Thendral Kamal, a sophomore in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, met her Purdue Engineering hero, Sirisha Bandla, a member of Purdue University's Cradle of Astronauts.

PhD AAE student Nick Gunady (BSAAE '21, MSAAE '22) fired up Aerovy Mobility, a company based on a competition-winning project he led in 2022.

AAE student Kenneth Pritchard shares his experiences as part of a Purdue team on a two-week mission simulating the experiences of crew life on a research station on the red planet.

Students voted in record numbers this year and gave LeGrand the E.F. Bruhn Teaching Award from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Dianyun Zhang, Tyler Tallman and Joseph Jewell have been promoted to associate professors. Briony Horgan, an EAPS faculty member with a courtesy appointment to AAE, was promoted to full professor.

Accessible program is designed to bring working engineers up to speed

Testing new designs for jet engine turbines is no easy task. Wind tunnels are large, complicated, and expensive; and building functional prototypes takes a long time. But Purdue University researchers now have an alternative: a water table which simulates supersonic flow, enabling them to quickly test and iterate their designs.