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CU Hosts Rocky Mountain Fluid Mechanics Research Symposium

Sept. 10, 2019

The fifth annual Rocky Mountain Fluid Mechanics Research Symposium was held on July 29 at CU Boulder.

Exterior shot of the Engineering Center

College continues national rankings rise

Sept. 9, 2019

Five undergraduate engineering programs ranked in top 20 for 2020.

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Alumni Volunteer Spotlight: Katie Simon, MechEngr18

Sept. 5, 2019

This past year, over 400 alumni donated their time to the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Using their skills and technical expertise, they volunteered through a variety of opportunities such as mentoring students, serving on an advisory board, or guest lecturing. Katie Simon (MechEngr'18) lives in Louisville, Colorado, and...

The CU Boulder campus and Flatiron Mountains.

Aspiring aerospace business leaders: Propel your career with new certificate

Sept. 3, 2019

Do you want to be a business leader in aerospace? The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and the Engineering Management Program at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder have teamed up to offer a unique graduate certificate: Engineering Management in the Aerospace Industry. “We’ve developed this certificate for...

Engineering Center with fall colors

Engineering Center first CU building to go plastic-free for beverages

Sept. 3, 2019

This includes both of the Gravity Cafe coffee shops and all of the vending machines in the Engineering Center. The coffee shops will begin to stock compostable cups, lids, straws, plates and silverware for our use, and PepsiCo has replaced all beverages in the vending machines with glass or aluminum containers.

Carlie Charp

Carlie Charp, CTD'22

Sept. 1, 2019

Why did you choose engineering at CU Boulder? The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has everything and more in terms of what I was hoping for in a university. CU has an engineering program which is among the very best in the nation. CU also has a unique program which is not...

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First 40 Western Colorado University students enroll in CU Engineering partnership program

Aug. 29, 2019

The highly qualified class includes 28 mechanical engineering students and 15 computer science students, with two-thirds of students hailing from Colorado.

The galaxy as seen from space

In push to deep space, human-robot teaming will be key

Aug. 29, 2019

If humans are going to travel further into space – to places like Mars and beyond – the robotic systems involved will have to become more autonomous, shedding costly teams of handlers on Earth and relying more on the astronauts for missions lasting six or more years.

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PhD student Jordan Dixon interviewed for Brainwaves podcast

Aug. 28, 2019

Dixon is working on augmented reality lenses for NASA’s astronauts that could one day help people who are blind.

Rafael Piestun and his students standing in a lab with a laser

Technique detailed in Nature Photonics enables real-time imaging towards use in medical field

Aug. 28, 2019

A new paper in Nature Photonics from researchers at CU Boulder details impressive improvements in the ability to control the propagation and interaction of light in complex media such as tissue – an area with many potential applications in the medical field.

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