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Tory Bruno is one of the world’s foremost experts in rocket technology and the launch industry. As the president and chief executive officer for United Launch Alliance (ULA), Bruno serves as principal strategic leader of the organization and oversees all business management and operations.

Lakshmi Kantha was interview by the Wall Street Journal for a new video on the Boeing X-37B. The uncrewed military space plane can stay aloft for over a year and recently started a new, classified mission. Kantha is a professor emeritus in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace...

Robyn Macdonald is pushing the limits of hypersonic research with a new NASA grant. Macdonald, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been awarded a $600,000 Early Career award from NASA to improve computational modeling of...

Pete Worden Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, Former Director of NASA Ames Friday, Jan. 19 | 10:40 a.m. | AERO 120 The Breakthrough Initiatives are a suite of scientific space exploration programs searching for signatures of life beyond Earth. These efforts include Breakthrough Listen, a search for technosignatures and...

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 5:30-7 p.m. • AERO 120 Smead Aerospace invites you to attend a special workshop on the broad range of career opportunities in aerospace engineering. We have assembled a panel of three aerospace professionals who will discuss exciting and innovative accomplishments in our field, share experiences from...

Aviation Week has announced two University of Colorado Boulder aerospace students as members of the "Class of 2024 20 Twenties Winners." The program recognizes leading engineering students at universities across the USA and around the world who are "on course to change the face of the aviation, aerospace and defense...

Nisar Ahmed was interviewed for a new feature in Aerospace America magazine. A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Q&A article discusses challenges and opportunities in artificial intelligence and machine learning for aerospace systems. Ahmed is an associate professor of aerospace and Smead Faculty Fellow...

Michael J. Frazier (AeroEngr MS’11, PhD’15) discovered the dream engineering job he never knew he was looking for: university professor. In high school, as an undergraduate, and even as a master’s student, Frazier was sure an industry job was in his future, but a drive for more knowledge and research sent him down a different path...

Dezell Turner loves orbital design; a critical step in planning any space mission, and he is plotting out a way to streamline the complex process with an interactive, augmented reality tool. “The current methods of trajectory design for cislunar space – missions that go beyond low Earth orbit to the...

Delores Knipp was interviewed for a feature article in the Washington Post. Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is an expert on solar wind-geospace coupling and space weather and has written extensively about historic solar storms. The Washington Post article focuses...