Shankini Doraisingam and Jack Fischer inside Fiske Planetarium.

Bioserve engineer earns NASA Silver Snoopy Award

March 2, 2018

Congratulations to Shankini Doraisingam for receiving the Silver Snoopy Award for her work with astronauts aboard the International Space Station! Doraisingam is an engineer with the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder's Bioserve Space Technologies, a center that has designed, built and flown microgravity life science research and hardware on dozens of...

Aerospace building construction webcam still

New aerospace building construction under way

Live view of the Aerospace Building construction site. Refresh page to update. A new building is taking shape on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder’s East Campus, and it’s getting an extra boost thanks to expanding student enrollment. Construction of a 144,000-square-foot dedicated facility for the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace...

Dylan States

Dylan States, MechEngr'20

March 1, 2018

#ILookLikeAnEngineer Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? CU Boulder personally gave me the best opportunity to succeed as an engineer. Being close to a lot of technical fields provides great networking opportunities for my career. What does the #iLookLikeAnEngineer hashtag mean to you? It means that no matter...

Lisa Hardaway (AeroEngr PhD'00)

Engineer of Distinction Award (Posthumous) Lisa Hardaway was chief engineer on the Orion Program at Ball Aerospace and Technologies, overseeing the design, development and test of a suite of sensors used for relative navigation. Prior to this, she was the technical manager for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera...

Jared Leidich (MechEngr'09)

Recent Alumni Award Jared Leidich, a licensed professional engineer, led the design of the life support pack for a state-of-the-art spacesuit that safely carried Google executive Alan Eustace to the stratosphere on three flights. The third flight was the highest altitude a human has ascended to by balloon, the highest...

M. Jeanne Place (AeroEngr'50, MS '65)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award (Posthumous) Category: Industry and Commerce Jeanne Place built a 40-year career at General Electric, becoming an expert in heavy duty gas turbines and compressors and leading testing of compressors in the aerodynamics and performance subsection of GE’s gas turbine department. She was the first female engineering...

Scott McNary (CivEngr'81, MS '84)

Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Category: Industry & Commerce W. Scott McNary has more than 30 years of experience in design, management, construction engineering and inspection of a wide range of concrete and cable-stayed bridges with spans from 40 feet to more than 1,250 feet. He provides innovative and visionary leadership...

CU ITP students participate in hackathon.

ITP team places first in NANOG hackathon

Feb. 27, 2018

The team included Arohi Gupta, Soham Dhiren Shah, Pranit Sanjay Yadav, Amar Chaudhari and Aditya Ahuja.

Student work on laptops during the hackathon.

Hackathon brings out about 600 students for 'invention marathon'

Feb. 25, 2018

The Daily Camera covers the fourth annual Hack CU, organized by several computer science undergrads.

JT Abate skiing at Olympics

Q&A: Junior JT Abate serves as Olympic forerunner

Feb. 22, 2018

JT Abate, a junior mechanical engineering student, was invited to serve as forerunner for the ski events at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang. He's spending 21 days in South Korea forerunning the downhill, super-G and super combined for both the men and women's events. Read our Q&A with JT about...

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