Civil Air Patrol. Rolls-Royce. AAE. Sarah Burmesch (BS ’19) has a busy schedule, but that doesn’t stop her from trying to make a difference in the lives of younger students.

Harish Saranathan won the 2018 AIAA SciTech Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “The Relaxed Autonomously Switched Hybrid System (RASHS) Approach to Indirect Multi-Phase Trajectory Optimization for Aerospace Vehicles."

Jooyoung Lee, a PhD student in Professor Inseok Hwang’s research group, has received a “Best Student Paper” award from the 2018 SciTech Forum Intelligent Systems conference.

AAE Professor Alina Alexeenko co-leads the Advanced Lyophilization Technology Hub, or LyoHub, where research is being done to transform the freeze-drying process. Researchers and industry leaders are trying to modernize a process that has not changed fundamentally in 70 years even though it has a worldwide annual market of about $16 billion.

William Kellerhals (BS ’19) received a scholarship from the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). Kellerhals’ research focus is in structural analysis.

Purdue is part of a team, funded with a $9.8 million, three-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, for research and development in materials and structures for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Purdue will perform wind tunnel tests and associated computer modeling since the University operates a unique wind tunnel capable of running “quietly” while conducting experiments in airstreams traveling at Mach 6.

Allissa Battocletti (BSAAE ’11) is an engineer working at NASA, where her area of expertise is spacewalks. Before launching her career, she enjoyed being a member of the Purduettes.

Jim Luckring (BS ’73, MS ’74) has received the NATO Science and Technology Organization AVT Panel Excellence Award and delivered the named Lanchester Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.

AAE students Kate Fowee and Kim Rink are among the 2018 winners of Aviation Week's "Tomorrow's Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties."

AAE PhD students Andrea Nicolas, Gayathri Shivkumar and Pei Zhang have each received a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, which is administered by the Purdue Graduate School.