On February 21^st, the College of Engineering will honor Andrea M. Chavez (BSAAE '88) and Jim Miller (BSAAE '86) as two out of ten Engineering Alumni who are distinguished in their engineering careers. The College of Engineering has over 85,000 living alumni. The distinction of DEA has been bestowed upon 489 of the outstanding individuals.

The model of the Boeing X-20 was lifted into position in the atrium of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Friday January 10.

Congratulations to Professor Nicole Key (by courtesy) who is the 2014 recipient of the Dilip R. Ballal Early Career Award.

Nearly 200 Purdue faculty and staff gathered in November for the Excellence in Research Awards dinner, celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of Purdue's research community.

Tamaira E. Ross, a 1998 School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumna, will be recognized for her engineering and aerospace expertise when she is inducted as a Boeing Technical Fellow on January 2, 2014

Professor Inseok Hwang's graduate students James Goppert and Cheolhyeon Kwon receive conference honors

Prof. Steven Collicott's AAE418 "Zero-Gravity Flight Experiments" class submitted an original research proposal to NASA in October, 2013. It was announced on December 18, 2013 that they were selected by NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program as one of the best proposals submitted this year.

Alinda Aligawesa, Kaela Martin, and Payuna Uday were selected to attend The NextProf workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Congratulations to Prof. Haifeng Wang who has been awarded a Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund.

Congratulations to Kurt Aikens (Prof. Blaisdell), Jacob Dennis (Prof. Pourpoint & Prof. Steven Son) Christopher Fugger (Prof. Anderson), and Nicholas Husen (Prof. Sullivan), who have been named as the 2013 recipients for The Purdue Forever Fellowship.