This Vietnamese American alumna is working hard to live up to the struggles her parents faced in leaving their home country

Every unruly environment needs someone to keep tabs on all the comings and goings, like the hall monitors who are ubiquitous in schools. But while the corridors and movements inside a school are bounded and relatively easy to chart, the great hall of space — in its cosmic vastness, large numbers of objects, and trajectory uncertainties — is another thing altogether.

Every single space launch has a high cost associated with mass and volume. A transformable system that can adapt its shape or function in situ, like an unfolding origami model, will address the challenges of high mass and volume demands in space missions.

Teams from China, Italy and Poland bring their programming and UAV skills to competition at Purdue.

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.