The team with professor Kyri Baker.

CU Boulder team finalists in NASA Mars competition

Jan. 22, 2018

The team with professor Kyri Baker (center). Wanted: college students to help NASA get to Mars. No prior Martian experience necessary. The space agency is turning to an unlikely resource in its quest to conquer the red planet, and 麻豆视频 students are answering the call. It is...

Sarah DaFoe, Fred Hobbs and Melinda Piket-May in the KGNU studio.

PODCAST: Undergrads design assistive technology for people with disabilities

Jan. 3, 2018

Through a community partnership with Imagine!, CU Boulder engineering students help support people living with developmental, cognitive and physical challenges.

Two students work on the CubeSat in a LASP lab.

How a student satellite solved a major space mystery

Dec. 13, 2017

The CubeSat mission houses a small, energetic particle telescope to measure the flux of solar energetic protons and Earth鈥檚 radiation belt electrons. Launched in 2012, it has involved more than 65 CU Boulder students, including many from Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

Dana Stamo

Dana Stamo: oSTEM Vice President

Nov. 14, 2017

Tell us about what you're involved in at BOLD. What do you love about it? Last Spring, my friends and peers elected me to be their Vice President of oSTEM. The CU Boulder chapter of oSTEM has only been around since Fall 2016, and just this semester it has more...

Asmita Dhakal

Asmita Dhakal: NSBE Co-President

Nov. 6, 2017

Tell us about what you're involved in at BOLD. What do you love about it? I was part of Aspire 2015. As well as I was a GoldShirt student assistant for year 2015-2016. Now I am a Co-President for National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). I love having the feel...

The Volt Vision team in the ITLL

Students develop eye-activated controller for people of all abilities

Nov. 6, 2017

The device, called the Vee Vee, interprets the direction of the eye movement and sends an instruction to an external machine that鈥檚 paired with the wearable device.

SASE members at conference

SASE National Conference 2017 Recap

Nov. 1, 2017

The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers National Conference was held from October 13th - October 15th in Schaumburg, Illinois. The national conference was a professional event that consisted of various workshops covering topics from leadership to technical skills such as programming. The last day of the conference consisted of...

Max Armstrong helps an amputee put on his new prosthetic leg.

Affordable prosthetic system could help amputees worldwide

Sept. 13, 2017

Few people figure out how they want to change the world in middle school. But in eighth grade, Peter 鈥淢ax鈥 Armstrong -- now a third-year mechanical engineering major -- did just that.

GoldShirt students in projects course

GoldShirt Summer Bridge a resounding success!

Sept. 8, 2017

Our 2017 Engineering GoldShirt Summer Bridge Program ran from Friday, July 7 through Friday, July 21 and we welcomed 43 new students in Cohort 9! We kicked off the program with an assessment day and a challenge, and a team building course at Gold Hill Ranch. For some of the...

Magnesium ingot

A thoroughly modern magnesium process

Aug. 4, 2017

CU Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today鈥檚 leading methods. The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of Professor Alan Weimer, could vastly improve production of the strong, lightweight metal that鈥檚 used in everything from vehicles and aircraft to dietary supplements and fireworks.

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