Spotlights

August 18, 2022

AAE student sees benefits from alumnus-funded scholarship even beyond graduation

A Purdue AAE graduate and former Track and Field athlete was compelled to establish a scholarship for aspiring Purdue engineers. One recipient is seeing its benefits even beyond graduation.

August 10, 2022

Angie Zhang and Daniel Mayper selected for Aviation Week 20 Twenties Recognition

For the sixth consecutive year, multiple AAE students were recognized in the Aviation Week 20 Twenties awards.

August 5, 2022

Cislunar Initiative's 2-Day Summit Explores a Proving Ground Facility for Space Operations

Purdue AAE brought together representatives from the aerospace industry and government to consider a Space Arena concept, which would provide facilities for testing many aspects of space exploration in one location.

July 28, 2022

Student wins INCOSE Best Paper award for construction failure analysis framework

A doctoral student in AAE received the award for his work that suggested a framework for Earth-based construction failure analysis. This framework could eventually lead to more reliable structures in space.

July 26, 2022

Purdue doctoral student receives Amelia Earhart Fellowship to study spacecraft dynamics

Maaninee Gupta is one of the recipients of this prestigious annual fellowship, which supports women in the aerospace industry.

July 22, 2022

Purdue ICON hosts Summit on Trusted Autonomy with DoD

The summit was organized around a set of generative brainstorming sessions where all of the participants contributed ideas towards enabling trusted autonomous systems.

July 21, 2022

Purdue Alum Ronak Dave's Next Giant Leap: NASA Flight Director

Ronak Dave, a Purdue AAE alum recently selected as a NASA flight director, will lead missions to the ISS and prepare for lunar missions with NASA’s Artemis program. Listen on the “This Is Purdue” podcast, hosted by Kate Young.

July 15, 2022

SWE Team Learning Drone Programming to Search Collapsed Buildings

Motivated by the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Florida, students in this Air Force-funded course are learning to program drones that could help locate people trapped inside a fallen building

July 11, 2022

Purdue Hosts NASA Conference on Safe Autonomous Systems

July 11, 2022

Student Team Wins FAA Competition by Tackling Power Needs in Electrified Aviation

Five Purdue engineering students demonstrated how electrified aviation will place unprecedented demand on the power grid, and proposed a sophisticated solution to balance a UAM operator's significant energy needs.

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