Engineers from Boeing Phantom Works took advantage of a unique opportunity in February to exchange ideas with a handful of future engineers at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Pictured: L ~ R Dr. Tom Shih, Stu Voboril – Director, Special Pursuits Cell (SPC) Jerad Hayes, Senior Manager Proprietary Programs, Keith Etling, Senior Manager Advanced Technologies, Boeing Phantom Works, Dr. John Sullivan

A forum with Douglas Brinkley, noted author and historian from Rice University, who recorded hours of interviews with Neil Armstrong: With an introduction by President Daniels.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed France A. Cordova, president emerita of Purdue, as director of the National Science Foundation.

AAE faculty Dr. Alina Alexeenko and Dr. Wenbin Yu have been selected as IMPACT Faculty Fellows and will participate in the Spring 2014 cohort of IMPACT.

Prof. Steven Collicott’s AAE418 "Zero-Gravity Flight Experiments" class have been selected by NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program as one of the best proposals submitted this year.

US News & World Report published their annual rankings of graduate programs. The College of Engineering maintained its #8 ranking, and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics have moved up in the rankings this year.

AAE graduate student Cheng Huang has been awarded the 2013 John Zink Company Fellowship.

In its 40th Annual Salute to Women on March 4, 2014, the Greater Lafayette YWCA presented Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, the Mary Keller Ade Woman of Wisdom Award.

The replica hypersonic space plane, called the X-20 Dyna-Soar, was unveiled in October. It was a gift to the College of Engineering from Boeing Co., which developed it through a U.S. Air Force program to create a manned, military space plane.

Michael D. Sangid, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics has received a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through its Young Investigator Program (YIP) award.