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- Congratulations to the Smead Aerospace Class of 2020! We are celebrating our outstanding degree candidates with a special virtual commencement ceremony, and are recognizing numerous students and teams for special achievements. All individual awards
- Now that he’s more than a month into online learning, Scott Palo is glad that he and his grad students put some thought into their strategy of “grabbing a bunch of stuff” before leaving campus. For Palo’s students at the University of Colorado in
- Elliott Davis is graduating from Smead Aerospace with his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science as well as an extra feather in his cap, a 2020 College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Undergraduate for Research Award. His next step is Lockheed Martin Space, where he will...
- Professor Iain Boyd is hoping new materials research funding from the U.S. Navy will lead to better understanding and management of heat transfer in hypersonic vehicles through the use of ultra-high-temperature ceramics. Boyd, who is based in the
- Jarrod Puseman is graduating from Smead Aerospace with his bachelor's as one of three 2020 students in the department having earned an Outstanding Undergraduate for Academic Achievement Award after completing his degree with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
He plans to continue with CU Boulder in the... - Smead Program Director Lewis Groswald has earned a 2020 Research and Innovation Office Seed Grant. The project is one of 25 being funded by the Seed Grant program. The awards signify an investment in the future
- Aaron Aboaf is leading a team of students on a million-dollar satellite development project to advance space communications technology — all from his childhood bedroom in Aurora, Colorado.
Working entirely via Zoom, remote desktop connections, and... - Five students in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences are being recognized with 2020 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) fellowships. The annual program sponsors U.S. citizen and permanent resident graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new...
- It sounds like the start of a bad joke: a rocket scientist and a chemical engineer walk into a bar. It’s actually the daily routine at FlyteCo Brewing, a 1-year-old Denver microbrewery started by two engineering alumni. Broomfield native Eric Serani
- When James “Jim” McRoberts retired from Boeing as the chief test pilot of commercial airplanes, he began to volunteer at several organizations. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, he eventually heard about the Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, a