The Aerospace Building

Panel and Q&A - Charting Your Course: Navigating Careers in Aerospace - Jan. 24

Jan. 5, 2024

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 5:30-7 p.m. • AERO 120 Smead Aerospace invites you to attend a special workshop on the broad range of career opportunities in aerospace engineering. We have assembled a panel of three aerospace professionals who will discuss exciting and innovative accomplishments in our field, share experiences from...

Singh and Turner

Two CU Boulder aerospace students honored by Aviation Week

Jan. 4, 2024

Aviation Week has announced two University of Colorado Boulder aerospace students as members of the "Class of 2024 20 Twenties Winners." The program recognizes leading engineering students at universities across the USA and around the world who are "on course to change the face of the aviation, aerospace and defense...

Nisar Ahmed

Ahmed discusses artificial intelligence systems with Aerospace America

Jan. 2, 2024

Nisar Ahmed was interviewed for a new feature in Aerospace America magazine. A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Q&A article discusses challenges and opportunities in artificial intelligence and machine learning for aerospace systems. Ahmed is an associate professor of aerospace and Smead Faculty Fellow...

Michael J. Frazier (center) with his PhD advisor Mahmoud Hussein (right) and his PhD advisee Jack Pechac at the ASME IMECE 2023 conference.

PhD grad training next generation of aerospace leaders

Dec. 8, 2023

Michael J. Frazier (AeroEngr MS’11, PhD’15) discovered the dream engineering job he never knew he was looking for: university professor. In high school, as an undergraduate, and even as a master’s student, Frazier was sure an industry job was in his future, but a drive for more knowledge and research sent him down a different path...

Dezell Turner

PhD student designing augmented reality for space missions

Dec. 6, 2023

Dezell Turner loves orbital design; a critical step in planning any space mission, and he is plotting out a way to streamline the complex process with an interactive, augmented reality tool. “The current methods of trajectory design for cislunar space – missions that go beyond low Earth orbit to the...

Surface of the sun

Knipp talks historic solar storm with the Washington Post

Dec. 4, 2023

Delores Knipp was interviewed for a feature article in the Washington Post. Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is an expert on solar wind-geospace coupling and space weather and has written extensively about historic solar storms. The Washington Post article focuses...

James Warner

Seminar - A.I. for Aerospace: Bridging the Gap Between Data-Driven and Physics-Based Modeling - Dec. 1

Nov. 23, 2023

James Warner Senior Computational Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center Friday, Dec. 1 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped industries like tech, finance, and medicine and is now widely accessible to the general public, with examples like ChatGPT and Midjourney. However, applying AI in physical...

A SPOT robot navigating autonomously.

Building next generation autonomous robots to serve humanity

Nov. 17, 2023

One thousand feet underground, a four-legged creature scavenges through tunnels in pitch darkness. With vision that cuts through the blackness, it explores a spider web of paths, remembering its every step and navigating with precision. The sound of its movements echo eerily off the walls, but it is not to...

Karen Martinez Soto

Seminar: Drone and Small VTOL Vehicle Design - Nov. 28

Nov. 16, 2023

Karen Martinez Soto PhD Candidate, Engineering Education, Virginia Tech Tuesday, Nov. 28 | 8:30 a.m. | AERO N240 Abstract: In an era where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral to various industries, understanding the intricacies of their design is essential to future aerospace engineers. This talk focused on the...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar: Aircraft Design, Aircraft Constraint Diagram - Nov. 27

Nov. 16, 2023

Jacky Cai PhD Candidate, Aerospace Engineering, University of Dayton Monday, Nov. 27 | 9:35 a.m. | AERO 232 Abstract: The lecture will focus on the introduction of the aircraft constraint diagram, which is an essential part of the initial aircraft sizing. Coming to the class, the student would have their...

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