The Aerospace Building

Welcoming four new faculty to Smead Aerospace

Aug. 24, 2023

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder is welcoming four new faculty members for 2023-2024. Meet the team and see why we're so excited about these talented individuals:

Rhode with two students and a rocket.

High school rockets take off with Smead Aerospace

Oct. 11, 2022

Matt Rhode was in Weld County last week, working with nearly 100 high school robotics and physics students, giving them hands-on experience launching rockets and collecting scientific data. Rhode, an instructor and manufacturing lab manager in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, led a rocket lab...

Matt Rhode with a student and their rocket.

Teaching aerospace through model rockets with Windsor High School

Oct. 14, 2021

Students at Windsor High School in northern Colorado were given the opportunity to combine rocket science with studying altitudes and velocities. Matt Rhode, Smead Aerospace mechanical design & manufacturing lab manager met with a group of high school students to teach them about physics through rocket launches. See the full...