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The 2019 CU Engineering Projects Expo will showcase hands-on engineering capstone design projects of over 130 teams on April 26. Engineering seniors and graduate students are sponsored by industry partners, �山���� faculty members or have developed their own entrepreneurial ideas.

Mechanical engineering students won first, second and third place at the New Venture Challenge championships. Stride Tech, a capstone design team took home $100,000. Button Huggie, a graduate design team took home $45,000. TissueForm took home $12,500.

Engineering students and faculty can hear from experts in the field of autonomy and artificial intelligence during the Conference on World Affairs April 9-13 on the �山���� campus. This premier forum for discussion attracts a diverse group of experts from around the world.

When high school students from rural Colorado research air quality as it relates to the things that interest them most, the result is enthusiastic students and one-of-a-kind projects. �山����’s Air Quality Inquiry project, supported by a �山���� Outreach Award, pairs students with undergraduate mentors.

Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty and students had great showing at the 11th U.S. National Combustion Meeting. Faculty members were honored with awards, gave two of the three flagship plenary lectures, took on new board memberships and led three critical combustion events.

Outdoor air has been regulated for decades, but emissions from daily domestic activities may be more dangerous than anyone imagined. Assistant Professor Nina Vance was featured in the New Yorker for her HomeChem indoor air quality research.

Six �山���� teams will vie for up to $200,000 in funding at the 11th annual New Venture Challenge (NVC), �山����’s premier entrepreneurial startup competition, on April 3 at the �山���� Theater. Nearly 120 ventures took part in this year’s competition.

The Silicon Flatirons Center will host a conference on artificial intelligence on May 3 at �山����. Topics include: “What Problem is AI Explainability Supposed to Solve,” “Explainability in CS Versus the Law,” “Comparative Legal Approaches to Explainability,” and “Explainability: A Way Forward?”

After his grandmother sustained injuries from a fall, Tim Visos-Ely, Stride Tech CEO and engineering plus senior, was inspired to devise a solution for safer senior care. Stride Tech will be competing at the NVC Championship.

Competing against five teams in the NVC Research & Development (R&D) Track Finals competition, TissueForm took home the first place prize and $6,000 after pitching their business idea to a panel of judges and a live audience.