Discovery Park has announced that effective this month, Dan DeLaurentis, professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and director of the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace, will serve as the inaugural director for the Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation (i-GSDI). DeLaurentis has served as the interim director of the institute since its launch in December.

AAE senior Pulkit Parolia is spending his summer on co-op at Rockwell Collins, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, IA.

AAE junior Benjamin Gutman is spending his summer on co-op with Innovative Scientific Solutions at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

AAE senior Maaninee Gupta is spending her summer doing as an intern at Greenlee Textron in Rockford, IL.

AAE senior Ryan Clay is spending his summer on co-op at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in Savannah, GA.

Technology developed by AAE Prof. James Garrison could more accurately sense soil moisture below the surface. This research could help agricultural producers make use of better forecasts to more efficiently irrigate their fields.

Sarah (Lindsey) Baldwin graduated with a BSAAE in 2010. She was involved in Purdue Space Day and SWE as an undergraduate. Sarah is currently a senior engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne.

AAE junior Bridget Cavanaugh is spending her summer on co-op at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

AAE graduate student Gayathri Shivkumar won the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Student Paper Award at the 44th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2017). The award acknowledges outstanding student contributions and encourages greater student participation as principal or sole authors of papers.

AAE alumnus Frank Bauer (BSAAE ’79, MSAAE ’80) has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. Bauer was recognized for “distinguished public service in enabling the enhanced use of the Global Positioning System for satellites by NASA and the United States.”