Production Degradation Due to Frac Hits in Unconventional Reservoirs Register To Attend In unconventional reservoirs, a "frac hit" is the infill-to-parent well communication during hydraulic fracturing. In most shale plays, production from the parent-infill well system drops below original forecasts due to production degradation after fracture hits from offset wells. Fracturing treatments in infill […]
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Former Colorado Governor and Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University, presenting a webinar titled The Energy Transition and Public Policy on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm […]
Xuedong Hu University at Buffalo, Department of Physics Abstract: Electron spin qubits in Si are promising candidates as building blocks toward future scalable quantum computers. Tremendous progress has been made in the past decade in demonstrating the exceptional coherence properties of spins confined in quantum dots and donors. However, studies of high-fidelity manipulation of spin […]
Please join the FGL Society and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon, presenting a webinar titled Climate Emergency […]
Join us this Wednesday! Emerging Scholar Seminars cover a wide range of invaluable undergraduate research related topics. The Emerging Scholars Seminar Series offers free weekly seminars on various topics of interest to undergraduate student researchers at Mines. Any interested students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. There are no limitations on attendance. This is […]
Paul Santi is a Professor of Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where he has been on faculty for over 19 years. Previously, he taught for 6 years […]
Please join the Calgary Climate Symposium as they welcome Payne Institute Senior Research Associate Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon, David Keith, and Ed Whittingham, on the Energy vs. Climate series for a webinar titled Rebuilding Alberta’s Energy […]
Please join the Mines Integrated CCUS Initiative and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome moderator John Bradford, Vice President for Global Initiatives, Colorado School […]
Dr. Nicole Lautze, University of Hawaii Topic: What We Know and Don't Know about Hawaii's Geothermal Resource Abstract: The State of Hawaii has the highest cost of electricity in the […]
Brent Nannenga from Arizona State University will give a talk entitled "High-resolution molecular structure determination: Methods development and applications."
Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines and the Getches-Wilkinson Center, CU Law School, as we welcome Phil Weiser, Colorado Attorney General, Sharon Jacobs, Associate Professor […]