Congratulations to AAE Associate Professor, Vikas Tomar, for receiving the Louis Stokes Alliance for minority Participation-Indiana at Purdue Outstanding Mentor Award.

Chancellor Henry Yang of the University of California, Santa Barbara, former Head of AAE and Dean of Engineering at Purdue, will be the commencement speaker at West Virginia University on May 14, where he will also receive an Honorary Doctorate.

Congratulations to Michael Bociaga who won First place in the STK Expert Category: Land/Sea/Air of the 2011 AGI University Grant Competition.

After 34 years of research and development, 10 years of flight preparation, a 1.5 year flight mission and 5 years of data analysis, NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s 1916 general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test. The findings are online in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Purdue President, France Córdova signed an agreement with Beihang University President Huai Jinpeng to form the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Energy Systems and the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Low Emissions Combustion. Beihang University also is known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

For 30 years Purdue University has been ubiquitous with the space shuttle program.
More than a third of all shuttle flights have carried a Boilermaker.
But it's all coming to an end.

After 30 years, 135 launches and the completion of goals once only dreamed about, NASA's space shuttle program is coming to a close with no immediate replacement in sight.

Professor Terry A. Weisshaar is retiring from a 41 year career in academia and government where his career included positions at three major universities.