News & Events

Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences students showcased their senior and graduate student projects on April 15, 2022. Teams presented their work in executive summaries in the morning and exhibited their projects in the afternoon in an informal poster session and demonstration of their prototypes.

Iain Boyd discusses the development and use of hypersonic weapons in a new column in The Conversation. Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and director of the CU Boulder Center for National Security Initiatives , is a leading national researcher in hypersonic aerothermodynamics. Hypersonic weapons present unique challenges to...

Dr. Joanna Hinks Principal Investigator - Navigation Technology Satellite - 3 Space Vehicles Directorate, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 3:30PM | AERO N250 Abstract: Navigation Technology Satellite – 3 (NTS-3) is an advanced satellite navigation flight experiment that will mature next generation technologies across space,...

The National Science Foundation has awarded five prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships to University of Colorado Boulder Smeed Aerospace graduate students. This top award recognize and supports outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. Honorees...

University of Colorado Boulder senior design teams have earned high marks at the 2022 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences took first and third place in the competition, which was held...

Dennis Akos Professor, Smead Aerospace Wednesday, April 13 | 3:30 P.M. | Zoom - Register Now Abstract: Android devices sales have total over 1 billion devices every year since 2014 through 2021. That alone, not accounting for prior 2014, is well over 8 billion devices. The reduction of Size Weight...

Jade Morton Professor and Director of CCAR, Smead Aerospace Monday, April 11 | 3:30 P.M. | Hybrid: AERO 111 and Zoom - Register Now Abstract: GPS/GNSS has impacted nearly every aspect of our modern society. Yet, it relies on extremely low power signals traversing a vast space to reach receivers...

The University of Colorado Boulder has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to advance the science of hypersonic flight. The grant will investigate plasma that forms around sub-orbital vehicles traveling at...

Kurt Maute Professor and Palmer Engineering Chair, Smead Aerospace Wednesday, April 6 | 3:30 P.M. | Hybrid: AERO 114 and Zoom Webinar Abstract: Topology optimization has emerged as a promising and powerful approach to design engineered materials and components that utilize the ability of advanced manufacturing methods to realize complex...

Jeff Thayer Professor - Smead Aerospace, and Director of SWx-TREC Monday, April 4 | 3:30 P.M. | Hybrid: AERO 111 and Zoom - Register Now Abstract: A common phrase in the vernacular of the NASA Heliophysics Science Mission Directorate is to study the Sun-Earth system from “Sun to mud”. Curiously...