CIVIL - Key Persons


Aaron Rosengren

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego Member
Dr. Rosengren received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2014. He served as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow for the European Union Asteroid and Space Debris Network, Stardust, from 2014 to 2016, at the Institute of Applied Physics Nello Carrara of the Italian National Research Council. In 2017, Dr. Rosengren worked at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in the Department of...

Abbie B. Liel

Job Titles:
  • Professor Professional Engineer ( PE ) Clark Endowed Faculty Fellow

Abbie Morton


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Aditi S. Bhaskar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alexandra Le Moine

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Alireza Doostan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Allie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Amelia Celoza

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Construction

America Palacios

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager

Amir Behzadan

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering and Management
  • Professor Fellow for the Institute of Behavioral Science, Natural Hazards Center

Amy Javernick-Will

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering Management
  • Professors
Casie Venable (PhDCivEngr'20) came to CU Boulder to work with professors Amy Javernick-Will and Abbie Liel on community resilience. Today Venable works in San Francisco for Arup, a global collective of designers, engineers, and consultants dedicated to sustainable development. As a consultant she works with clients to help them understand the potential risks they face from a variety of natural hazards, such as seismic activity and wind as well as manmade disasters like train derailments. Read more

Andraa Von Boeselager

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator of Office Operations

Andrew Borham

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Angela R. Bielefeldt

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director Integrated Design Engineering Program Professional Engineer
  • Professor Director, Integrated Design Engineering Program Registered P.E. ( Colorado )

Ann Ruether

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Anthony Straub

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ashley West

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator

Ayleen Perez

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager for the CSRA

Azadeh Bolhari

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the ABET Leadership Team
  • ABET Coordinator for EVEN

Ben Livneh

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Ben Nelson - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President

Ben Stanford


Bernard Amadei

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Bill Green

Job Titles:
  • President / the RMH Group

Bill Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Space Intelligence
Vice President, Space Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Raytheon Intelligence and Space William "Bill" Sullivan is vice president of Space Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business. He assumed the position in 2021 and is responsible for a $1.7B ground portfolio across multiple customers and domains. Previously, Sullivan was vice president of the Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System program from 2015 through 2020...

Bill Weston

Job Titles:
  • Space and Communications Group, the Boeing Company

Bob Canty

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Constellation Management and Protection, Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Bobby Hodgkinson

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Bonnie Dunbar

John and Bea Slattery Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Dr. Dunbar is a retired NASA astronaut, engineer and educator, currently with Texas A&M Engineering as a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) John and Bea Slattery Chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Dunbar, who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, came to Texas A&M from the University of Houston where...

Brad Wham

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor Center for Infrastructure, Energy & Space Testing Managing Director

Brian Argrow

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair Director of IRISS National Academy Member

Bud Ahearn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Advisory Board

Buff Techs Appointments


Carlo Salvinelli

Job Titles:
  • Instructor
  • Instructor / Mortenson Center in Global Engineering

Carol Anne Clayson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Scientist With Tenure, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Carrie Ngai

Job Titles:
  • Smead Program Senior Coordinator

Charles Hull

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Chief Technology Officer, 3D Systems Corporation

Chris Finnoff

Job Titles:
  • President and Founder, Finnoff Aviation

Chris Muldrow

Job Titles:
  • Smead Director

Christopher Ellerhorst

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of the Kuiper Program at United Launch Alliance
  • Vice President, Kuiper Program, United Launch Alliance Member
Chris Ellerhorst is the vice president of the Kuiper Program at United Launch Alliance (ULA). In this role, he leads a team responsible for integrating finance, technical and operations activities associated with Amazon's Project Kuiper launches. Ellerhorst previously served as the director, Strategy, Business Development and Sales where he led the capture of more than $10.5B in new business orders. Additionally, he led ULA's Strategic Advisory Group of senior industry...

Christopher Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Christopher Senseney

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Christopher Williams

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Conor Canaday

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Corky Townsend

Job Titles:
  • Director of Aviation Safety, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Craig Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Projects Manager, Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks

Cresten Mansfeldt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor / Environmental Engineering

Cristina Torres-Machi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dale Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of RECUV

Dan Baker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Dan M. Frangopol

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Daniel K. Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • EVEN Interim Director
  • Interim Director
  • Interim Faculty Director for Environmental Engineering
Leader of the undergraduate program in Environmental Engineering. Responsible for overseeing the continuous improvement process for accreditation, leading undergraduate recruiting and undergraduate orientation programs.

