AAE would like to welcome two new faculty members: Dr. Sally Bane - starting August 2011,and Dr. Michael Sangid - starting January 2012.

At a convocation held on April 28, 2011, Leah H. Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) H. Jay Melosh, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics, were both recognized as being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

On behalf of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Dr. Paul M. Bevilaqua (MSAAE ‘68, PhD ’73) presented five copies of ‘Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design’ – Volume 1 to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the April Industrial Affiliates Council (IAC) meeting.

Andrew Feustel, Purdue alumnus and NASA astronaut, appears aboard the space shuttle Endeavour during its 16-day mission to the International Space Station. During the mission, Feustel was scheduled to lead three out of four spacewalks to perform critical installations and maintenance.

Terri started at Purdue in 1981 in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a technical typist. She was promoted to assistant to the head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1985 under Dr Henry Yang.

Congratulations to AAE Associate Professor, Vikas Tomar, for receiving the Louis Stokes Alliance for minority Participation-Indiana at Purdue Outstanding Mentor Award.

Chancellor Henry Yang of the University of California, Santa Barbara, former Head of AAE and Dean of Engineering at Purdue, will be the commencement speaker at West Virginia University on May 14, where he will also receive an Honorary Doctorate.

Congratulations to Michael Bociaga who won First place in the STK Expert Category: Land/Sea/Air of the 2011 AGI University Grant Competition.

After 34 years of research and development, 10 years of flight preparation, a 1.5 year flight mission and 5 years of data analysis, NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s 1916 general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test. The findings are online in the journal Physical Review Letters.