Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Alumni News - Summer 2021 Alumni Newsletter
Axelrad leading the way through positioning, navigation and timing
Penina Axelrad has built her career pushing the boundaries of GPS technology. As a faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, she has earned accolades from her peers, served in leadership positions, taught hundreds and hundreds of students, been inducted i...
A Career on the Aerospace Edge
Bill Hunter (AeroEng’58) has been on the forefront of technology in rocket engines and spacecraft, shipbuilding, starting multiple business and eventually even becoming an artist. Across a 60-year career, he has been a busy guy...
Five aerospace students earn major National Science Foundation Fellowship
The National Science Foundation has announced five students from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences are 2021 recipients of the presitigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Anton Buynovskiy, Gregory Lund, Robert Sasse, Kieran Smith, and Shu-Yu (Michelle) Lin are...
Building planetary defenses for killer asteroids
Jay McMahon is joining a groundbreaking NASA mission to test asteroid deflection technology. McMahon, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder has been named a participating scientist in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). DART is the first...
Morency takes off with NDSEG fellowship for hypersonics research
Connor Morency has landed a major Department of Defense fellowship to advance the frontiers of high-speed flows. A PhD student and Smead Scholar, Morency has earned a 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), which recognizes...
Watch the Spring 2021 Aerospace Graduation Ceremony
The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences would like to congratulate all 2021 bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of philosophy graduates with this special virtual graduation ceremony in their honor. Although we can't be together to celebrate in person, we ar...