Faculty
Research Professor Jacob Segil is also the CEO of ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ startup Afference. The company traveled to Las Vegas for this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to showcase what's being called "the new frontier" of spatial computing: a neural haptic ring that allows users to feel something even when touching nothing.
Associate Professor Chunmei Ban and her research team are exploring the use of sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to lithium-based energy storage. Sodium is widely distributed in the Earth's crust and is an appealing candidate to remedy concerns over resource scarcity with lithium-ion batteries.
In a study conducted by Assistant Teaching Professor James Harper and his consultation company Realize Research, LLC, it was found that regions where heavy storms and floods are more prevalent cause households in those areas to stop using and maintaining their toilets. Toilet dysfunction is a huge source of pollution, can increase the burden on water treatment systems and is a major risk of human health.
Sean Humbert, professor in mechanical engineering and director of the Robotics graduate program, chats with CBS News Colorado about some of the technology him and his students are working on at CU ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅. One of their builds is a robot that the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ County Sheriff's Office uses to support their bomb squad team.
The Paul M. Ray Department of Mechanical Engineering has launched a new research area in design. The new focus area, geared toward PhD students, involves the study of the design process and how various contexts (environmental, psychological, political, etc.) affect the artifacts that todayβs engineers aim to create.
Greg Rieker, associate professor of mechanical engineering and co-founder of LongPath Technologies, gathered with others on the CU ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ campus to celebrate a $162.4 million loan package from the U.S. Department of Energy. The loan will help Rieker and LongPath expand methane detection using laser-based quantum devices that scan the atmosphere in real time.
Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaramβs Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Laboratory recently won the IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics.
The laser-based system now has the ability to capture moment-to-moment details of high-speed processes such as hypersonic propulsion and protein folding.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has ranked the CU system 14th among the βTop 100β institutions nationwide for recent patent activity.
The designation positions Colorado to apply for and secure federal funding opportunities to advance the industry.