Daniel Knight

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ABET Leadership Team
  • ABET Assessment Coordinator

Daniel Scheeres

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor a. Richard Seebass Chair

Dava Newman

Job Titles:
  • Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT )

Daven Henze

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

David DiLaura

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

David Gupta - President

Job Titles:
  • President

David Klaus

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Lewis

Job Titles:
  • President / S. a. Miro, Inc. Denver, CO

David Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

David Wheaton

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Lockheed Martin Corp ( Retired )
David Wisler, Manager University Programs, General Electric Aviation (retired)

David Wisler

Job Titles:
  • Manager University Programs, General Electric Aviation ( Retired )

Dean Misterek

Job Titles:
  • Head of Systems Engineering and Vehicle Architect, Blue Origin

Deanne Sylvester

Job Titles:
  • EVEN Graduate Program Advisor
  • Graduate Program Manager

Deb Renshaw

Job Titles:
  • Senior Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Deion Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Coach Prime 's Book Launch: Elevate and Dominate

Delores Knipp

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Dennis Akos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Diane Marie McKnight

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor
  • Professor Director of Center for Water, Earth Science and Technology

Dick Rumpf

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Rumpf Associates International

Dobroslav Znidarcic

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Donald Vanlandingham

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Chair, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

Dorothy Noble

Job Titles:
  • Senior Professional Research Assistant, Laboratory Manager

Earll Murman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edith Zagona

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Elaine Oran

Job Titles:
  • Martin Institute Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland Emeritus, US Naval Research Laboratory

Eli Reshotko

Job Titles:
  • Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University

Emma Shugart

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Eric Frew

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Chair for Department Affairs

Erica Rodgers

Federal Aerospace Engineer with a Focus on Government-Wide Collaboration Dr. Erica Rodgers leads Science and Technology Partnerships within NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist. Rodgers establishes government-wide collaboration frameworks in technology areas where interagency teamwork is beneficial. She leads coordination and facilitation of partner dialog, collection of data, and data analysis. Resulting recommendations are used to advise and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy. Rodgers previously served as an...

Erik Knudsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum
  • Teaching Associate Professor Associate Chair for Undergraduate Operations

Erin Jerick

Job Titles:
  • Area Director
  • Lead

Evan Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Mortenson Center Director / Mortenson Center in Global Engineering
  • Professor Mortenson Center Director

Fatemeh Pourahmadian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Fernando Rosario-Ortiz

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Francisco López Jiménez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Frank Backes

Job Titles:
  • President, Center for Technology Research & Commercialization ( C - TRAC )

G. Thomas (Tom) Marsh

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President ( Retired ), Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

Gary Amy

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Gen. John E. Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Commander
Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command • Member 2022 - 2026 Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw is currently the Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command. He is a Massachusetts native, and he entered the Air Force in 1990 as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a degree in astronautical engineering and a minor in Russian language. Lt Gen Shaw has served in a variety of air and space operations and staff positions, from Silicon Valley to U.S. Air...

George Hearn

Job Titles:
  • Professional Engineer

George J. Gleghorn

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and Chief Engineer ( Retired ), TRW Space and Technology Group

Gerald Yoho

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Fabrication and Test Engineer

Greg R. Enders

Director (retired) EAB Chair 2012-2014 Systems Engineering and Mission Operations Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Greg graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1970 (yes, he had a class in vacuum tubes and knows how to use a slide rule). Upon graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and spent the following 8 years in Naval Intelligence. His first real engineering job was with Lockheed Martin,...

Greg Rieker

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Gregg Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Space Systems at General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems
Vice President, Space Systems General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group Mr. Burgess is vice president of Space Systems at General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) in Centenniel Colorado. Mr. Burgess is responsible for the operational execution and growth of an expanding portfolio of miniature, small and medium satellite system solutions, and space technologies across GA-EMS facilities located in Colorado, Alabama, Virginia and California. Space Systems and operates space capabilities for NASA, NOAA,...

