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A drone in the air

Smead Aerospace will house new NSF IUCRC on autonomous air mobility and sensing

A major research center on autonomous air mobility and sensing has been founded at CU Boulder, in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Read more about Smead Aerospace will house new NSF IUCRC on autonomous air mobility and sensing

The Aerospace Graduation Ceremony.
Flickr Album: 2022 Aerospace Graduation Ceremony Photos
Award winning students
Smead Aerospace Class of 2022 Awards
 NASA's Pam Melroy tours an aerospace engineering lab on the CU Boulder campus.
From cockpit to campus: NASA’s Melroy talks moon, inclusivity, more at CU Boulder
Department of Defense Seal
Three aerospace students earn major Department of Defense fellowship
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Be groundbreaking.

CU Boulder is the place for aerospace. Our students and faculty are pushing the limits of aeronautics and astronautics research, designing next generation unmanned aircraft, expanding the possibilities of remote sensing, and building space instruments and satellites for orbit around Earth and beyond.

We are home to 56 tenure-track, research, and instructional faculty, over 500 graduate students and 1,000 undergraduates.

#1

Public University for
NASA Research Funds

2nd

Colorado is the 2nd Largest
Aerospace Economy in the USA

#6

Ranked Public Aerospace
Undergraduate Program

#5

Ranked Public Aerospace
Graduate Program

A dedicated place for aerospace

We have a 180,000-square-foot aerospace engineering sciences building providing world-class learning and research space. Completed in 2019, it contains unique laboratory facilities, collaborative research environments, and immersive educational opportunities.

Colorado is a hub of our nation's aerospace industry, and this facility further positions CU Boulder at the center of the innovation ecosystem.

Learn more about the building and our programs  

Research Focus Areas

MAVEN illlustration

Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation Systems

Students working on a fixed wing UAV.

Autonomous Systems

Student inside the bioastronautics space station habitat.

Bioastronautics

Rendering

Fluids, Structures and Materials

Professor Scott Palo in Antarctica

Remote Sensing, Earth and Space Sciences

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