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Smead Aerospace recognizes 2024 alumni award winners

March 25, 2024

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is honoring nine alumni for outstanding contributions to industry, for technical achievement, and public service. The 2024 AeroBuffs Club Alumni Academy inductees are being recognized for work in business, civil, and military aerospace spheres. “Smead Aerospace has outstanding graduates serving...

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Seminar - Taming the Swarm: Toward Robust and Flexible Bio-inspired Autonomy - Apr. 3

March 25, 2024

Anastasia Bizyaeva Postdoctoral Scholar, AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, University of Washington Wednesday, April 3 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: Soon we will share our airspace, roads, homes, offices, warehouse floors, and construction sites with teams of autonomous robots, self-driving vehicles, and delivery drones. In order to coexist...

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Seminar: Multi-spectral Remote Sensing and Retrieval of Snow Algae and Light Absorbing Particles in Snow with Commercial SmallSat data, UAVs, and Robotic Sampling - Apr. 1

March 25, 2024

Alia Khan Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University Monday, April 1 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: The global cryosphere – the frozen water domain – is experiencing unprecedented change. To match this rapid pace, innovative technological approaches and interdisciplinary engineering solutions are needed across disciplines to increase...

Rendering of a satellite orbiting the Earth.

CU Boulder developing space wargames simulation facility

March 20, 2024

University of Colorado Boulder researchers are working to keep America’s armed forces safe in space with a new research grant. Casey Heidrich is leading an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant to develop a...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar - Engineering AI Systems and AI for Engineering: Compositionality and Physics in Learning - Apr. 5

March 13, 2024

Cyrus Neary PhD Candidate, Computational Science, Engineering, and Math, UT Austin RESCHEDULED TO: Friday, April 5 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: How can we transform artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities into engineering systems? That is, how can we engineer AI systems within budget constraints, certify them...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar: Simultaneous Space Mission Design, Control & Guidance - Mar. 20

March 13, 2024

Vishala Arya Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Wednesday, Mar. 20 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: Space missions have always been exciting with rapid innovations and developments to advance science and our engineering capability to match our growing aspirations. With the advent of electric propulsion technology arose the...

CU Boulder from the air.

Seminar: Aiming to Explore Deep Space Through Space Robotics and Technology Demonstrations - Mar. 18

March 11, 2024

Paula do Vale Pereira Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology Monday, Mar. 18 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: Exploring planets and moons in the outer solar system is key to understanding planetary habitability, life formation, and several other questions of multiple scientific domains. However, as we...

 The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps via AP

High-energy laser weapons: How they work, what they are used for

March 7, 2024

Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones. Read from CU defense expert Iain Boyd in The Conversation.

U.S. Navy crews recover the Orion Spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission from where it landed in the Pacific Ocean in December 2022. No human astronauts were aboard.

Space.com spotlights CU Boulder VR research

March 6, 2024

Torin Clark is developing virtual reality systems to help astronauts cope with disorientation and motion sickness, a long underappreciated reality of space exploration. An associate professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Clark is an expert in human sensorimotor/vestibular function and adaptation. Space.com is highlighting...

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Seminar: Probing Thermal Transport and Mechanical Properties in Nano-Enhanced Composites using Novel Deep Ultraviolet Tools - Mar. 11

March 5, 2024

Joshua Knobloch Senior Research Associate, JILA Monday, Mar. 11 | 9:30 a.m. | AERO 111 Abstract: The discovery, integration, and optimization of nano-enhanced functional materials is of paramount importance for space exploration, energy-efficiency, and next-generation microelectronics. Nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, and nanoparticles are used to reinforce carbon-fiber composites...

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