News & Events

Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences will host a spring ceremony for all graduating aerospace students. The event will feature multiple speakers and all graduates will have their name announced and be able to walk across the stage to receive their diploma cover. This event is separate from the campus-wide commencement .

Cole Kenny is focused on an unusual place for an aerospace engineer: underground. A PhD student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Kenny is applying lessons he...

Allie Anderson and Torin Clark at CU Boulder are conducting research into how humans and artificial intelligence systems work together. The pair are part of a multi-university research team commissioned by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study trust in autonomous systems. It is an important and complex...

The National Science Foundation has bestowed eight prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards to University of Colorado Boulder aerospace graduate students. These top awards recognize and support outstanding grad students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees...

The CIRBE CubeSat is live from space after a successful launch and deployment. CIRBE, the Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment nano satellite, is a joint project of the Laboratory for Atmospheric...

Eberhard Gill Chairholder of Space Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology Byram Distinguished Visiting Professor, Smead Aerospace Friday, Apr. 28 | 11:45 a.m. | AERO 120 Abstract: The Delfi Space program at the Delft University of Technology realizes education and research by the end-to-end engineering of space missions of high...

Michael H. Lim PhD Candidate, EECS, University of California, Berkeley Friday, April 28, 2023 | AERO 114 | 2:45 PM Abstract: Sequential decision making under uncertainty mathematically captures the challenge of choosing actions at each step, while accounting for potential rewards and uncertainties an agent may encounter in the future...

Krystal Scordo Astroscale, Inc. Tuesday, May 2 | 4:00 P.M. | Hybrid: Zoom & AERO 111 Free Pizza for Attendees! - RSVP for Pizza Please join Mark Sirangelo as he welcomes Krystal Scordo, a CU Boulder alumna, for a fascinating talk on orbital debris: what it is, what does the...

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences honored graduates and faculty during a special 2023 alumni banquet. Seven graduates were recognized for achievements in education, industry, research, and public service.

The 2023 Senior and Graduate Design Symposium in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences was held Apr. 21, 2023. Student teams presented their projects to industry mentors, friends, family, and faculty in the all day event.