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Aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder initially began as an option within the university’s mechanical engineering program in 1930. In 1946, it was split off and became the Department of Aeronautical Engineering under the leadership of aerospace education pioneer Karl Dawson Wood , who served as its first chair.
CCAR was founded by professor George Born who served as Director for 28 years and Director Emeritus until his death in 2016. Born joined University of Colorado at Boulder after working on high-profile missions like TOPEX/Poseidon, Seasat, Mariner 9 and the Viking program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the 1970s.
Upon completing his PhD, Argrow accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Oklahoma's School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from 1989 to 1992. He left OU in 1992 to accept a similar faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder's (CU Boulder) Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences ...
Robert David Braun [1] is an American aerospace engineer and academic. He has served as the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the NASA Chief Technologist.
Daniel Jay Scheeres is an American aerospace engineer. He is the A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.In honor of his "pioneering work into the investigation of the dynamics of orbits close to small, irregularly shaped minor planets," Asteroid (8887) 1994LK1 was renamed (8887) Scheeres in 1999.
Molenaar grew up outside of Chicago in St. Charles, Illinois with his parents and sister, also a first-generation college graduate. He worked as a laborer in his father's construction company and attended Elgin Community College before transferring to the University of Colorado Boulder to pursue an engineering career.
Axelrad in 2022. Penina Axelrad is an American aerospace engineer known for her research on satellite orbital dynamics and the Global Positioning System.She is Joseph T. Negler Professor in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research and the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado.
Carlos A. Felippa is a professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado. His research at Colorado concerns aerospace structures and structural analysis, with special interests in coupled field problems: elastoacoustics, aeroelasticity, control-structure interaction, thermomechanics and electrothermomechanics.