Aaron Brown

Aaron Brown is an associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver in the Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Systems Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a certificate in Engineering for Developing Communities and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He has directed much of his work towards a focus in the areas of Appropriate Design, Humanitarian Engineering, Humanitarian Technology and Sustainable Design. At MSU Denver he has developed curriculum and directed undergraduate research around these topics and also established a humanitarian engineering club that engages students in service-learning engineering activities that benefit vulnerable communities.  Dr. Brown has worked on projects that help vulnerable people both at the local level and in locations all over the globe. His work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Denver post, and in other local and national level media.  Hee was named "Community Game Changer" by CBS Denver. He is also the recipient of the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Award which recognizes work  “for the greater good”. He was awarded this for his efforts to promote social justice and peace through capacity building in vulnerable communities.

Previous to his academic career Aaron Brown worked in the aerospace industry on such projects as the landing mechanism for NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission, the Hubble Robotics project, the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GMI)  and at The National Institute of Standards and Technology in superconductor research.