On July 28, 2022, the Advancing Army Modernization Priorities – Undergraduate Program (AAMP-UP) held its end-of-summer Energetic Materials Research Symposium, which included a poster show and presentations, at the Stables Event Center in Lafayette, IN.

Dr. Bangalore Venkatesh graduated from both the MS and PhD programs in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is now a Lead Propulsion Analyst at Agile Space Industries, Inc.

The Blast is the official newsletter of the Purdue Energetics Research Center. Three times a year, the newsletter features a “blast” of content highlighting the projects, accomplishments and events associated with PERC and its affiliated faculty, staff, students, alumni and partner organizations. In this issue, read more about the AAMP-UP undergraduate research program, the Breakthrough Energetics conference, faculty and student accomplishments and other related Purdue defense news.

The Advancing Army Modernization Priorities – Undergraduate Program (AAMP-UP) kicked off its second year of in-person student summer research in Ray W. Herrick Laboratories on May 23, 2022. Until August 1, 2022, 41 students from nine universities across the country will be conducting energetics research with faculty, staff and graduate student mentors.

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), in partnership with Purdue University and Energetics Technology Center (ETC), hosted the inaugural Breakthrough Energetics Conference at Purdue on May 4-5, 2022. The goal of the conference was to advocate for increased investment in the U.S. energetic materials enterprise, including research & development, acquisition, adjacent technologies, manufacturing and workforce development.

Purdue University continues to hit the throttle on its interest in aerospace and national security, as the university announced the construction of the first-of-its-kind U.S. facility to test hypersonic technologies

Shweta Singh, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, will receive the 2021 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Environmental Division Early Career Award.

Brett M. Savoie, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, will lead one of 25 teams to receive 2021 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) funding from the Department of Defense as part of the Fiscal Year 2021 competition.

Advancing technology associated with explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics — what the scientific community calls energetic materials — is the goal of a new joint project between Purdue University and the United States Army.

Purdue Univeristy assistant professor Emre Gunduz used ultrasonic vibrations to maintain a flow of the material through the printer nozzle.