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Aspiring aerospace business leaders: Propel your career with new certificate

Sept. 3, 2019

Do you want to be a business leader in aerospace? The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Engineering Management Program at the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ have teamed up to offer a unique graduate certificate: Engineering Management in the Aerospace Industry. “We’ve developed this certificate for...

Engineering Center with fall colors

Engineering Center first CU building to go plastic-free for beverages

Sept. 3, 2019

This includes both of the Gravity Cafe coffee shops and all of the vending machines in the Engineering Center. The coffee shops will begin to stock compostable cups, lids, straws, plates and silverware for our use, and PepsiCo has replaced all beverages in the vending machines with glass or aluminum containers.

Carlie Charp

Carlie Charp, CTD'22

Sept. 1, 2019

Why did you choose engineering at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ? The University of Colorado has everything and more in terms of what I was hoping for in a university. CU has an engineering program which is among the very best in the nation. CU also has a unique program which is not...

Dean Bobby Braun at computer

First 40 Western Colorado University students enroll in CU Engineering partnership program

Aug. 29, 2019

The highly qualified class includes 28 mechanical engineering students and 15 computer science students, with two-thirds of students hailing from Colorado.

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In push to deep space, human-robot teaming will be key

Aug. 29, 2019

If humans are going to travel further into space – to places like Mars and beyond – the robotic systems involved will have to become more autonomous, shedding costly teams of handlers on Earth and relying more on the astronauts for missions lasting six or more years.

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PhD student Jordan Dixon interviewed for Brainwaves podcast

Aug. 28, 2019

Dixon is working on augmented reality lenses for NASA’s astronauts that could one day help people who are blind.

Rafael Piestun and his students standing in a lab with a laser

Technique detailed in Nature Photonics enables real-time imaging towards use in medical field

Aug. 28, 2019

A new paper in Nature Photonics from researchers at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ details impressive improvements in the ability to control the propagation and interaction of light in complex media such as tissue – an area with many potential applications in the medical field.

Kathy Vega of ShineOn talks to attendees

Catalyze CU Demo Day 2019 showcases startups

Aug. 27, 2019

Twelve weeks ago, six student teams joined the Catalyze CU startup accelerator with innovative concepts and a hunch that their ideas might be marketable. This week, they were proven correct, as all emerged from the program with viable prototypes, waiting customers and vastly improved knowledge of how to successfully launch a startup from scratch.

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VIDEO: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein Q&A with ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ students

Aug. 23, 2019

On Aug. 23, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ where he toured the university's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building. During a whirlwind visit to campus, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine toured ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building , the new home of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of...

Students on a tour of Ball facilities during 2018 career day

Ball Corporation contributes more than $1 million to ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ

Aug. 23, 2019

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ announced two major gifts Thursday from Ball Corporation and its foundation, including a $1 million gift from Ball to support the university’s new Aerospace Engineering Sciences building opening this fall.

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