Sara Beck with her bike during the Tour de France ride

CEAE alumna Sara Beck talks career goals, riding the Tour De France route

Sept. 17, 2019

Sara Beck finished her undergraduate degrees at CU Boulder in 2003, double majoring in aerospace engineering sciences and studio arts. After an impressive first job at NASA, she returned to the College of Engineering and Applied Science and earned her PhD in environmental engineering under Professor Karl Linden in 2015. We asked her about her impressive experience in engineering so far, her future plans and what it’s like to ride the Tour de France bike race route.

Dean Braun at Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building Opening

Announcing new endowed leadership chairs for three college departments

Sept. 17, 2019

I am thrilled to report that our philanthropic campaign to increase our support and engagement with Colorado’s aerospace sector has surpassed its goal and enabled us to establish three new endowed leadership chairs in electrical, computer and energy engineering, mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering sciences. While this campaign continues through...

Gravity

Welcome Gravity Café!

Sept. 16, 2019

New semester, new out-of-this-world coffee.

The navy lapel pin over a United States flag

Navy visit to college highlights growing partnership around students

Sept. 13, 2019

Senior U.S. Navy officers visited the CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science Thursday, highlighting a growing partnership that’s driving student success, leadership opportunities and career pathways.

Emergy Foods Protein in a salad

Protein reimagined: Two CU Boulder engineering alumni found Emergy Foods

Sept. 13, 2019

There’s a new entry on the growing menu of tasty meat alternatives, brought to you by CU Boulder engineering alumni and founders of Emergy Foods Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley.

Students from 2019 EngiNearMe Program present their final engineering project

CU Engineering diversity efforts recognized nationally

Sept. 12, 2019

CU Engineering recognized nationally for commitment to diversity in the college, community and state.

Rat cardiac fibroblasts—which happen to be in the shape of a heart—grown on hydrogels mimicking cardiac tissue and treated with human serum

Mimicking the heart's microenvironment

Sept. 11, 2019

CU Boulder engineers and faculty from the Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation (CFReT) at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus have teamed up to develop biomaterial-based “mimics” of heart tissues to measure patients’ responses to an aortic valve replacement procedure, offering new insight into the ways that cardiac tissue re-shapes itself post-surgery.

A student looking at the windcline in operation

Burning up: CU researchers use unique tunnel to study wildfires

Sept. 11, 2019

Researchers at CU Boulder are using experiments and computations in a new sloping wind tunnel to study how wildfires form and move across different landscapes; applying cutting edge research tools to understand an old problem that Colorado has become quite familiar with in recent years.

Subekshya Bidari

PhD candidate Subekshya Bidari earns $20,000 fellowship

Sept. 10, 2019

Her research examines how honeybee swarms interact through communication mechanisms such as “waggle dancing” and other types of signaling to make decisions that maximize their foraging yield.

The CU Boulder campus as seen from above

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.

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