Eldon Knuth (BSAE '49. MSAE '50) recently received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in a combat zone, 75 years after the end of his service in the U.S. Army.

AAE Professor Steven Collicott began his three-year term in November 2020 with the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), starting as president-elect, moving to president and finishing as conference organizer.

Jeri Lynn Metzger (BSAAE '05), Tamaira Ross (BSAAE '96, MSAAE '99) and Heather Wiest (MSAAE '13, PhD AAE '17) were honored at the WE20 virtual conference by the world's largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology.

Shaoshuai Mou, an assistant professor in AAE, is co-director of the new Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON) that helps researchers and practitioners integrate diverse multidisciplinary techniques and ideas to enable the next generation of autonomous and connected systems.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Purdue Space Program/SEDS, students created the Midwest Rocketry Forum that includes podcasts and workshops.

In this episode meet Ran Dai, an associate professor in AAE. We'll learn more about her work with control of autonomous systems, computational optimization, networked dynamical systems and learning-enabled optimal control.

In this episode meet Carson Slabaugh, an AAE assistant professor. He'll share how he started on a path toward aerospace engineering and about his current propulsion and combustion research.

Dengfeng Sun says, "To the best of my knowledge, Purdue’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics is among the first academic units to investigate this approach."

Steven Collicott will receive four separate grants totaling $1.8 million for four different experiments under NASA’s Tech Flights solicitation.

Using computational tools to mathematically simulate and track material microstructures and defects to address their probability of failure during operation.