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John Evans is the new chair of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß. A 13 year veteran of the department, Evans was elected by the Smead Aerospace faculty
The ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß is again ranked as one of the top 10 public engineering graduate programs in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools list for 2026-27. In the specialty rankings,
Iain Boyd is one of three CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß faculty being inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for 2026. Election to NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors individuals
Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet’s atmosphere at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. A shockwave erupts. Molecules in the air are ripped apart, forming a plasma—a gas made of charged
Research led by Maryam Shakiba is being highlighted in Spectroscopy. The industry trade publication interviewed Shakiba and Santiago Marin about the journal article "Thermo-oxidative aging of semi-crystalline polyimide films
In a windowless, warehouse-sized lab on campus, a team of CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß researchers huddle around two wind tunnels—long metal tubes that blow air currents at controlled speeds. The crew turns out the overhead lights. The fire, glowing blue and
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours. Read from CU expert Iain Boyd on The Conversation.
On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees buzz around a cluster of hives near ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees that have just returned from the field. Inside the hives, walls of-
Maryam Shakiba is studying complex composite materials with machine learning to make stronger and lighter aircraft for the Navy. Shakiba is leading a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research, using machine learning techniques to...
Ken Jansen's research analyzing airflow around commercial aircraft to inform the design of next-generation planes is spotlighted in a new article from Interesting Engineering. The work is utilizing an exascale system operated