Grad Profile
I grew up in southern Israel, on a Kibbutz, a small social community, where I spent my childhood. From a young age I loved solving problems: first simple math, and later, in high school, physics and chemistry. After the army, when I had to choose a field of study, I knew I wanted to be an engineer and I loved airplanes and UAVs...
Jenny Horing has been poring over the latest results in her hypersonic flow and material response research, searching for clues in the data to better understand the next frontier in high-speed thermodynamics.Much of the work
Katie Melbourne is up close and personal with the James Webb Space Telescope. As a systems engineer at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Melbourne is involved in commissioning for NASA's new flagship space telescope. At the same time, she is also earning
鈥淭oday, we woke up on Mars,鈥 Shayna Hume (MAeroEngr鈥20; PhD鈥23) journaled on April 13, 2021. Nestled inside a two-story, 1,200-square-foot cylindrical habitat with five other aerospace specialists, it appeared to be true 鈥 red desert
Josh Barrio had had enough. As an avionics technician in the U.S. Coast Guard, he regularly struggled to keep up with the demanding maintenance schedule for military helicopters. There had to be a better way. 鈥淚 was constantly removing and replacing equipment. Who decided this cable needed to...
Connor Morency has landed a major Department of Defense fellowship to advance the frontiers of high-speed flows. A PhD student and Smead Scholar, Morency has earned a 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), which recognizes...
Shayna Hume and a team of fellow students are trying out life on Mars through a unique Earth-based experience. An aerospace engineering PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Hume recently returned from a two-week stay at the Mars
脕lvaro Romero-Calvo is sending research up, up and away with Blue Origin. The second-year aerospace PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder has won the 2021 Ken Souza Memorial Student Spaceflight Research Program, sponsored by the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, earning him a payload slot on...
Jaylon McGhee is researching next-generation wind turbine designs through a prestigious federal fellowship. A second-year aerospace PhD student, McGhee has earned a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a distinguished award that provides...
Benjamin Wexler has been flying from a young age, first in simulators and later as a private pilot. Now, he will be contributing to cutting-edge astronautics and aeronautics research as a 2020 NASA Pathways Internship fellow. The California native and University of Colorado Boulder dual degree aerospace engineering and...