May 25
@CSUAmyParsons @ColoradoStateAD maybe we can waive those last 4 credit hours Lewis "Dude" Dent needs for his @CSUEngineering degree?
May 25
37 Days Until the @CSURams join the @pac12! š
For Day 37, we are bypassing the roster math on this Memorial Day to honor a true American hero and Colorado State multi-sport legend. šŗšø
#1 Lewis "Dude" Dent (1939-1943) ā The 1943 Mountain States "Best All-Around Athlete" was a bruising All-Conference fullback, basketball starter, and track star at CSU from Craig, CO.
Dentās legacy at CSU went beyond his athletic dominance. CSU legend John Mosley later remembered Dent as a "great friend" who broke the color line and supported his teammate against the prejudice Mosley faced in the sport.
In 1943, Dent was drafted by the (NFL) Brooklyn Dodgers. Instead, and reportedly just four credits shy of his engineering degree at CSU, Dent answered the call to active duty during WWII.
Serving as an Army Second Lieutenant and forward artillery observer under General Patton's Third Army, he was killed in action by machine-gun fire on August 25, 1944, during the liberation of Troyes, France. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for gallantry.
#Pac12Countdown #GoRams #MemorialDay
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May 19
LLM inference is now ~90% of the lifecycle energy of a deployed model. Training is no longer the bill. Serving is. A new paper from Colorado State @HPE_labs (arXiv:2605.13496, 13 May 2026) reframes the problem.
Don't optimize sustainability as a weighted sum. Schedule it as a game.
MARLIN. Four RL agents ā TTFT, carbon, water, cost ā each own one metric and run SAC FiLM HER in parallel. Phase 1: every agent proposes its best plan over the next 15-min epoch. Phase 2: a weighted-resource game Ī blends them. Capital Cā±¼ buys influence. Utility Qā±¼ ranks long-term value. Veto threshold Ī“ā±¼ stops any agent from being silently traded away.
Numbers vs 8 SOTA baselines (Helix, Splitwise, NSGA-II, PerLLM, SLIT, QLearning, DDQN, ActorCritic):
ā¢ ā18% TTFT
ā¢ ā33% carbon emissions
ā¢ ā43% water usage
ā¢ ā11% energy cost
ā¢ Pareto hypervolume 100% vs ā¤68% for next-best RL framework
Why it lands in production. MARLIN is a meta-scheduler above K8s / vLLM ā it doesn't touch the model or the serving kernel, only routes requests across geo-distributed datacenters. Five presets (Balanced 4 single-metric variants) let you change posture per epoch with no retraining.
For tech leaders: routing across DCs has a 30ā40% sustainability delta that no kernel optimization can match. And capital-as-audit-trail turns "why did carbon spike?" into a named agent with a measurable record.
cc @dejanm @ColoradoStateU @CSUEngineering
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.13496
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Huge thanks to the incredible presenters at our annual Research Ethics Conference last week, including @citizencyborg and speakers from @CUEngineering and @CSUEngineering,. They explored topics from wearable tech to wastewater surveillance. We can't wait for the next one!
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13 Aug 2025
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"Quite a large thunderstorm was formed because of the heat from the Lee Fire,ā explained Kyle Hilburn, research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, which is part of @CSUEngineering.
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4 Jun 2025
Andrew Badza (left) and Sanad Alburgan (right), senior civil engineering students from Cleveland State Universityās Washkewicz College of Engineering, discuss their capstone design project to replace an aging Ohio Turnpike maintenance building during a presentation to members of the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission at last monthās meeting in Berea. The capstone project integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills in civil engineering to address a real-world infrastructure challenge. In collaboration with Ohio Turnpike staff, the students designed a functional, sustainable, and cost-effective solution to meet the commissionās operational and staffing requirements. #CSUEngineering #CLEstate #WeAreCLEState
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6 May 2025
Our community members received outstanding @CSUEngineering 2025 awards:
šChristine Chiu | Art Corey Award for Outstanding International Contributions
šPeter Jan van Leeuwen | George T. Abell Outstanding Faculty Research Award
šBrenda Dolan | Outstanding Researcher Award
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21 Apr 2025
E-Days put the spotlight on the ingenuity of our @CSUEngineering students!
