School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Ph.D. student Amanda Haapala received the 2014 Leading Light Award on October 1, 2014 in a special awards ceremony in Indianapolis. Sponsored by Women & Hi-Tech, the Leading Light Award honors women of achievement in science, education, and technology. Amanda received recognition for her demonstrated exceptional and substantive accomplishments as a recipient of the Rising Star Award for achievements in technology, science or engineering related careers.

Dr. Michael Sangid, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Assistant Professor, has been selected as a recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process.

Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduate student Ronak Dave will be honored as one of tomorrow's engineering leaders at Penton's Aviation Week Twenty20s Awards ceremony on November 20, 2014, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Michael Sangid, Assistant Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been selected to present at the National Academy of Engineering 2014 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium to be held November 10-12, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.

Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics was pleased to welcome Air Force Major General Thomas J. "Tom" Masiello to the 2014 Charles Rolls and Henry Royce Memorial Lecture on October 8, 2014. General Masiello spoke to the audience in the Purdue Memorial South Ballroom on the topic of National Defense: The Role of Science and Technology. Opening remarks were made by Purdue President Mitch Daniels and School of AAE Head Dr. Tom Shih.

Mr. Scott Meyer, the Managing Director of Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories, has been named as a finalist for the College of Engineering Staff Awards of Excellence. Mr. Meyer is one of three finalists for the Leadership Award.

Recipients of the David and Linda Schimmel Swain Scholarship had the opportunity to meet with Dr. and Mrs. Swain on Saturday, September 20, 2014.

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels honored Dr. Ronald L. Kerber (BSAE'65; DEA'88; OAE'99) and his wife Kathleen M. Kerber with the President's Council Distinguished Pinnacle award on September 20, 2014.

School of AAE Alum Dr. John Schmisseur (Ph.D.'97) named Professor of Aerospace Engineering and H.H. Arnold Chair at University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Houston Chronicle recently profiled Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Jeremy Voigt. A student of AAE's Professor Steven Collicott, Voigt and a team of engineers are in California's Mojave Desert to test a new pump that supplies fuel to a rocket engine built by XCOR. Voigt is profiled in part 4 of the multi-part article series.