The Executive Committee of the Purdue University Board of Trustees, acting on behalf of the full board, approved University planning, financing, construction and awarding of construction contracts for a new facility to house two hypersonic wind tunnels.

Joe D. Hoffman, who taught at Purdue Mechanical Engineering for 38 years and directed the Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories, died on February 13, 2021.

Professor Steven Collicott, chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation’s Suborbital Applications Research Group (SARG), wrote for SpaceNews.

Rhonda Walthall (BSAAE '86, OAE '20) hopes "Flight Paths to Success," in which female aerospace engineers share personal career journeys, will be of particular interest to female aerospace engineers in their early-to-mid careers.

Junior Aman Chokshi received the Leonard E. Wood Co-Op Scholarship.

Kathleen Howell, Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was recognized as a leader in a field of astronautics of fundamental importance for the exploration of space.

Zion Moss, a sophomore in AAE, was one of 43 first- and second-year Black college students chosen as a Fellow.

Thomas Cannon Jr., who also earned his BS and MS from the School, attributes his parents' examples, Purdue education and determined nature for his career success.

AAE Professor Timothee Pourpoint was among an 11-member team given the NASA Engineering & Safety Center Group Achievement Award.

AAE Ph.D. student Michael Baier is part of a group investigating a safer and less toxic hypergolic propellant, studying its explosive reaction with a new technique involving both visible and infrared high-speed cameras.