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CU Engineering students earn prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships

Members of the science and implementation team at Kennedy Space Center with a space-proven Falcon 9 rocket on the background. From left to right: Eric Yarns (KU), Kevin Ngo (KU), Luis Zea (CU), Dr. Joe Tash (KU), and Sam Piper (CU)

Blog: ²ÊÃñ±¦µä experiments arrive at International Space Station

April 4, 2018

NASA and SpaceX’s CRS-14 mission with the Dragon spacecraft carrying three different experiments involving the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Bioserve Space Technologies have successfully arrived at the International Space Station. The first, called Micro 11, is a project in partnership with the University of Kansas centering on reproductive biology. It...

Alex St. Clair and Carson Brumley

CU Engineering students honored with Brooke Owens and Matt Isakowitz Fellowships

March 8, 2018

Two national fellowship programs are honoring CU Engineering students. The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program and Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program each provide industry internships and mentoring opportunities to promising engineering students and both are recognizing ²ÊÃñ±¦µä students as 2018 fellows. Aerospace junior Carson Brumley has been selected as a 2018...

Shankini Doraisingam and Jack Fischer inside Fiske Planetarium.

Bioserve engineer earns NASA Silver Snoopy Award

March 2, 2018

Congratulations to Shankini Doraisingam for receiving the Silver Snoopy Award for her work with astronauts aboard the International Space Station! Doraisingam is an engineer with the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Bioserve Space Technologies, a center that has designed, built and flown microgravity life science research and hardware on dozens of...

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New aerospace building construction under way

Live view of the Aerospace Building construction site. Refresh page to update. A new building is taking shape on the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s East Campus, and it’s getting an extra boost thanks to expanding student enrollment. Construction of a 144,000-square-foot dedicated facility for the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace...

The team with professor Kyri Baker.

²ÊÃñ±¦µä 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 ²ÊÃñ±¦µä students are answering the call. It is...

Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Mark Rentschler (far right) with graduate students (left to right) Levi Pearson, Greg Formosa and Micah Prendergast with an oversized version of a synthetic colon created as a senior design project.

A robotic small intestine? Researchers are making one

Dec. 4, 2017

Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Mark Rentschler is leading the effort to develop an artificial, robotic small intestine for use in medical laboratories. The research is supported by a $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Ronggui Yang in a lab with two students.

Yang studies thermal problems of futuristic electronics

Aug. 25, 2017

(From left) PhD student Xin Qian, post doctoral researcher Puqing Jiang, and mechanical engineering professor Ronggui Yang in Yang's laboratory at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä. Ronggui Yang knows people want faster, more powerful electronic devices. Whether it is a new laptop, cell phone, smart TV, or technology for electric vehicles and the...

Women in Aerospace Symposium at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä College of Engineering

²ÊÃñ±¦µä, MIT, and Stanford Host Women in Aerospace Symposium

May 30, 2017

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is welcoming some of the nation’s best aerospace PhD students for a Women in Aerospace Symposium. The event will offer a unique opportunity for this select group of women who are interested in pursuing an academic career in aerospace, to present research and network with mentors and colleagues from across the country.

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