Fire test in a wind tunnel.

Burning up: CU researchers use unique wind tunnel to study wildfires

Sept. 16, 2019

Researchers at CU Boulder are using computations and experiments in a new sloping wind tunnel to study how wildfires form and move across different landscapes; applying cutting edge research tools to understand an old problem that Colorado has become quite familiar with in recent years. Associate Professor Peter Hamlington leads...

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral John B. Nowell Jr. and CU Boulder alumnus, astronaut and Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Scholar in Residence Jim Voss talk during the visit. CEAS/ Josh Rhoten

Navy visit to college highlights growing partnership around students

Sept. 13, 2019

Senior U.S. Navy officers visited the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science Thursday, highlighting a growing partnership that’s driving student success, leadership opportunities and career pathways. Dean Bobby Braun welcomed Vice Admiral John B. Nowell Jr. and Rear Admiral Brendan R. McLane to campus with tours of the...

Aerospace building.

Smead Aerospace #6 among public undergraduate programs in latest US News rankings

Sept. 9, 2019

Five undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 20 for 2020. The College of Engineering and Applied Science’s undergraduate programs continued their rise this year in U.S. News and World Report ’s annual rankings. Overall, the college came in at No. 16 among our public university peers, improved from last...

Tomoko Matsuo

Seminar - From Earth to the Edge of Space: How Data Assimilation Advances the Science and Engineering of Forecasting Near-Earth Space Environments - Sept. 18

Sept. 9, 2019

Tomoko Matsuo Assistant Professor, Smead Aerospace Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 | AERO 111 | 2:30 P.M. Abstract: Prediction serves as the ultimate test of our scientific understanding of geophysical systems. Accurate forecasting of near-Earth space environmental conditions is critical to radio communication, navigation, positioning, and satellite tracking. Effective numerical prediction...

Katie Bretl

My summer vacation at NASA: artificial gravity research gets a new spin at Johnson Space Center

Sept. 6, 2019

The feeling just doesn’t go away. Seven summers at NASA and I still got chills driving through the gate on my first day back at NASA Johnson Space Center earlier this summer. I’ve previously interned at NASA’s Langley Research Center and Ames Research Center – both incredible experiences working with...

A group of alumni at the AeroBuffs event.

Flickr Album: AeroBuffs Kickoff

Sept. 5, 2019

Smead Aerospace launched our new AeroBuffs alumni club August 26, 2019 to celebrate the grand opening of the new Aerospace Building at CU Boulder.

The CU Boulder campus and the Flatiron Mountains.

Aspiring aerospace business leaders: Propel your career with new certificate

Sept. 3, 2019

Do you want to be a business leader in aerospace? The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado Boulder have teamed up to offer a unique graduate certificate: Engineering Management in the Aerospace Industry. “We’ve developed this certificate...

Milky Way Galaxy

In push to deep space, human-robot teaming will be key

Aug. 30, 2019

NASA’s robotic space exploration missions are highly choreographed and rehearsed. Built around duplicate systems and repeated simulations, no detail is left unplanned for. The idea is to lower the risk to highly valuable and Irreplaceable equipment thousands of miles from physical support. But if humans are going to travel further...

MTS Materials Testing Machine.

Major upgrades to the CU Boulder Aerospace Manufacturing Shops

Aug. 30, 2019

The Smead Aerospace manufacturing shops have made major upgrades to kickoff the 2019-2020 academic year. Enrollment has more than doubled in the last ten years, but space constraints in the Engineering Center prevented significant expansion of the department's footprint to accommodate that growth or to add new machining and production...

Jordan Dixon

Brainwaves Podcast: Talking augmented reality lenses for NASA’s astronauts

Aug. 28, 2019

Smead Aerospace PhD student Jordan Dixon is featured in the latest edition of Brainwaves, CU Boulder's podcast. Dixon is involved in the NASA SUITS Challenge, a design competition that aims to bring augmented reality enhancements to astronauts on spacewalks. The technology has out of this world goals, but could eventually...

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