Macky Auditorium ceremony.

Fall 2021 Engineering Graduation Ceremony

Dec. 15, 2021

The Engineering Graduation Ceremony celebrates the imminent graduation of College of Engineering and Applied Science bachelor's students, master's students, doctoral students and Computer Science bachelor of arts students. Graduates will be recognized individually by name and take the traditional walk across the stage to receive their diploma cover.

Scott Palo with the QB-50 CubeSat.

CU Boulder lands Air Force grant to design new CubeSat for Earth orbit

Dec. 14, 2021

Scott Palo wants to send RALPHIE to space. RALPHIE the satellite, that is. The U.S. Air Force is providing support to help make it happen...

Morteza Lahijanian

Research In Focus: How Morteza Lahijanian Creates Safety and Soundness in Autonomous Systems

Dec. 13, 2021

Assistant Professor Morteza Lahijanian’s work is at the intersection of safety and soundness in robotics, focusing on developing autonomous systems which operate safely and effectively alongside humans to help improve the well-being of individuals and societies. As the Director of the Assured Reliable Interactive Autonomous (ARIA) Systems Group, Lahijanian oversees...

The RAAVEN UAS flying

Designing flying AI systems to study supercell thunderstorms up close

Dec. 8, 2021

A team of University of Colorado Boulder scientists and engineers have landed a major grant to design next-generation uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to fly into the heart of supercell thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes...

Mark Esper

Seminar: Mark Esper - Former Secretary of Defense - Dec. 15

Dec. 6, 2021

A Future Insight Seminar discussing our changing world, global trends and the value of government service Dr. Mark T. Esper Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Wednesday, Dec. 15 4:30-5:30 p.m. Zoom Webinar - Registration Required Open to CU Boulder students, faculty and staff only. Register with your colorado.edu email address...

DART Illustration

McMahon part of NASA's first-ever mission to redirect the path of an asteroid

Nov. 29, 2021

University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor Jay McMahon is a participating scientist on NASA's DART, or Double Asteroid Redirect Test mission, which launched last week. Denver's 9News spoke with McMahon about the project, which aims to test asteroid deflection technology. DART will travel to and then intentionally crash into the...

Iain Boyd

Boyd discusses Russian missile test with Colorado Public Radio

Nov. 29, 2021

Russia launched a missile and blew up one of its old satellites last week, triggering an alert for the International Space Station and concern that space could become a new battleground. Colorado Public Radio spoke with Iain Boyd, a professor of aerospace engineering sciences and director of the Center for...

Jack Elston

Seminar: Observing an Active Volcano with Unmanned Aircraft: A Pathfinder Mission for Beyond Line-of-Sight Operations - Dec. 3

Nov. 23, 2021

Jack Elston CEO, Black Swift Technologies and Smead Aerospace PhD alumnus Friday, Dec. 3 | 12:00 P.M. | AERO 114 Abstract: In September, a team of Federal scientists and industry engineers pushed back the frontiers of monitoring hazardous volcanoes, flying a small UAS over an active Alaskan volcano. This public-private...

CU Boulder campus from the air.

Seminar: Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling and Design under Uncertainty - Nov 29

Nov. 20, 2021

Subhayan De Postdoctoral Associate, Smead Aerospace Monday, November 29 | 12:00 p.m. | Hybrid - N240 and Zoom Webinar - Register Now Abstract: Models are built to help represent, understand, and further characterize physical systems. In addition, the ubiquitous presence of uncertainties in material properties, geometry, and loading conditions and...

Hanspeter Schaub

Schaub discusses growing space junk problem with Salon

Nov. 15, 2021

Outer space is incomprehensibly vast and empty. Yet over the past century, humans have managed to clutter a region known as low Earth orbit (LEO), which stretches from 125 to 1,200 miles above the surface of the planet, with "space debris." This broad category of man-made objects includes "dead" satellites,...

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