Fall 2022

CU Boulder's Current MiSSE Course As the possibility of landing a person on Mars approaches, engineers and scientists are beginning to explore what it means to live and work on Mars. What types of skills would you need to learn, and who would you bring with you? Would you bring...

To educate students on the importance of engineering ethics, Lucky Vidmar has launched the Moulakis Lecture Series on Responsible Engineering. The lecture series is named after Athanasios “Thanasi” Moulakis, a former CU professor and mentor of Vidmar. In his time teaching at CU, Thanasi was a strong advocate for liberal...

2022 is a groundbreaking year in terms of space exploration for humans. We’ve seen the first images come from the James Webb Space Telescope of which include the Carina Nebula, the Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan’s Quintet, the analysis of the planet WASP-96b, and the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Scientists have...

New Quantum Engineering Initiative to establish ties between JILA research and Industry Applications The University has long been a beacon of innovation in cutting edge physics research, and a new Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) led by Scott Diddams and Greg Reiker aims to focus on applications of this work. The...

For many of us, the daily commute consists of leaving home earlier than we’d like to sit in traffic we’d rather avoid. With high levels of congestion and frequent accidents on our roads, commute times are unpredictable and sometimes there’s nothing to do except be late. With the technology available...

Revisiting Moulakis on the Importance of Liberal Education for Engineers In 1994, Athanasios Moulakis, then Director of CU’s Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers, published a book titled Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age. As he notes in its introduction, Moulakis took up the project of writing the...

Dear Reader, For the past couple of years, our minds have been on the idea of recovery. Here at CU, specifically, recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the wildfires that have devastated our community. Simultaneously as we reach a feeling of normalcy, the University has received a record $658 million...

Increased contamination threatens campus composting program Since 2011, compost has been the main way that CU Boulder takes care of its campus. After the campus discontinued its use of pesticides, they looked to the more sustainable option to care for their grounds. However, compost in the Front Range is in...

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams. Students in STEM often don't associate leadership with science and technology. This is especially true in engineering, where the focus tends to be on math, modeling, and...

Artemis mission signals new era of discovery On April 12, 1961, with a soaring “Poyekhali!” from cosmonaut Gagarin and a boom from a Vostok-K rocket engine, humanity abandoned its status as an exclusively terrestrial species and launched its way towards the stars with the first human to leave the atmosphere...