Congratulations to the ISR Firefighting team, led by team captain Shashank Tamaskar for winning 1st place in the spring 2010 AGI University Grant Competition!

Congratulations to Katya Casper for winning 1st place in the Research Symposium Series, along with 2nd place – Johnathan Goodsell, 3rd place – Brad Wheaton, Best Abstract – Isaac Tetzloff, and Best Undergraduate Presentation – Adam Loesch.

Kris Ezra, an AAE senior, will appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars along with 8 other Purdue students from the university's Latin and Ballroom Dance Team on May 11th at 8p.m.

Congratulations to Navindran Davendralingam, Aurelie Heritier, Lucia Irrgang, and Shae Williams on receiving the 2010 Summer Research Grant!

The First Annual AAE End of Year Banquet, hosted by Sigma Gamma Tau, was held Wednesday, April 21st to get all the members of the department together and recognize those that have had made major accomplishments throughout the past year

Professor Li Qiao and her Ph.D. student Yanan Gan won the Second Place Prize for the 2010 Combustion Art Competition of the Combustion Institute for their work "Flame, Gone with Butterfly."

Professor Li Qiao has received the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for her proposal "Ignition and Burning Behavior of Fuel Droplets with Energetic Nanoparticle Addition."