Alexander Fiel
Undergraduate student
ATLAS Institute
alexander.fiel@colorado.edu

Alex Fiel is a听senior in the TAM program听and is a temporary听assistant in听the BTU lab, where he loves experimenting with new materials and learning new tools. He is also the lab manager for the Tinkering, Building &听Designing (TBD) Lab for the 2019-2020 academic year.听听His most recent collaboration, "Chartreuse,"听with TAM student Anna Lynton听was featured in听听and听.听

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In the news

Alex Fiel on a suspension bridge.
Class of 2020: Alex Fiel

May 11, 2020

Alex Fiel is a near-constant presence in the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 hacker and maker spaces. Having created projects that have attracted the attention of the national hacking/making community, Alex graduates with a TAM major and is a recipient of ATLAS Institute's Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

A tape measure clock with a view of the outside and inside.
CTD students' project featured in Hackaday

April 28, 2020

TAM students Alex Fiel and Anna Lynton took a tape measure and turned it into a clock, programming it to move over the course of the day to show the time in hours (inches). The largest challenge became minifying the electronics and keeping the overall footprint of the device to roughly the size of the real object.

Solar Arcade
ATLAS class culminates in Fiske Planetarium exhibits

Jan. 30, 2020

A one-of-a kind class, 鈥淪tudio: Design an Immersive Science Exhibit,鈥� taught by Mark Gross, Annie Bruns and Wayne Seltzer from ATLAS, and instructors from Fiske Planetarium and the National Solar Observatory, culminated in permanent exhibits within CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium.