Aerospace Mechanics Research Center (AMReC)
Humans trust dozens of tiny materials each day with their lives and livelihoods— without being able to see the fine details of how durable they are. Tiny carbon particles mixed with rubber in car tires help distribute heat when we speed up on a
Smead Aerospace ranked No. 6 and the College of Engineering and Applied Science climbed a spot to No. 14 amongst public universities in U.S. News and World Report’s 2027 best undergraduate engineering programs rankings.
A passenger jet soars across the sky at 640 mph, its wings pummeled with wind and boundary-layer turbulence, challenging the plane’s operation and efficiency. Advancing research from Mahmoud I. Hussein aims to prevent that turbulence with...
John Evans is the new chair of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. A 13-year veteran of the department, Evans was elected by the Smead Aerospace faculty
The °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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 °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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 °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï 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.