PhD Students Don Fry and Jacob Haderlie, were invited by Beihang University in Beijing, China to present at the 2011 International Postgraduate Academic Forum in late October, 2011.

Professor Wayne Chen has been appointed to serve as Associate Head of the Graduate Program effective from January 2, 2012. Professor Marc Williams continues in his role as Associate Head for the Undergraduate Program.

Prof. Steven Collicott headed to Spaceport America's vertical launch complex in southern New Mexico the weekend of December 2, 2011 with three students from his AAE418 class. They were on-hand to oversee their experiment on the launch of the Armadillo Aerospace STIG A rocket.

Dr. Dan DeLaurentis and the Aero/Astro Student Advisory Council (AAESAC) presented former SR-71 and U-2 pilot Stormy Boudreaux to a packed audience in Armstrong Hall of Engineering on November 10, 2011.

By adapting ideas from robotic planetary exploration, the human space program could get astronauts to asteroids and Mars cheaply and quickly.

Professor Tasos Lyrintzis, Associate Head of our school and Director of our school's graduate program, will become the Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University in Florida, effective Jan. 2012.

Leaders of Congress honored astronauts John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins with congressional gold medals in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Nov. 16, 2011.

One of only twelve pilots who have flown operational sorties in both U-2 and SR-71 aircraft, Stormy Boudreaux will give talk at Purdue on November 10, @ 6:15pm in ARMS 1010.