Alex St. Clair and Carson Brumley

CU Engineering students honored with Brooke Owens and Matt Isakowitz Fellowships

March 8, 2018

Two national fellowship programs are honoring CU Engineering students. The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program and Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program each provide industry internships and mentoring opportunities to promising engineering students and both are recognizing CU Boulder students as 2018 fellows. Aerospace junior Carson Brumley has been selected as a 2018...

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CU on the Air podcast: Revolutionary, MOOC-delivered master’s in electrical engineering

March 6, 2018

Host Ken McConnellogue talks with Professor Robert Erickson about what this MOOC has to offer learners across the globe, as well as how it is making us rethink how people learn. He also chats with Michael Lightner, vice president of academic affairs, about the positive impact MOOCs offer learners and the university.

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Ultra-efficient catalyst research earns NSF Special Creativity Award

March 5, 2018

Shankini Doraisingam and Jack Fischer inside Fiske Planetarium.

Bioserve engineer earns NASA Silver Snoopy Award

March 2, 2018

Congratulations to Shankini Doraisingam for receiving the Silver Snoopy Award for her work with astronauts aboard the International Space Station! Doraisingam is an engineer with the University of Colorado Boulder's Bioserve Space Technologies, a center that has designed, built and flown microgravity life science research and hardware on dozens of...

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New aerospace building construction under way

Live view of the Aerospace Building construction site. Refresh page to update. A new building is taking shape on the University of Colorado Boulder’s East Campus, and it’s getting an extra boost thanks to expanding student enrollment. Construction of a 144,000-square-foot dedicated facility for the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace...

Dylan States

Dylan States, MechEngr'20

March 1, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? CU Boulder personally gave me the best opportunity to succeed as an engineer. Being close to a lot of technical fields provides great networking opportunities for my career. What does the #iLookLikeAnEngineer hashtag mean to you? It means that no matter...

Lisa Hardaway (AeroEngr PhD'00)

Engineer of Distinction Award (Posthumous) Lisa Hardaway was chief engineer on the Orion Program at Ball Aerospace and Technologies, overseeing the design, development and test of a suite of sensors used for relative navigation. Prior to this, she was the technical manager for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera...

Jared Leidich (MechEngr'09)

Recent Alumni Award Jared Leidich, a licensed professional engineer, led the design of the life support pack for a state-of-the-art spacesuit that safely carried Google executive Alan Eustace to the stratosphere on three flights. The third flight was the highest altitude a human has ascended to by balloon, the highest...

M. Jeanne Place (AeroEngr'50, MS '65)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award (Posthumous) Category: Industry and Commerce Jeanne Place built a 40-year career at General Electric, becoming an expert in heavy duty gas turbines and compressors and leading testing of compressors in the aerodynamics and performance subsection of GE’s gas turbine department. She was the first female engineering...

Scott McNary (CivEngr'81, MS '84)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce W. Scott McNary has more than 30 years of experience in design, management, construction engineering and inspection of a wide range of concrete and cable-stayed bridges with spans from 40 feet to more than 1,250 feet. He provides innovative and visionary leadership...

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