Video: As spaceflight accelerates, CU campuses team to educate problem solvers

Through the Merging Engineering and Medicine: Integrating Technology and Immersive Hands-on Human Spaceflight project, CU Boulder and CU Anschutz students collaborate across disciplines while exploring the future of human spaceflight.

Supported by a CU Next Award from the CU system, the initiative brings together engineering, medicine and aerospace expertise to create immersive learning experiences focused on the challenges of sending humans farther into space. Students engage in hands-on coursework and simulations examining astronaut health, medical technologies, spacecraft design and the effects of space travel on the human body.

The project helps students develop technical and problem-solving skills while working in interdisciplinary teams, mirroring the collaborative environment found in the aerospace and healthcare industries. Faculty across campuses are also building partnerships that strengthen research, teaching and innovation opportunities.

By combining engineering, medicine and experiential learning, the program prepares students to contribute to the rapidly evolving fields of aerospace, health technology and human space exploration.

Watch the video above to learn how CU students and faculty work together to address real-world challenges at the intersection of engineering, medicine and spaceflight.