Just three months into her doctoral research at Purdue, Morales Jiménez was awarded a NSTGRO fellowship. We talked with her about what motivates her search for alternative hypergolic propellants, about the Hispanic NASA research center director who inspired her to stick with aerospace, and what it means to her to be a Hispanic woman working in this field.

This career fair has been connecting AAE students with the aerospace industry for more than 10 years. Though larger corporations can and do participate, ACE has developed a reputation for bringing smaller companies than some other hiring events.

The Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON) welcomed 10 new ICON-affiliated faculty, including three from Aeronautics and Astronautics.

It’s hard to pick up garbage when the trash keeps moving in orbits subject to hard-to-calculate gravitational pulls from the Earth and Moon. Carolin Frueh, associate professor in Purdue Engineering’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is putting her considerable mathematical prowess to the test of solving dilemmas that a sanitation department on Earth would never have to contend with.

Purdue Engineering Review sat down with R. Byron Pipes to talk creativity in engineering, how education changed in the age of Google, and the digital transformation happening in engineering.

Chintan is one of seven Engineering Fellows selected this year. He will remain at Purdue for his master's before pursuing a career in propulsion.

Four recent graduates returned to campus for an important visit – and to represent the potential that students have after graduation.

Julio Hernández has harnessed his family's work ethic and sense of community into a career in aerospace — and dedication to mentoring younger students.

Purdue AAE has been in the top 7 programs nationwide for 22 years running. Purdue also ranked among the top 10 most innovative schools for the fifth consecutive year.

In 2021, Purdue Research Foundation received 169 patents, placing it first in both the state of Indiana and the Big Ten, and sixth internationally.