Spotlight Archives

	AAE Professor's research chosen to fly on Blue Origin's suborbital vehicle Blue Origin selected Professor Collicott's Three-Dimensional Critical Wetting Experiment in Microgravity as one of three unmanned research payloads to fly on the New Shepard suborbital vehicle as a part of Phase 1 of the New Shepard Research Flight Demonstration Program.
	AAE Alum receives Flight International's Boeing-sponsored Engineering Student of the Year Award Michael Grant graduated first in his class with an aero engineering degree from Purdue in 2005. Now a grad student at Georgia Tech, he focuses on coming up with ways in which a spacecraft can descend more gently once it bursts into a planet's atmosphere.
	Space Day Inspires Young Students Purdue University was looking to find the next Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin with the annual Space Day program on campus!
	Slide Rule Packin' Mamas: The Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Engineering Cadettes fo WWII Join us on Thursday, November 12, for a fascinating presentation on the Curtiss-Wright Cadettes, a group of more than 900 women trained as aeronautical engineers at seven different universities from 1943-44. Three hundred of the Cadettes were trained here at Purdue.
	AAE Graduate Student, Daniel Grebow, Selected by NASA to Attend IAC 2009 Daniel Grebow was selected, as one of only ten graduate students nationwide, as a NASA student representative to the 2009 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Daejeon, South Korea.

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