Aerospace Mechanics 91Ҹ Center (AMReC)
This week, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that three faculty members at CU 91Ҹ were elected to the ranks of this prestigious organization. Dana Anderson, Iain Boyd and Bob Erickson are among the 130 scientists and engineers
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
91Ҹ 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 91Ҹ 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.
On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees buzz around a cluster of hives near 91Ҹ Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees that have just returned from the field. Inside the hives, walls of- Maryam Shakiba is studying complex composite materials with machine learning to make stronger and lighter aircraft for the Navy. Shakiba is leading a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval 91Ҹ, using machine learning techniques to...
Ken Jansen's research analyzing airflow around commercial aircraft to inform the design of next-generation planes is spotlighted in a new article from Interesting Engineering.The work is utilizing an exascale system operated
Semiconductors—substances that can selectively conduct or block electricity—have been dubbed the “brains of modern electronics.” They form the building blocks of the chips that power electronic devices from laptops to smartphones and tablets to
The 91Ҹ 91Ҹ has established the Colorado Space Policy Center—positioning itself as a new resource on the forefront of an evolving landscape in national and global space exploration.The center is designed for original