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Congratulations to Steve Jolly and Scott Palo for being recognized with 2019 College of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards (DEAA) . DEAA honors graduates and friends who have distinguished themselves through outstanding personal qualities, knowledge, and significant contributions to their fields. Award winners may fall into several...

Sixteen faculty and staff members, including Smead Aerospace Instructor John Mah are being recognized for the positive impact they have made on their students through the Marinus Smith awards. Overall, over 80 nominations were received from students and their families. The awards are presented each spring to faculty and staff...

Project TORUS – or Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells – is a partnership between CU Boulder, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (which is leading the work), Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma and the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Funding comes from the National Science Foundation and the...

Congratulations to Senior Design Team VANTAGE for earning a People's Choice Award at the 2019 CU Engineering Projects Expo. The event, held Friday, April 26, at the Indoor Practice Facility, featured teams from across the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

University of Colorado Boulder students have swept the 2019 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region 5 Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences earning first, second, and third place at the April conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The teams and...

Five Smead Aerospace graduate students are receiving special recognition for their contributions to research and teaching. The 2019 John A. Vise award is presented annually to two Aerospace PhD students for demonstrated excellence in academics, research, and community service. The 2019 honorees are Mike Lotto and Kirsten Strandjord. In addition,...

Jay McMahon has earned a NASA early career fellowship to help ensure future missions to Mars can land safely. McMahon, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, has received a three year, $600,000 NASA Space Technology Research...

Congratulations to Aerospace graduate student Reider Larsen for being named the 2019 University of Colorado Boulder Student Employee of the Year. He was nominated by Gina Lafferty and Lee Reedy, from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)-Mission Operations where Reidar works as a Graduate Research Assistant – Mission...

I have always wanted to be an astronaut. When it came time to apply to colleges I knew I wanted to go to a top aerospace university. As a Colorado native it was an easy choice to attend CU. As a small, blonde, female cheerleader, #ILookLikeAnEngineer is all about breaking...

CU Boulder researchers are taking a deep dive into the realm of autonomous submarines through a Small Business Technology Transfer contract sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The work, which entered phase two last month, pairs the University of Colorado Boulder Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles center...