Arielle Dispenza holds her award.

Arielle Dispenza recognized for excellence in teaching

Jan. 10, 2022

Arielle Dispenza was honored in December as the recipient of the 2021 Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award from CU Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science. The award annually recognizes one engineering faculty member who has shown consistent dedication to teaching, education and students.

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Spring 2021 Capstone Projects

May 3, 2021

CTD Capstone (previously TAM Capstone) is a rigorous, two-semester course sequence required for all Creative Technology & Design majors. Normally taken during the senior year, it involves the completion of a culminating project that goes through multiple rounds of faculty review and iteration. This small collection of project presentations gives a sense of the kind of work students complete in the CTD program.

Two students smile as they build a remote control car from cardboard, salvaged parts and micro:bits

Microsoft Research workshop gives new life to old toys

March 20, 2018

The assignment is to play with remote control cars. Well actually, break them up and use the parts to build something else. It's an apt assignment for Arielle Hein’s Object class, which meets in the ATLAS Blow Things Up Lab.

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"A New Way to Measure Time," TEDxMileHigh:Point of Departure

June 30, 2017

Watch ATLAS TAM Instructor Arielle Hein's talk, "A new way to measure time," delivered at TEDxMileHigh 2017: Point of Departure last summer.