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Graduate Students in our Computer Engineering Department have been busy this year making a name for themselves in Hackathons. RoomScore won third place in BroncoHack and  received the Best TechCrunch/Crunchbase/WP Data Hack Award at TechCrunch.

Roshan Ramankutty '16 (computer engineering), research assistant in the Frugal Innovation Hub, presented a poster, "Compressing SMS Messages for Lowering Communication Costs in Rural Africa," at  in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 18-20.

Yi Fang (computer engineering) co-organized an international workshop on Data-Driven Talent Acquisition, providing a forum for academia and industry to discuss how the use of Big Data can transform the current practice of talent acquisition and human resource management. .

Silvia Figueira (computer engineering) presented three posters at ACM Dev in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 18-20. Two of the posters, in collaboration with Dan Lewis, were the result of their Google-funded Summer Institute for Humanitarian Computing (SIHC).

Glenn Williams (applied mathematics) had a second U.S. patent issued based on his research and development of novel methods for predictive input-response modeling: "Device for predicting non-linear, time-dependent responses of a component of a system to an input into the system" ().

Jonathan Zhang (bioengineering), his ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ lab, and colleagues at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center identified and illustrated the molecular timer that programs apoptosis (cell death). Their detailed findings will be published in .

Accreditation: The ABET accreditation team visited and evaluated School of Engineering BS programs in computer science and engineering, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, Nov. 6-8. Dean Godfrey Mungal gave an overview, and the team toured facilities, interviewed administrators, faculty and students.

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½'s First Place-winning rEvolve House is a media star, garnering a wide range of coverage across the web through news and social channels and on tv and radio in 26 states! Find lots of photos on , and a great representation of the tv coverage in .

We are saddened to report that Mark Ardema, Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering, has died at the age of 75.  A world authority on dynamics, trajectory optimization, singular perturbation theory, game theory and hypersonic aircraft trajectories and structures, he contributed greatly to the SoE. More information.