Returning decades later as commencement speaker for the college he graduated from is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity for which Dickinson expressed deep gratitude.
Colorado State University and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host a two-day conference in Fort Collins on Aug. 30-31, the first such event in a series at six universities around the country.
"I have always made it a point to push past my comfort zones and actively participate in presentations and outreach events, and I am proud to say that my classmates have always been exceptionally welcoming and great to work with."
Computer science students are creative, flexible and bring an arsenal of problem-solving skills to interdisciplinary competition.
Dickinson is a four-star general in the U.S. Army and a 1985 alumnus of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering.
Engineering Source talked with a few students on the SnifTek team, one of the venture-funded senior design projects, about the opportunity to showcase their hard work in person at E-Days on Friday, April 22.
The Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering boasts alumni as well as faculty and staff who were athletes in college.
Todd Bandhauer, now a mechanical engineering professor, knows the pressures of being an engineering student-athlete, and is now giving back by helping students facing those pressures.
Nearly 500 graduating engineering students will compete in the annual E-Days competition on April 22 at the LSC.
Offering degrees at Adams State University in the San Luis Valley will help reach a goal of attracting more students from Hispanic communities. “This degree leads into the engineering profession. We also want to create a more diverse mechanical engineering profession,” said Christian Puttlitz. (Denver Post)