News, Research Updates and Features

Harish Saranathan won the 2018 AIAA SciTech Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Student Paper Competition.

Research conducted by a team including AAE Professor Kathleen Howell on a potential human habitat located on the moon was selected as one of the top Purdue research stories for 2017 by the Purdue News Service.

Jooyoung Lee, a PhD student in Professor Inseok Hwang’s research group, has received a “Best Student Paper” award from the 2018 SciTech Forum Intelligent Systems conference.

AAE Professor Alina Alexeenko co-leads the Advanced Lyophilization Technology Hub, or LyoHub, where research is being done to transform the freeze-drying process. Researchers and industry leaders are trying to modernize a process that has not changed fundamentally in 70 years even though it has a worldwide annual market of about $16 billion.

William Kellerhals (BS ’19) received a scholarship from the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). Kellerhals’ research focus is in structural analysis.

Purdue is part of a team, funded with a $9.8 million, three-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, for research and development in materials and structures for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Purdue will perform wind tunnel tests and associated computer modeling since the University operates a unique wind tunnel capable of running “quietly” while conducting experiments in airstreams traveling at Mach 6.

Jim Luckring (BS ’73, MS ’74) has received the NATO Science and Technology Organization AVT Panel Excellence Award and delivered the named Lanchester Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.

Allissa Battocletti (BSAAE ’11) is an engineer working at NASA, where her area of expertise is spacewalks. Before launching her career, she enjoyed being a member of the Purduettes.

AAE students Kate Fowee and Kim Rink are among the 2018 winners of Aviation Week's "Tomorrow's Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties."

AAE PhD students Andrea Nicolas, Gayathri Shivkumar and Pei Zhang have each received a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, which is administered by the Purdue Graduate School.