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AAE Assoc. Prof. William Anderson will serve as Director of the Global Engineering Program during the 3 year research leave of its current director, Rabi Mohtar.

On December 27, 2010 the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) was pleased to announce the 2011 AIAA Fellows and Honorary Fellows, including Purdue AAE's own Department Head and Professor, Tom I-P. Shih.

The Navy made history Saturday when it launched the first aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command, Lakehurst, N.J., test site using the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, technology.

What's the best way to speed up the colonization of Mars? Fly to the red planet and never come back. "The whole idea is very noble and representative of the human spirit to explore, but unfortunately their primary argument about self-preservation doesn't convince me as necessary," said Allen Yan, Purdue University aerospace engineering graduate student.

On December 8, 2010 NASA announced the selection of a team of undergraduate students from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Purdue University for "zero-gravity" flight testing of their proposed experiment.