Congratulations to AAE graduate students Amanda Haapala who was placed first, and to Irsha Ashok Pardeshi, who was placed second in the Engineering Sciences section of the Sigma Xi Poster Competition.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics congratulates Jian Xu for winning the prestigious Bilsland Dissertation Fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year.

AAE alumnus Dr. Pablo Zavattieri was recently awarded a CAREER grant, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for young researchers.

A check for undergraduate and graduate scholarships was presented on behalf of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. by Dr. Munir M. Sindir, Director of Engineering Technical Disciplines and a member of the Steering Advisory Committee (SAC) to Dr. Tom Shih, professor and head of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Rita Baines, Director of Development

On Feb. 15 the 50-meter-wide asteroid DA14 will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth. According to Prof. Jay Melosh, if the asteroid were to impact rather than nearly miss Earth, it would explode with a four-megaton force.

Congratulations to AAE alumni Litigation Attorney Michael J. Corso BSAAE'71, who has maintained Florida Bar Board Certification in Civil Trial Law for 30 years. Board certification evaluates attorneys’ special knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice.

On February 22nd, the College of Engineering will honor Mark A. Burgess(BSAAE'78, MSAAE'79, MSIA'82) and Richard Byram Rivir (BSAE'60) as two out of ten Engineering Alumni who are distinguished in their engineering careers. The College of Engineering has over 84,000 living alumni. The distinction of DEA has been bestowed upon 489 of these outstanding individuals.

Allissa Battocletti BSAAE'11, who is a member of NASA's EVA Operations team, took the opportunity to fly the Purdue flag during her rotation as instructor for NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL).

Congratulations to Dr. John Sullivan and the fall 2012 AAE 590 Design Build Test class. The team of twenty undergraduate students designed and proposed a Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) to the BORDERS SUAS design competition.

Aaron Johnson, a senior in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, is one of two inaugural recipients of the Harold DeGroff Endowed Scholarship granted from the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at Purdue.