Gregor P. Henze

Job Titles:
  • Professor RASEI Fellow Charles Victor Schelke Endowed Chair NREL Joint Professor Professional Engineer

H. Joe Smead

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics ( Deceased )

H.T. Sears

Job Titles:
  • Memorial Professor Director, Center for National Security Initiatives

Hank Scott

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Hanspeter Schaub

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
Department Chair • Professor • Schaden Leadership Chair • Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair

Harihar Rajaram

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Heather Mallander

Job Titles:
  • Environmental Engineering Program Coordinator

Hisham Ali

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Hon-Yim Ko

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Hope Michelsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Imma Ferrer

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Ivett A. Leyva

Job Titles:
  • Department Head, Aerospace Engineering, Texas
  • Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas a & M University
Ivett A. Leyva became the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University in September 2021. Previously, she worked at the Air Force for 15 years. She was the program officer for Hypersonic Aerodynamics at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFRL and prior to that she was a researcher at the AFRL Rocket Lab working on liquid rocket instabilities. Her technical expertise is in hypersonic...

Jack Elston

Founder and CEO Black Swift Technologies LLC Jack received two MS degrees and his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder, and continues to work in the Boulder area as CEO and co-founder of Black Swift Technologies, recognized for delivering reliable, robust, and highly accurate Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) capable of flying scientific payloads in demanding atmospheric environments (high-altitude, corrosive particulates, and strong turbulence). Black Swift's purpose-built scientific aerial platforms...

Jackie Ladwig

Job Titles:
  • Procurement & Travel Coordinator

Jacob Henry

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional and Training & Consulting Lead

Jacquelyn Stang

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Accounting Professional

Jade Morton

Job Titles:
  • Professor Helen and Hubert Croft Professor

James Brasseur

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Aerospace Mechanics Research Center

James Case

Job Titles:
  • Senior Principal / Uzun & Case Engineering / Decatur, GA

James Diekmann

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering Management

James McAnally

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Lockheed Martin Astronautics ( Retired ) EAB Chair 1998 - 2002

James Nabity

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jana Milford

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emerita

Jay Arehart

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Jay McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Jean Hertzberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jeff Glusman

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jeff Zehnder

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications Specialist
  • Senior Communications Specialist / Student Assistants

Jeffrey Forbes

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Professor
Professor Forbes' research interests include the upper atmosphere environments of Earth, Mars, and other planets; coupling of these environments to lower altitudes and to solar variability; geomagnetic storm effects on satellite drag variability; the vertical propagation of tides and planetary waves in planetary atmospheres, and their electrodynamic and chemical effects; utilization of accelerometer, satellite drag, and satellite remote sensing data to elucidate atmospheric variability, and to test, validate and develop upper atmosphere models. He also conducts numerical simulations of the above phenomena.

Jeffrey Thayer

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Professor Emeritus • Director of SWx-TREC

Jenna Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator
  • Graduate Program Specialist

Jennifer Jankowiak

Job Titles:
  • Instrumentation Laboratory Coordinator

Jennifer Scheib

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Jennifer Uchida

Manager, Test and Evaluation AeroTEC, Inc. Jen Uchida graduated from the University of Colorado in 2005 with a bachelor's and master's degree in aerospace engineering. Following graduation, she accepted a position with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) as a civilian flight test engineer for the Marine Corps in Patuxent River, MD. There she supported the experimental flight testing of the V-22 Osprey, deploying several new and lifesaving capabilities to...

Jeong-Hoon Song

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jeremy Peña

Job Titles:
  • Area Director, Student
  • Area Director, Student Support and Advising Services

Joanie Wiesman

Job Titles:
  • BioServe Research Manager / BioServe Space Technologies

JoAnn Silverstein

Job Titles:
  • Professional Engineer
  • Professor Emerita / Research Associate

Joanne Uleau

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
  • EVEN Undergraduate Program Advisor
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor

John Dow

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus

John Evans

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Jack Rominger Faculty Fellow Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum

John Farnsworth

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

John Mah

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

John P. Crimaldi

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John Pellegrino

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

John Z. Zhai

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Building Systems Engineering

Jonathan Jones - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO

Joseph Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Advisory Board
  • President / MWH Constructors, Inc. Broomfield, CO

Joseph Kasprzyk

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Education
  • Associate Professor GK Goh Endowed Faculty Fellow
Department leader of graduate education. Responsible for chairing the Graduate Committee, overseeing graduate policies, admissions, appointments, examinations and recruitment.

