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The link to request our Mobile Classroom for your school or community event is live! The Mobile Classroom provides age a...
09/06/2026

The link to request our Mobile Classroom for your school or community event is live!
The Mobile Classroom provides age appropriate activities for K-12 students at no cost to schools or events.
If you are an educator looking for hands-on science activities or looking for more information, visit our website here: https://energy.colostate.edu/k-12-outreach/mobile-classroom/

The Mobile Classroom is powered by Platte River Power Authority and Efficiency Works Colorado.

CSU Football returns this weekend! The Rapid Prototyping Lab team is putting the finishing touches on the photo booths a...
09/04/2026

CSU Football returns this weekend! The Rapid Prototyping Lab team is putting the finishing touches on the photo booths at Canvas Stadium. Find them at the north side of the concourse tomorrow and capture your game day experience.



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Colorado State Football

The Cogen Fellowship is an opportunity for students to work with host organizations, faculty labs, and start-ups in the ...
09/03/2026

The Cogen Fellowship is an opportunity for students to work with host organizations, faculty labs, and start-ups in the Powerhouse and gain real world experience.

This past summer, a group of 16 students worked to solve real-world problems with mentors from their host organizations, providing them with new opportunities and knowledge they wouldn't have received in the classroom.

Want to learn more about this program? Check out the SOURCE story here: https://source.colostate.edu/cogen-fellowship-expands-student-opportunity/


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How is the impact of a consumer good or service calculated? A techno-economic analysis (TEA) can help determine economic...
08/29/2026

How is the impact of a consumer good or service calculated? A techno-economic analysis (TEA) can help determine economic viability. An environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) can help calculate the total environmental impact. Smith Pittman wants to go further to quantify the social impact.

At a recent Speaker Series, Smith presented her efforts to develop a way to calculate the total social benefits and burdens. Smith hopes the new social impact assessment can be used along with TEA and LCA to create a more complete understanding of the sustainability of products. These tools, used together, can help evaluate proposed processes prior to resource investment.

Smith is a bioprocess engineer at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) and a 5th year Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on developing computational and quantitative methods for complex bioprocesses, including process modeling, TEA, LCA, and quantitative social impact assessment (QSIA).




Colorado State University Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Colorado State University Department of Mechanical Engineering
Colorado State University Research
Colorado State University Graduate School

08/27/2026

By combining high-pressure water and abrasive sand, our waterjet can cut through metal in a wide range of thicknesses!

Located at the Colorado State University Energy Institute, the Rapid Prototyping Lab gives researchers and innovators access to tools like waterjet cutting to design, test, and build climate solutions at scale.


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AI is transforming research, enabling faster discovery and innovation. This necessitates adaptation to stay on the cutti...
08/25/2026

AI is transforming research, enabling faster discovery and innovation. This necessitates adaptation to stay on the cutting edge. For today's speaker series, Jon Loftin, Senior Customer Success Engineer at MathWorks, shared with our community ways to incorporate agentic AI into workflows. Thank you, Jon, for sharing with our community specific examples that increase ability, taking us into new areas of discovery. Jon holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Texas Tech University, has years of teaching experience, and a research focus on building efficient integration techniques in finite element methods.

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Welcome new students! Come tour the Powerhouse Energy Campus! At the Energy Institute, we’re developing real-world energ...
08/24/2026

Welcome new students!
Come tour the Powerhouse Energy Campus! At the Energy Institute, we’re developing real-world energy and carbon solutions to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges. Explore the state-of-the-art facility and learn how we take science to solutions to scale.

To sign up for a tour visit our website: https://energy.colostate.edu/tours/

Thank you to everyone who joined the Student Cyber Assessment for National Security and Critical Infrastructure Workshop...
08/21/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined the Student Cyber Assessment for National Security and Critical Infrastructure Workshop.

This multi-day immersive event provided college students with interactive experiences, networking opportunities, and the chance to learn from industry professionals.

The workshop wouldn't have been possible without our co-hosts: CSU Department of Systems Engineering and the Front Range Consortium .

Mark your calendars! EnergyFest is coming back to the Powerhouse on September 26th from 10 am to 1pm. There will be inte...
08/18/2026

Mark your calendars!

EnergyFest is coming back to the Powerhouse on September 26th from 10 am to 1pm. There will be interactive exhibits, demonstrations, tours, and more! This event is free and suitable for all ages.

To learn more, visit the QR code or learn more at https://energy.colostate.edu/energyfest/

EnergyFest is powered by Efficiency Works and Platte River Power Authority

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