Candace Sulzbach, Lecturer

Colorado School of Mines, B.S. in Mineral Engineering

Candace Sulzbach is a Lecturer in the Division of Engineering where she has taught since August 1983. Candy teaches Mechanics of Materials, Design of Steel Structures, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Field Session - land surveying and Surveying II.

Homepage - http://inside.mines.edu/~csulzbac/
While at Mines, Candy has served on the McBride Honors Tutorial Committee and was a co-instructor for the seminar on Foreign Area Study (Chile) in 2003. It was a great experience to spend a month traveling in Chile with a group of McBride Honors students learning about the Chilean politics, economy and culture. She is also a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Engineering Education on campus and has served on various campus-wide committees.

Candy served as a Metro Area Director on the CSM Alumni Board of Directors from February 2005-2008 and was honored to receive the CSMAA Honorary Membership award in May 2003. This award is given based on a nomination by an alumnus and is given to those “who have rendered distinguished service to the Association and/or the School of Mines.” She has also been honored several times as recipient of the “Outstanding Faculty Member-Civil Engineering” award given by graduating seniors at the CSMAA Senior Banquet during the week of Commencement.

Candy is currently serving as the Faculty Advisor of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student organizations. SWE has nearly 300 members and was the 4th largest collegiate section in the nation last year. The Colorado School of Mines’ SWE section was awarded the distinction of 2nd place as “Outstanding Collegiate Section” for the academic year of 05-06.

ASCE is an active student chapter and has received the “Certificate of Commendation” award for several years. The student members have participated in the concrete canoe and steel bridge competitions since 1995. Candy has been the faculty advisor for 13 years and has received the award of “Outstanding Faculty Advisor – Zone III” four times. While under her guidance, the Mines’ ASCE student chapter hosted the National Concrete Canoe Competition in 2000 and the National Student Steel Bridge Competition in 2004.

Currently, Candy is serving as Secretary of the ASCE Committee on Student Activities which is a national committee charged with overseeing all student chapter activities. As part of her duties on this committee, she served as their representative to the Committee on National Concrete Canoe Competition from 2002-2006. This is the group whose responsibility it is to write the rules and specifications for the National Concrete Canoe Competition, as well as to oversee all regional competitions.

Candy is a member of SWE, ASCE, Tau Beta Pi and is an honorary member of Blue Key. Her family includes her husband, Jim and two children, Rob and Eryn Ammerman.

Current Courses - Fall 2009
EGGN320C - Mechanics of Materials
EGGN491A - Senior Design I