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O'Harra, Katie

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  • Engineering Education, Education Abroad

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  • BMEN 2100 - Biomedical Engineering Principles and Methods
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2026
    This course is an introduction to the fundamental principles and mathematical methods of biomedical engineering. Core conservation equations are applied to mass, energy, charge, and momentum transfer in biomedical systems. Additional topics may cover a breadth of exposure in diagnostics and analytical techniques, statistical analysis of biomedical data, bioinformatics, bioinstrumentation.
  • CHEN 1000 - Creative Technology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
    Delve into cutting-edge topics such as the science of climate change, biotechnology, biomedical devices, advanced materials, renewable energy, and environmental sustainability! This course will introduce undergraduate students to the most recent concepts in technology and how these concepts impact all aspects of life, including human health and the health of the planet.
  • CHEN 1100 - Gourmet Science: Exploring Chemistry, Biology, and Technology through Food
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    This course explores chemistry, biology, and technology fundamentals through food. Ingredients utilized in cooking and baking processes demonstrate a breadth of key science and engineering concepts, intertwined with social significance and historical context. Students will learn about the chemical behaviors and biological interactions of molecules in food, understand critical ratios and reactions in baking and cooking, survey techniques and relevant technology, evaluate industrial and agricultural developments, and analyze global impacts of trade and policy on food science and engineering.
  • CHEN 1203 - General Chemistry for Engineers 2
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
    Designed for students whose academic plans require advanced work in chemistry. Topics include kinetics, solubility/solubility equilibria, acid-bases, buffers and titrations, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. Examples and problems illustrate the application of chemistry to engineering sub-disciplines. AP Chemistry credit not accepted in lieu of any of these prereq classes. Recommended corequisite: CHEM 1221.Degree credit not granted for this course and CHEM 1133 and CHEM 2100.
  • CHEN 1300 - Introduction to Chemical and Biological Engineering
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    Meets for one lecture per week. Examines the different fields of chemical engineering and chemical & biological engineering including energy, materials, pharma, and biomedical; addresses how to be successful in college and engineering; and showcases some of the opportunities here at CU.
  • CHEN 3010 - Applied Data Analysis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024 / Summer 2025
    Teaches students to analyze and interpret data. Topics include engineering measurements, graphical presentation and numerical treatment of data, statistical inference, and regression analysis.
  • CHEN 3220 - Chemical Engineering Separations
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2025
    Studies separation methods including distillation, absorption, extraction, and membranes, and graphical and computer-based solutions to separation problems. Applies mass transfer rate theory to packed and tray columns.
  • COEN 1500 - CEAS First Year Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    The CEAS First Year Seminar is a small, discussion-based course designed to provide incoming first-year students a foundation to thrive as university scholars, meeting with them from their first day of classes through getting back the results of their first round of midterms. The seminar is a combination of a common curriculum (40% ) exploring texts concerning creating an engineering identity, the purpose of an engineering education and the larger values of the college community (mattering, belonging, agency, ownership, inclusivity and service) and a unique curriculum (60%) in which faculty members cultivate these values through their own areas of expertise and interest. This seminar represents the commitment of dedicated faculty to help incoming first-year students become an active and contributing part of the intellectual, inclusive, healthy, inquisitive, diverse, sustainable and socially engaged culture of the College of Engineering.

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