Darren McSweeney

Darren McSweeney started his career at the University of Colorado’s Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, an engineering laboratory dedicated to hands-on learning. Darren helped manage and support the computer systems, helped coordinate lab activities, led the technical team, and taught workshops and classes. While at the lab, Darren helped to develop many of the lab’s technologies, including the student account processing system, machine shop student database software, and hands-on learning modules. He also became known amongst the students as the resident LabVIEW guru, teaching workshops and advising students throughout the school.

He next moved on to industry, where he developed distributed instrumentation systems for the engineering consulting firm BMTWBM. Darren was lead developer for the Pulse Dragline Monitoring System, an advanced system for monitoring safety and productivity of mining equipment. The system is used at some of the nation’s major mining sites.

Darren has received the University of Colorado’s Commitment to Excellence award for his dedication to education and hands-on learning.