Smead Aerospace Alumni News - Summer 2023 Alumni Newsletter
Hanspeter Schaub earns CU Boulder’s highest award for teaching and research
Hanspeter Schaub has a passion for exploring the unknown—peering into uncharted areas of aerospace to push the boundaries of science and engineering. As a professor and chair of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, Schaub has made a career at the fore...
Anderson lands prestigious NSF CAREER research award to study human-autonomy interactions
Allie Anderson is probing trust in human-robot interactions with a major grant provided to promising early career faculty. Anderson has earned a $675,000 National Science...
CU Boulder drone cargo senior project wins national award
Team DROPS has earned first place in the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech International Student Conference for their senior design project. DROPS, which stands for Drone Recharging Operational Payload System, received top...
CU Boulder joins academic partnership with U.S. Space Command
The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected as a United States Space Command Academic Engagement Enterprise member. The new national program is designed to expand collaboration and academic exchanges between universities and U.S. Space Command. “They’re engaging with top universities in the...
Building a one-of-a-kind plasma wind tunnel to advance hypersonics at CU Boulder
Hisham Ali is pushing the limits of plasma physics and hypersonics in his lab on campus to advance a nationally important area of science and engineering. Ali, an assistant professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, studies...
CU Boulder students compete in international hyperloop competition
Cole Kenny is focused on an unusual place for an aerospace engineer: underground. A PhD student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Kenny is applying lessons he...
Before the crew of Polaris Dawn heads to space, they came to campus
Four crew members of Polaris Dawn, including a CU Boulder engineering alumna, came to campus this week to discuss the science they will conduct throughout the mission in addition to answering questions and share stories with students. The visit comes nearly four months before the crew’s historic spa...
Former astronaut and NASA administrator offers advice, perspective to Boulder aerospace students
Former NASA administrator and astronaut Charles Bolden addressed University of Colorado Boulder students in a special seminar on the past and future of spaceflight and space exploration...