Researchers at Purdue University have developed new combustion technology that can shrink the size of engines and eliminates the need for them to be round in shape.

AAE Professor Steven Schneider was co-chair of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel working on hypersonic boundary-layer transition prediction that won the AVT Panel Excellence Award.

The paper, "Integrated Sensor Network and Battery Management System for State of Health Estimation and Safety Control of Lithium-ion Batteries," won in the TMS Light Metals and Extraction & Processing Divisions - Energy.

Since 2014, the Young Professionals Advisory Council has facilitated discussions with faculty and staff in AAE with the goal of benefitting undergraduate students.

Eldon Knuth (BSAE '49. MSAE '50) recently received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in a combat zone, 75 years after the end of his service in the U.S. Army.

AAE Professor Steven Collicott began his three-year term in November 2020 with the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), starting as president-elect, moving to president and finishing as conference organizer.

Jeri Lynn Metzger (BSAAE '05), Tamaira Ross (BSAAE '96, MSAAE '99) and Heather Wiest (MSAAE '13, PhD AAE '17) were honored at the WE20 virtual conference by the world's largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology.

Shaoshuai Mou, an assistant professor in AAE, is co-director of the new Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON) that helps researchers and practitioners integrate diverse multidisciplinary techniques and ideas to enable the next generation of autonomous and connected systems.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Purdue Space Program/SEDS, students created the Midwest Rocketry Forum that includes podcasts and workshops.

In this episode meet Ran Dai, an associate professor in AAE. We'll learn more about her work with control of autonomous systems, computational optimization, networked dynamical systems and learning-enabled optimal control.