AAE graduate student Deepak Atyam is being recognized as one of "Tomorrow’s Engineering Leaders: The 20 Twenties." The award recognizes top engineering, math, science and technology students based on their academic excellence, research and projects undertaken, and the contributions they are making to the broader community.

AAE Associate Professor Li Qiao and PhD student Sayan Biswas were recently awarded first prize for artistic merit in the 2015 Combustion Art Competition. Biswas says the artwork, titled “Afrit (Arabian mythology) - The Fire Monster,” came out of their current research that focuses on developing advanced fuel efficient and emission free combustion system for gas engines.

AAE Assistant Professor Sally Bane has been awarded a Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) grant through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

AAE PhD student Ali Raz is the recipient of the 2016 Johns Hopkins University/ Applied Physics Laboratory Alexander Kossiakoff Scholarship from the INCOSE Foundation.

The Purdue Hyperloop team was among 30 teams selected to advance during the SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition last weekend at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

AAE Associate Professor James L. Garrison has been honored with the Institute of Navigation (ION) Tycho Brahe Award for outstanding contributions to the science of space navigation, guidance, and control.

Professor Barrett S. Caldwell has been named to the 2016-2017 class of Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF), an initiative of the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State.

Kathleen Howell, Distinguished Hsu Lo Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, has been named one of the “30 Most Innovative Women Professors Alive Today.”

Astronaut and AAE Visiting Professor David Wolf is assisting The Children's Museum of Indianapolis with its new permanent exhibit designed to capture the excitement of space exploration. Dr. Wolf is the Museum’s first Extraordinary Scientist-in-Residence.

A student team from Purdue University will compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition January 29th and 30th at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Team members participated in a hyperloop class taught by faculty members, including AAE Associate Professor Alina Alexeenko.