At a ceremony Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in the Kurz Atrium of Armstrong Hall, representatives of Boeing Corp. joined Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, in unveiling a replica of the X-20 Dyna-Soar space vehicle — a forerunner to the space shuttle.

In the just-released US News & World Report national rankings of undergraduate programs, Purdue ranks 8^th among engineering programs at doctoral-granting universities. The new ranking, up from 9^th last year, ties Purdue's undergraduate engineering programs with those at Carnegie-Mellon and Cornell. Last year, Purdue was tied with Cornell and the University of Texas at Austin.

Danielle Carpenter and Matt Wolf from agricultural and biological engineering, and Rush L. (Lloyd) Bartlett II from biomedical engineering are among the student inventors profiled in "Five students who invent."