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Today is an exciting day for aerospace and for all of CU Boulder. The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents just approved construction of a dedicated building for the College of Engineering’s Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences! The state-of-the-art innovation facility comes at a critical juncture for this nationally-recognized aerospace research...

We are excited to announce that the College of Engineering and Applied Science is on Instagram . Follow us @cuengineering for an inside view of engineering life at CU Boulder. Here is a list of hashtags we'll be using regularly to tag our content: #engineeringbuffs #cuengineering #futurebuffs #foreverbuffs #spacebuffs #cuboulder...

A University of Colorado Boulder student satellite team has won a free ride to space. NASA announcing last week that CU Boulder’s Earth Escape Explorer (CU-E3) is one of three national winners in the space agency’s Cube Quest Challenge small satellite competition. The contest is focused on finding innovative solutions...

“Well, there goes our spring break!”, I thought as I read NASA’s email about the design document submission date for the Cube Quest Challenge. Once again, NASA representatives had changed a critical milestone, one that the team would not be pleased about. It was just another bump in the road that we would have to overcome...

In 42 years at CU Boulder, Professor David Clough taught about 2,000 engineering students and mentored hundreds of student-athletes. Were you one of them? As he approaches retirement at the end of this month, we’re asking alumni and friends to share their favorite memories and stories of Professor Clough –...

I am excited to share the most recent edition of CU Engineering magazine, which is now available online . I hope you enjoy the stories of our students, alumni and faculty as they harness the power of engineering to transform lives. There are several firsts with this issue. You’ll notice...

In college athletics, players are often redshirted. They are enrolled but not competing, and that gives them more time to prepare. Tanya Ennis, director of the Engineering GoldShirt Program, says like redshirting, the GoldShirt-ed engineering students are preparing for the rigors of school. “They are pumping iron much like football...

The Key to Understanding our Solar System Chunks of space rock hurtling towards Earth putting humanity in mortal danger makes an entertaining asteroid-inspired movie. While that scenario could actually happen someday, there are equally important reasons to study asteroids other than their potential to be threatening. As the bits and...

Science and engineering are all about thinking big. And if you like thinking big, then pay attention to this July 1 deadline . What are Grand Challenges? Grand Challenges are ambitious but achievable goals that harness science, technology, and innovation to solve important national or global problems and that have...