Joseph N. Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor / Environmental Engineering

Julie Korak

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Registered P.E. ( Colorado )
  • Professional Engineer ( CO )

Karl G. Linden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Department Chair / Department
  • Professor Associate Director, Mortenson Center in Global Engineering Chair, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Department's administrative leader. Responsible for the general operation and efficiency of the department, including financial and personnel management. Works with the Executive Committee to develop and oversee departmental policy.

Kaspar Willam

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kathryn Wingate

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Kathy Stutzman

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager

Katya Arquilla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kayla Boster

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Payroll Coordinator

Kayla Vandegrift

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Suite Manager

Keith Gremban

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Keith Molenaar

Job Titles:
  • Dean, College of Engineering

Kenneth Jansen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professorship Director of AMReC

Kenneth Strzepek

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Kevin Kayse - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kira Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor First Year Students

Kristin Conway

Job Titles:
  • Procurement and Travel Coordinator

Kristin Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator

Kristy Schloss

Job Titles:
  • President / Schloss Engineered Equipment Inc. Aurora, CO

Kurt Maute

Job Titles:
  • Professor Palmer Engineering Chair Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Kyri Baker

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Lewis - Worcester Faculty Fellow Faculty Director for Architectural Engineering
  • Faculty Director for Architectural Engineering
Department leader for outreach for the architectural engineering undergraduate degree with the college, university, industry and prospective students and their parents. Works with communications and alumni relations staff to promote the architectural engineering degree program.

Lanny Pinchuk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Engineering, and Director, External Relations, CU ( Retired )

Laura Clayton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Research Finance and Operations Senior Manager

Lauren Cole - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman
  • Manager of Operations
Manager of Operations and Assistant to the Chair: Lauren Cole 303-735-0855 Chair: Professor Hanspeter Schaub 303-492-8183

Laurence Young

Job Titles:
  • Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ( Deceased )

Linda Cuplin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin Aerospace Systems

Lisa Hardaway

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer - Orion Program, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Co. EAB Chair 2016 - 2017 ( Deceased )

Louis Stodieck

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Chief Scientist, BioServe Space Technologies

Lydia Pinkham


Madison Lane

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager

Mahmoud Hussein

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Marco Campos - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Principal

Marcus Holzinger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Marina Vance

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mark Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Professor Professional Engineer
  • Professor Registered P.E. ( California )

Mark Sirangelo

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Vice President, Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems Group

Maryam Shakiba

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Matt Rhode

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Matthew R. Hallowell - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Matthew R. Morris

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering Management

Maureen Craig

Job Titles:
  • Lead

Melissa Flores

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator

Melissa Piper

Job Titles:
  • Curriculum Manager

Melvin Rafi

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Michael Drews - VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer
  • Vice President
Chief Engineer Vice President, Lockheed Martin Space • Member 2022 - 2026 Michael Drews is the Chief Engineer Vice President for LM Space, where he leads the technical excellence and innovation strategies for over 10,000 engineers across five Spacecraft and Missile mission areas. He's an executive leader with over 30 years of system development experience on Classified, DoD and NASA programs. He's helped engineer multiple next generation systems that pushed boundaries in national aerospace capabilities. Before joining LM in 2000, he began...

Michael From

Job Titles:
  • Executive Manager Aerodynamics Engineernig, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Michael Gooseff

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Dean for Research

Michael Hannigan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michael J. Brandemuehl

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Michael Toney

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mija H. Hubler

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Energy and Space Testing ( CIEST )

Mike Francis

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Advanced Programs, United Technologies Research Center

Mike Gazarik

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Engineering - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

Milan Halek

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor ( Emeritus ) Construction Engineering Management

Miles Salzer

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistant

MIT Lauren J. Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Principal Staff
Principal Staff, Lincoln Laboratory Engineering Division, MIT Lauren J. Kessler is Principal Staff in the Lincoln Laboratory Engineering Division. Her focus is on initiatives in verifying and validating complex and autonomous systems, advancing systems engineering and software engineering practices, and furthering mission-specific interdivisional partnerships in autonomy, unmanned systems, and human-embedded systems. Prior to joining the Laboratory in 2021, Ms. Kessler was a member of the technical staff at Draper Laboratory,...

