As a part of Penn State's Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium, AAE Prof. Carson Slabaugh presented a talk on pressure gain combustion (PGC) for advanced energy systems.

AAE alumnus Dr. Rakesh K. Kapania has been awarded the Platinum Jubilee Award by the School of Aerospace Engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science. Dr. Kapania is a renowned expert in aerospace structures and multidisciplinary design optimization.

AAE alumni are helping to make major advances in the development of experimental aircraft. Sarah Arnac and Joe Krsek were part of the team at Scaled Composites who completed the first flight of a new experimental aircraft.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced that AAE Prof. Daniel Dumbacher has been appointed executive director. As executive director, Dumbacher will lead the world’s largest aerospace technical society.

Purdue researchers, including AAE Prof. Kathleen Howell, confirmed the existence of a large open lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the moon. The tube could be used to protect astronauts from hazardous conditions on the surface of the moon.

Two members of the AAE faculty, Profs. Li Qiao and Steven Son, have been named Class of 2018 Associate Fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). They were chosen for their accomplishments and leadership in the global aerospace community.

AerosPACE is a Boeing-sponsored, award-winning, multi-disciplinary, and multi-university collaborative capstone program bringing together stakeholders from industry, academia and government to build core competencies for the next generation of aerospace innovators in a sociotechnical, collaborative environment founded in the learning sciences.

AAE alum Fernando de Caralt has been named Chief Executive Officer of BRS Aerospace. BRS is the world's leading designer and manufacturer of whole aircraft parachute systems.

Graduate student Geoffrey Andrews won second place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Individual Aircraft Design Competition. The challenge in the competition was to design a multi-mission amphibian aircraft capable of both passenger and cargo missions.

AAE alumna Mar Vaquero has been featured in a Washington Post story called “How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn.” The article discusses the billion-dollar spacecraft named Cassini, which was launched during the tenure of Bill Clinton and arrived at Saturn in the first term of George W. Bush.