CS@Mines Blog
Fall 2021 Updates
Computer Science at Mines has grown again! CS@Mines became the 2nd largest department at Mines last year and just continues to grow. As of this fall semester, Mines now has 987 CS undergraduate students, 121 CS graduate students, 25 Robotics, and 32 Data Science graduate students!
Colorado School of Mines is making national headlines, too! Mines is the top national university in Colorado and the #33 public university in the United States (U.S. News and World Report rankings). CS@Mines also jumped from #68 to #60 in Best Undergraduate CS Programs.
Within our program, students can pave their path for their undergraduate journey. CS@Mines allows students to choose one of the following flexible paths:
– CS General
– CS + Data Science
– CS + Computer Engineering
– CS + Robotics and Intelligent Systems
– CS + Business
– CS + Research Honors
– CS + Space (added Fall 2021!)
Read more about each track here
In addition to offering a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Mines students from any major can apply to earn both their Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree simultaneously. Learn more about it here!
For non-CS majors, CS@Mines now offers a direct path to a CS Master’s degree via a new CS@Mines Bridge program. Students in this program complete foundational undergraduate courses in one year to prepare for Master’s level coursework. Learn more about the CS@Mines Bridge program here. Please share this program with anyone who’d like to “break into tech”!
Recent Student News
In student news, three CS@Mines students participated in the HackUMBC remote hackathon and won a prize for the “Best use of secured cloud technologies” given by General Dynamics Mission Systems. Two CS@Mines students joined three other CS@Mines students as Department of Defense Cyber Scholars! Also, two CS@Mines teams (six students) advanced to the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) North American Divisional Championship!
Recent Faculty News
Dr. Jeff Paone was promoted from Teaching Associate Professor to Teaching Professor.
Dr. Hao Zhang received the DARPA Young Faculty Award to improve robot teamwork.
Dr. Tom Williams was awarded an NSF Career Award to improve robotic communication skills.
Drs. Mehmet Belviranli, Jedidiah McClurg, and Neil Dantam received an NSF grant of $750k to improve the embedded systems design process.
Dr. Tracy Camp’s 1997 paper titled, “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline” received the 2021 ACM SIGCSE’s Test of Time Award.
Dr. Iris Bahar at Brown University is the incoming CS@Mines Department Head and Professor, starting in January 2022. Dr. Tracy Camp steps down in December and will then head off on a much-deserved sabbatical!
Three new amazing CS@Mines faculty started this August: Dr. Gabriel Fierro (Assistant Professor), Kathleen Kelly (Teaching Associate Professor), and Dr. Rob Thompson (Teaching Assistant Professor). CS@Mines is thrilled to have them join us!
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