Moncef Krarti

Job Titles:
  • Professor Professional Engineer ( PE ) and LEED - AP

Morgan Bays


Morteza Lahijanian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mr. Karl Edquist

Job Titles:
  • Senior Aerospace Engineer, NASA 's Langley Research Center Member
Mr. Karl Edquist works in the Engineering Directorate at NASA's Langley Research Center, where he has been employed since 2000. He specializes in aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic analysis of planetary entry vehicles for NASA planetary science missions and as a Principal Investigator for technology development projects. He was Aerothermal Lead for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and Mars 2020 missions, and Principal Investigator for Propulsive Descent testing in the Langley Unitary Plan...

Nat Banda

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names H - N, Sk - T )

Natasha Bosanac

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nate Coyle

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Machine Shop and Fabrication Instructional Lab Coordinator

Neal Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Technology Development, DigitalGlobe

Nicholas Clements

Job Titles:
  • Senior Professional

Nicole Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Nisar Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Noah Fierer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Noel Hinners

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Flight Systems, Lockheed Martin Astronautics EAB Chair 2006 - 2008 ( Deceased )

Paul Brinkman

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO / Brinkman Partners / Steamboat Springs, CO

Paul Chinowsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Penina Axelrad

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Joseph T. Negler Professor

Peter Hamlington

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

R. Scott Summers

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Water Reuse Program Co - Director

R. Steven Nerem

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of CCAR

Rajagopalan Balaji

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor Interim Associate Chair for Administration

Raymond L. Kolibaba

Systems Development Operations Mission Systems Sector, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Northrop Grumman Corp 2008 - 2010, Chair, External Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, UCB Mr. Kolibaba has over 30 years of experience in general management, business development, program management and systems engineering for information technology systems. He is a proven leader who can achieve staff support to change culture and establish different approaches, including technology insertion reuse and COTS integration.

Rebecca Kallemeyn

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager of Academic Technology Initiatives, Consulting and Training

Rebecca Rico

Job Titles:
  • Student Services & Curriculum Coordinator

Renee Conway

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Finance Manager

Rich Content

Job Titles:
  • Editor Accessibility Checklist

Richard A. Regueiro

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Richard Cook

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Richard D. Kuchenrither

Job Titles:
  • Water Engineering and Management Program Director

Richard Herring - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
CEO (retired) Spectral Solutions, Inc. 2002-Present, Executive Director, Engineers Without Borders 2002-2006; 2010-2012, Chair, External Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, CU-Boulder 1998-2001, CEO/COO, Spectral Solutions, Inc. 1997-1998, Executive Consultant, Videant International, Inc. 1995-1997, CEO, EarthWatch, Inc. (retired) 1991-1995, Vice President, Ball Aerospace (retired) 1987-1991, Chief Operating Officer, Ball Aerospace

Richard Tocher

Job Titles:
  • Senior Geotechnical and Civil Engineer

Rita Klees

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert Davis


Robert Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Robyn Macdonald

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Ron F. Blackwelder

Professor (retired) Dept of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California Ron graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.S. in Aerospace Sciences in 1964, spent a year at the Technische Hochschule in Munich and completed his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in Fluid Mechanics. His career spanned 42 years at USC where he conducted experimental research on aerodynamics, flight mechanics and the dynamics of transition and...

Ronald Y. S. Pak

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roseanna M. Neupauer

Job Titles:
  • Professor President 's Teaching Scholar
  • Professor President 's Teaching Scholar Professional Engineer

Ross B. Corotis

Job Titles:
  • Professional Engineer

Sam Miller

Job Titles:
  • Building Manager

Sandra Vàsconez


Sanghamitra Neogi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Sarah Melssen

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Research Manager / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Scott McNary

Job Titles:
  • Partner / McNary Bergeron & Associates LLC / Broomfield, CO

Scott Tibbitts

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, SpaceDev Inc

Sean Peters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Shaily Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Sharon Mackey

Job Titles:
  • Finance & Grant Specialist

Sheldon Masters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Shelly Miller

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sherri Cook

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor

Shideh Dashti

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Chair for Administration
Works closely with the chair on issues of budget, staff supervision, department advisory board engagement, and strategic planning and implementation.

