AAE Associate Professor Timothée Pourpoint has been selected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Pourpoint will be inducted with other new associate fellows from around the world at a ceremony during the AIAA SciTech Forum in Grapevine, TX on January 9, 2017.

AIAA is the world's largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession, with more than 35,000 individual members worldwide, and nearly 100 corporate members. AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. Professor Pourpoint’s research interests relate to propulsion, combustion, and energy storage.

According to the AIAA, associate fellows are "individuals of distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics." To be selected for the grade of associate fellow, an individual must be an AIAA senior member with at least twelve years' professional experience, and be recommended by a minimum of three current associate fellows. Only two percent of the AIAA's 35,000-plus members are elected as associate fellows each year.