Spotlights

April 20, 2021

Graduate student group wins best oral presentation at TMS conference

The presentation, "Local Shock Viscosity Measurement in Composites Using In-situ Time-gated Raman Spectroscopy," was given in mid-March by AAE Ph.D. students Abhijeet Dhiman, Ayotomi Olokun and Nolan Lewis.

April 15, 2021

Student shares journey as Protect Purdue ambassador on AAE's blog

The Protect Purdue initiative and its student ambassadors, including AAE junior Colin Rhodes, helped keep the University safe while students were on campus this academic year.

April 14, 2021

Purdue part of multi-university team developing curricula for future hypersonic workforce on DoD grant

AAE faculty are working to develop master's curricula as part of the grant from The Department of Defense.

April 13, 2021

AAE student named Bruce Helfert Memorial Award winner

Joseph Kirchhoff received the award for an outstanding junior in College of Engineering and College of Science.

April 13, 2021

Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Class of 2020 awards

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics honored its 2020 class of OAEs on April 12 in a virtual pre-recorded ceremony.

April 9, 2021

Class of 2020 OAEs Matsutomi, O'Hara built bond at Purdue

Yen (Yu) Matsutomi and Loral O'Hara worked alongside each other at Zucrow Labs during grad school in AAE, but a friendship budded beyond research.

April 9, 2021

Faculty promotions approved by Board of Trustees

Five AAE faculty members had promotions approved, effective 2021-22 academic year.

April 8, 2021

Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Class of 2020: Rhonda Walthall

"This is just an incredible honor," Rhonda Walthall said. "I would have never dreamed that I would ever receive this award, this recognition from Purdue."