Siddharth Bhandari

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Simona Kelley

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems - Navigation Systems Division

Srikanth S. C. Madabhushi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Stefan Petersen

Job Titles:
  • Instrumentation Laboratory Coordinator

Stefanie Countryman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Stein Sture

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chancellor for Research

Steve Smith

Vice President and General Manager Systems Engineering Solutions Ball Aerospace As Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Engineering Solutions strategic business unit, Steve is responsible for all aspects of Systems Engineering Solutions nationwide operations and contract performance. Steve joined Ball in 2011 serving in a number of roles before assuming his current responsibilities. Steve retired as a Colonel from the United States Air Force in 2011 after serving...

Steve Vance

Job Titles:
  • President Emeritus / Broce Construction Company / Snowmass Village, CO

Steven Ayer

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering Management
  • Faculty Director for Civil Engineering
Department leader for outreach for the civil engineering undergraduate degree with the college, university, industry and prospective students and their parents. Works with communications and alumni relations staff to promote the civil engineering degree program.

Steven D. Jolly

Chief Engineer, Business Innovation, Transformation and Enterprise Excellence (BITEE) Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Dr. Jolly has served Project Orion off and on as an independent advisor and tiger team lead for entry, descent and landing. He was Program Manager for the Mars Science Lab Aeroshell and a member of the Independent Assessment Panel for the MSL Landing Site Selection (June, 2011), and has served as a member of EDL...

Susan Glairon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications Specialist

Susan K. Avery - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Director of CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder
President Emerita, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • Member 2023 - 2027 Susan K. Avery is president emerita of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB) serving in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). She served as a faculty affiliate in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at UCB and as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the University...

Teal Brogden

Job Titles:
  • Senior Principal

Teresa Hertzfeld

Job Titles:
  • Finance & Grant Specialist

Timothy K. Minton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )
  • Professor

Tobias Niederwieser

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Todd Wantuch

Job Titles:
  • Fellow, Northrop Grumman Member
Todd graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994. Since graduating he has spent the majority of the last 2+ decades with Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) pioneering disruptive approaches across a diverse portfolio of space projects from upstart commercial to launch vehicles to major US Government space programs. He initially worked on the ORBCOMM "little LEO" commercial constellation serving as...

Tom Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Industry & Alumni Relations Manager

Tomoko Matsuo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Torin Clark

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Trudy Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Professor Associate Chair for Experiential Learning

Vanessa Aponte Williams

Unique Experiences Lead - Orbital Reef Blue Origin Dr. Vanessa Aponte Williams is the Unique Experiences Lead for Blue Origin's Orbital Reef commercial space station. In this role, Vanessa is a liaison between the needs of commercial customers, such as private astronauts, and the design teams that enable their missions. Prior to Blue Origin, Vanessa led Human Landing System Ascent Element Mission Operations, ensuring end-to-end mission operations integration between design...

Vickey Moler

Job Titles:
  • Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for Sierra Space 's Destinations
Director of Systems Engineering and Integration, Sierra Space • Member 2022 - 2026 Vickey Moler is the Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for Sierra Space's Destinations sector, and the acting Lead of Systems Engineering in Sierra's Central Engineering organization. She is responsible for establishing the infrastructure, education, data governance, and processes required to make Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) a successful standard approach for the Destinations, Transportation, and Applications sectors of Sierra Space. Prior to Sierra Space, Vickey led Digital Transformation strategic implementation...

Victor E. Saouma

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Wayne Lorenz

Job Titles:
  • President and Senior Engineer / Wright Water Engineers, Inc. Denver, CO

Wil V. Srubar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the ABET Leadership Team
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
  • Associate Professor Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education Charles Victor Schelke Endowed Professor
  • Chairman and ABET Coordinator for AREN
Department leader of undergraduate education. Responsible for chairing the Curriculum Committee, overseeing the continuous improvement process for accreditation, leading undergraduate recruiting and undergraduate orientation programs.

Will Medlin

Job Titles:
  • Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering Chair

William (Tad) Pfeffer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William C. Becker

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xinlin Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xinzhao Chu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yida Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yifu Ding

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yunping Xi

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Zachary Sunberg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles ( RECUV )

Zoltan Sternovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor