Honoring Our Foundations While Shaping the Future of Engineering with Dr. Keith Molenaar 

Wednesday, May 20, 3:00 PM

Aero 120, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building, 3775 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303

Speaker Bio:
Keith is dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the K. Stanton Lewis Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. As dean, he leads more than 11,000 faculty, staff, and students in meeting the mission for the state’s flagship engineering college. In 2023, the college achieved two major milestones. At 41% female in its first-year class, the college achieved the highest gender parity of the 167 public colleges of engineering in the US. In the same year, the graduate programs became ranked at #10 in the US News and World Report for public colleges of engineering. He is the primary author of more than 250 technical reports and articles. 

He has written national guidance documents for the American Associations of State Transportation Officials, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Transportation Research Board. He has performed project delivery and risk-related work for a variety of projects including the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York, the SR520 Floating Bridge in Washington State, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California, the Panama Canal Expansion in Panama, the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in Illinois and South Dakota, and the ITER Fusion Project in France. 

Molenaar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering and Master of Science and Doctoral degrees in Civil Engineering from CU Boulder. Before returning to CU Boulder, he was a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was inducted into the Pan-American Academy of Engineering in 2012 and the National Academy of Construction in 2017 for his leadership in civil engineering research and practice throughout the Americas. He became a Fellow of the Design-Build Institute of America in 2019.

Event Begins: 3:00 PM with a short reception before the presentation!
Location: Aero 120, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building | 3775 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303

A virtual attendance option will be available & the recording will be posted after the event.