AAE graduate student Robert Rolley has been awarded an Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) Fellowship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Rolley is a Masters student under Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia.

AAE Associate Professor Li Qiao along with PhD candidates Sayan Biswas and Shourya Jain recently received an honorable mention in the 2016 Combustion Art Competition. The artwork, titled “Mesmerizing Micro-World of a Monopropellant Matrix (4M),” was chosen from among 40 submissions.

AAE junior Will Cummings is spending his summer on co-op at Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah, GA.

Purdue AAE Associate Professor Karen Marais is a member of a National Research Council (NRC) committee that recently issued a report called “Reducing Global Carbon Emissions” that recommends a national research agenda designed to lessen the impact commercial aviation has on climate change.

PhD candidates Sergii Kravchenko and Cheolhyeon Kwon have received the 2016 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award, which is awarded to outstanding PhD candidates in their final year of doctoral degree completion.

The Purdue Systems Collaboratory has formalized a partnership with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) that will foster cooperation in systems education and research between the two institutions.

AAE PhD student Andrew Strongrich won the Dr. Thomas Jennings Award for best poster presentation at the International Society of Lyophilization-Freeze Drying Conference in Chicago on April 14, 2016.

AAE PhD student Cesare Guariniello is the recipient of the 2016 Diamond Award from Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). The annual award recognizes a graduating student who, like coal, is put under a lot of pressure to emerge a “diamond.”

Senior Nathaniel Thomas is an AAE Ambassador.