Awards

Congratulations to BS/MS student Alan Sanchez for earning the University of Colorado Boulder 2018 Forever Buffs Student Award. The annual distinction honors students who demonstrate the "Forever Buffs tenets of connecting, contributing and celebrating their CU pride through extraordinary service to the university." Alan Sanchez thinks far ahead in time...

Science and engineering isn’t all equations and calculations. Policy is increasingly playing a hand in what guides the technical world. That’s why CU Engineering in partnership with the CU Office of Government Relations and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research have teamed up with Colorado state representatives Chris...

The University of Colorado Boulder has earned second place in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. The engineering design competition enlists university teams from across the nation to develop creative solutions to some of the agency’s most relevant challenges. In 2017, NASA called for proposals for large power...

The Space Research Company, founded by aerospace PhD candidate Christine Fanchiang, and research associate Luis Zea placed second in a national pitch competition in Los Angeles. The RECESS National Pitch Competition was held in June in Los Angeles. Fanchiang and Zea's company is a startup out of CU Boulder that...

Congratulations to students Markus Geiss, Trevor Bennett, and Thomas Green for being named to the '20 Twenties to Watch' list by Aviation Week for 2016! They were recognized at a March ceremony in Washington D.C. The award honors top engineering, math, science and technology students. Bennett and Geiss are aerospace...