The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday, Oct. 15, ratified the appointment of Stephen D. Heister as the Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineering and Technology Integration.

It is with great sadness that we learned Harold Miller DeGroff Jr., 90, of Indianapolis, formerly of Connersville and West Lafayette, died Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in Indianapolis.

AAE Professor is the recipient of the ASME Materials Division Orr "Early Career" Award for 2010.

In 2010, NASA selected six graduate students from across the US to attend the 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Prague, Czech Republic. Two of these student ambassadors were from AAE: Diane Craig Davis and Geoff Wawrzyniak.

"With three minutes, you can study transient behavior of entire systems and not just components," says Purdue University aeronautics researcher Steven Collicott, whose experiment on critical surface wetting in microgravity was one of three selected for a free trip on an upcoming suborbital test flight by Blue Origin, an aerospace company in Kent, Washington.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics was established on the Purdue campus as a separate academic unit on July 1, 1945, but aeronautical engineering activities can be dated back to 1910 when Professor Cicero Bailey Veal from the School of Mechanical Engineering started the Purdue Aero Club.

Corporate recruiters surveyed by the Wall Street Journal give Purdue high praise and high rankings. The recruiters ranked Purdue 4th overall, and the College of Engineering 2nd.