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When she first arrived in Boulder in the late 1970s, Faran Nouri was a scared girl from post-revolutionary Iran who spoke very little English. Today, she a powerhouse venture capital executive who discovers and helps support the best and brightest new tech companies. 

Alumnus Vince Kontny, a longtime friend of CU Engineering and influential member of the engineering and construction industry, passed away Aug. 9 at age 83. Kontny served on the college Engineering Development Council for many years and earned the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1989, as well as an honorary doctorate from �Ͼ�Ʒ�� in 1991.

Duane Chesley (MechEngr’58) valued education because of how it impacted his life, taking him from humble beginnings on a farm in Nebraska to full colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. At �Ͼ�Ʒ��, he endowed a scholarship and established an earn-learn apprenticeship to support mechanical engineering students.

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� alumnus Marco Campos (CivEngr'98) and his company, Campos EPC, have provided $1 million through the Campos EPC Foundation to allow for a transformational renovation of the BOLD Center.

The highly-ranked Department of Mechanical Engineering at the �Ͼ�Ʒ�� is being named after Colorado philanthropist and businessman Paul M. Rady, thanks to his generous support of the college. This is the second department to be named in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Mauritz “Mort” Mortenson (CivEngr’58), who passed away Nov. 9 at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 82, leaves behind a deep personal and professional legacy.As chairman of M.A. Mortenson Co. from 1960 to 2015, he was known as a “humble

The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for �Ͼ�Ʒ�� alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs – his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology – when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.

For Dave Hunt (MTele’79), taking an early retirement meant the opportunity to pursue two of his passions — art and genealogy.Dave retired from Texaco Oil in the late 1990s after the company asked him move to Houston. He and his wife, Joyce, who had

The gift to the College of Engineering and Applied Science from passionate �Ͼ�Ʒ�� supporters Ann Smead and her husband Michael Byram, aims to set �Ͼ�Ʒ�� apart from its aerospace peers and propel it to the top of national rankings by attracting the best and brightest students and faculty.

Boulder business owner Chuck Palmer (ElEngr’76, MS’88) has provided $4 million to help recruit and recognize outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (