Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, visited Purdue University this week to see two of its leading-edge facilities for national security and to speak to top cybersecurity researchers from around the nation. Shyu said the work she saw at the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research and the Purdue Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility is “exactly what our national security needs right now."

Researchers have launched a multidisciplinary project to model, simulate and analyze cyber-physical systems. Their work will make those systems more robust and make system analysis more scalable and effective.

Interdisciplinary teams from Purdue won the second and third place prizes for their presentations.

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to prepare for future space exploration missions and generate innovations and benefits for humanity on Earth.

Students form ties to peers, industry leaders and astronauts in the only college organization of its kind.

AAE Prof. Garrison is principal investigator on a NASA mission to improve flood and drought prediction through a new Earth-sensing method

AAE assistant professor Ken Oguri writes that sustainability is a quest that extends into outer space.

The world's largest academic propulsion lab is being transformed. Read this and other news from Zucrow Labs in their annual report (PDF)