A team of AAE students recently completed a conceptual spacecraft design for a next generation mission to the outer planets and presented its results to an audience of experts from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The study was part of an intensive two-week engineering exercise lead by AAE Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia.

AAE Associate Professor Timothée Pourpoint is head of the multidisciplinary team designing and assembling the Indiana Bicentennial torch. He says there are several stages in torch production to complete all 130 torches for the torch run and other purposes.

Meet AAE senior Aleksandra Dervisevic, who is spending her summer on co-op with Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, IA.

An experiment by Purdue AAE professor Steven Collicott ended with success aboard the first suborbital rocket research flight by private company Blue Origin. Prof. Collicott is one of three scientists asked by Blue Origin to work with the private company as it tested and perfected its suborbital rocket design.

AAE junior Zizhan Gu is spending his summer as an intern at Sloan Automotive Laboratory at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

AAE PhD student Alex Friedman has been awarded an Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) Doctoral Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Friedman is a PhD candidate under Visiting Assistant Professor Carolin Frueh.

AAE junior Emily Schulz is spending her summer on co-op with UTC Aerospace Systems in Rockford, IL.

Andretti Autosport engineer and 2011 Purdue University graduate Nick Heinz played a crucial role in helping rookie Alexander Rossi win the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 29. Nick was a student of AAE Professor John Sullivan and received his MS AAE in 2011.

AAE junior Michael Reinhold is spending his summer on co-op with ATA Engineering in San Diego, CA.

AAE Professor Bill Anderson recently gave an Expert Talk and presented a paper at the International Symposium on Thermoacoustic Instabilities in Gas Turbines and Rocket Engines at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich.