combustion study in Greg Rieker's lab

A bright future for combustion research, Rieker receives Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award

July 29, 2019

Associate Professor Greg Rieker has been awarded two of the top international awards in his field. After receiving the Peter Werle Early Career Scientist Award in September 2018, he was selected to receive the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award in April 2019.

A person riding a road bike

Pedal power: Bike ride benefits engineering scholarships

July 26, 2019

Get those Spandex shorts and bike jerseys ready! For the third year in a row, riders in the Buffalo Bicycle Classic can choose to participate in support of College of Engineering and Applied Science students who demonstrate merit and strong financial need. The fundraising ride has provided nearly $4 million...

Alex Hirst with a UAV.

Q&A with Smead Scholar Alex Hirst about his summer of severe storm research

July 24, 2019

Alex Hirst saw his first tornado recently, followed quickly by his second, third, fourth and fifth. As an aerospace PhD student and Smead Scholar at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, he played an active role in the 2019 TORUS project – which took a team of...

A mock-up of what a LunaSat might look like on the moon.

Students to send hundreds of leaf-sized spacecraft to the moon

July 24, 2019

Fifty years ago today, the command module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, safely returning the first astronauts to set foot on the moon. Now, students from Colorado and across the world will continue that legacy of exploration via the Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone...

The exterior of the Lesser House, as viewed from Colorado Avenue.

Herbst Program celebrating name change and 30th anniversary

July 22, 2019

The updated name, the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society, highlights how Herbst courses prepare students for the social complexities of being human and of being engineers.

Neil Armstrong in space suit

Alum watched moon landing from Armstrong family's garage

July 19, 2019

'I recall the day quite well. Neil Armstrong grew up at 601 W. Benton St., Wapakoneta, Ohio. I grew up at 604 W. Benton St.'

The Bowman family

Bowman gives back by founding new endowed faculty position

July 19, 2019

Distinguished Professor Chris Bowman is donating his lab's royalties from a patent toward the formation of a new endowed faculty position.

A ground drone entering the tunnel.

Video: Designing autonomous drones for subterranean search and rescue

July 15, 2019

CU Boulder is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by DARPA to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments. CU’s team is a $4.5 million collaboration led by the College of Engineering and Applied Science through the Autonomous Systems Interdisciplinary Research Theme.

Keplinger soft robotics scorpion

Toolkit allows broad audience to make artificial muscles

July 15, 2019

Researchers in Assistant Professor Christoph Keplinger’s lab released a toolkit to show scientists, hobbyists and entrepreneurs how to create their own artificial muscles. They hope this will bring researchers one step closer to developing wearable, surgical and collaborative robots that safely and effectively help humans.

Molenaar with ESPOL's president and four CU Boulder graduate students

Visit aims to expand research collaborations between CU Engineering, Ecuadorian university

July 9, 2019

Keith Molenaar, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recently visited the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to discuss expanding the collaboration between the two universities.

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