Spotlights

August 8, 2018

AAE students' Mars pioneering base work wins AIAA best paper award

A paper authored by Elizabeth Marandola (MSAAE '17) and a team of AAE graduate and undergraduate students was selected by the AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee.

August 8, 2018

AAE students earn best poster awards for SURF

Seniors Richard Brookes and Adam Patel completed the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program on high notes.

August 5, 2018

AAE students celebrate commencement

A list of AAE students who graduated in August.

August 3, 2018

Pipes receives honorary degree from University of Edinburgh

At the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering graduation ceremony in July, Purdue's John L. Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering R. Byron Pipes received Doctor Honoris Causa.

August 1, 2018

Purdue students enriched by Maymester course in Australia

Students from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics were joined by civil engineering and mechanical engineering students on the nearly two-week trip to Sydney.

July 31, 2018

Mark Geyer brings daring, but reasoned, approach to director role at NASA's Johnson Space Center

Mark Geyer (BSAAE '82, MSAAE '84), who became the 12th director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in late May, is ready to remind the world NASA is "back in the business of launching people" into space.

July 30, 2018

Purdue School Launchboxes available to send school experiments into space

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics developed the "launchboxes" so K-12 schools can conduct zero-gravity experiments in space.

July 25, 2018

Student-developed communication network for UAVs interests NASA

A group of students in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics won NASA's University Student Research Challenge but still has work to do to secure a grant.

July 25, 2018

AAE student Jain earns FAA Center of Excellence fellowship

Utsav Jain, a Ph.D student in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has spent the summer at the FAA's William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

July 25, 2018

Howell is developing potential orbits around a Lagrange point

Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Kathleen Howell -- and a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), a specialty of hers -- was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek.

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AAE students' Mars pioneering base work wins AIAA best paper award

AAE students earn best poster awards for SURF

AAE students celebrate commencement

Pipes receives honorary degree from University of Edinburgh

Purdue students enriched by Maymester course in Australia

Mark Geyer brings daring, but reasoned, approach to director role at NASA's Johnson Space Center

Purdue School Launchboxes available to send school experiments into space

Student-developed communication network for UAVs interests NASA

AAE student Jain earns FAA Center of Excellence fellowship

Howell is developing potential orbits around a Lagrange point