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  • First generation graduates
    The college of engineering & applied science is honored to recognize the accomplishments of first-generation students as they achieve a new milestone for themselves, their families, and their communities in obtaining a degree from
  • Michelle Lin at Blue Origin.
    Michelle Lin, a graduating senior earning degrees in both aerospace engineering sciences and applied math has received two awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Lin is a 2021 recipient of...
  • Chris Muldrow
    Chris Muldrow has joined the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences as director of the flagship Smead Program. The Smead Program ensures the department attracts and retains the brightest minds in aerospace. It brings
  • National Science Foundation logo
    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
  • Shayna Hume tries on a spacesuit glove that had previously flown to space.
    This weekend, Shayna Hume will blast off on an adventurous journey: The avid space buff, a graduate student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, is heading to Mars (or at least as close to Mars as you
  • Team FLASH
    ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder aerospace students have earned high honors in the 2021 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region V Student Paper competition. Senior design teams from the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace
  • Iain Boyd
    Professor Iain Boyd talked to Axios in a article about the prospect of renewed supersonic travel. The article explores new aerospace startups hoping to bring back the prospect of commercial flights that break the sound barrier. Read the full article
  • A space capsule reentering the atmosphere.
    Researchers at CU Boulder are leading a new $15 million, multi-partner institute with NASA over the next five years to improve entry, descent and landing technologies for exploring other planets. The new Advanced Computational Center for Entry
  • Aerospace building
    At the end of last summer, the Ann & H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences received a letter from graduate students urging faculty and staff to recognize and counteract the role racism has played in the aerospace field and in
  • Sounding Rocket Lab Team
    What does it feel like to work on a project for months and have its success or failure determined in an instant? To move through rigorous, painstaking design and analysis and know it comes down to a single opportunity for success? To spend innumerable late nights...
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