While hundreds of students filled the LSC ballrooms to share their innovations with our CSU community, Provost Underwood & I were able to engage with a handful of the many impressive projects on display.
ALT President Amy Parsons stands with a group of students, faculty and staff during E-Days. They are gathered in front of student project displays inside the LSC.
ALT A student and President Amy Parsons pose beside a project poster titled ā3D Printing Fibrocartilage Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Cellulose.ā The poster presents research on tissue engineering.
ALT President Amy Parsons speaks with two students at their E-Days project booth in the LSC ballrooms. One student demonstrates a nerve block training kit in front of a project poster.
ALT Four people stand smiling in front of an indoor greenhouse system with leafy greens growing under lights. Three students from CSU pose alongside President Amy Parsons.
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16 Apr 2025
.@CSUEngineering student and amputee Garrison, alongside fellow biomedical engineering students, has helped design the Goldilocks Footāan innovative, 3D-printed prosthetic that prioritizes comfortability and energy return.
Learn moreā”ļø col.st/udcNd
ALT Two students sitting on sofa chairs, holding prosthetic feet, smiling. Placed on a table in front of them are two models of the internal structure of the prosthetic feet.
ALT A close-up of the prosthetic foot developed by CSU students in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering.
ALT A student helps put prosthetic foot on a fellow student.
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15 Apr 2025
E-Days is where Ram engineers show what theyāre made of.
Every year, seniors from across @CSUEngineering bring their big ideas to life to solve real-world problems with creativity, purpose, and serious skill.
ALT Three students interact with a life-sized R2-D2 replica at C S Uās E-Days event. One student takes a photo while the other two stand smiling near the droid in a busy indoor workspace filled with tables and attendees.
ALT Student seated at a table demonstrates a robotic arm that holds a white cup. The table includes a decorated laptop and water bottle, with a second student observing from across the table during the E-Days showcase.
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6 Mar 2025
Kristen Rasmussen, Associate Professor, @CSUEngineering:
Her lab at CSU centers on the weather-climate interface to further study the dynamics of convective storms and how they may change in a future climate.
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17 Feb 2025
Rear Admiral Lincoln Reifsteck stopped by CSU to talk about careers in Navy nuclear propulsion! Students learned how they can get paid while in school, earn a $30K bonus, & secure a job before graduation.
Read more: engr.source.colostate.edu/csā¦
#CSUEngineering #NavyPropulsion #CSU
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We're at the @CSUEngineering Spring Career Fair today! Stop by table 88, in the Lory Student Center, to learn about the services we offer & what itās like to be part of our team! #CivilEngineering #EngineeringCareers #LifeAtGCW
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11 Feb 2025
Since 2016, the percentage of graduate students identifying as Black in our department has increased from about 1ļøā£ percent to 8ļøā£ percent.
Our program, ranked one of the top in the country, includes students conducting research on a wide range of topics. š”š°ļøš”ļøāļøāļøš§Ŗš
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11 Feb 2025
Being a Black meteorologist means that there is a good chance you are the first to reach a given achievement said Alan Sealls. Our Associate Professor Melissa Burt knows what it means to pave the way as part of @CSUEngineering leadership.
šø: Burt and Sealls
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31 Jan 2025
A huge thank you to Stene Verhulst, Director of CSUās International Enrollment Center, for his work in arranging this impactful trip, and to Dr. Allen Robinson for representing @CSUEngineering.
ALT President Amy Parsons posing for a picture with a group of people, Stene Verhulst and Dr. Allen Robinson in Saudi Arabia.
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17 Jan 2025
This week @CSUEngineering Professor Elizabeth Barnes was recognized by The @WhiteHouse with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! Congrats Professor Barnes!
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17 Jan 2025
Atmospheric Science alumnaĀ Elizabeth J. Thompson, research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also received the Presidential Early Career Award this year.Ā Professor Michael BellĀ received the award in 2017.
@NOAA
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17 Jan 2025
She is one of 400 scientists recognized by one of 14 federal agencies for the Presidential honor. She was nominated by theĀ U.S. National Science Foundation.
@NSF | @CSUEngineering
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Read more about the @ColoradoStateU awards: engr.source.colostate.edu/amā¦
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