A recent article in the March 12 issue of Aviation Week features research being performed at the Zucrow Annex by AAE Propulsion Professors on a wave rotor combustion rig. [PDF]

According to AAE Prof. and Swift Enterprises Ltd. co-founder, "For general aviation aircraft, range is paramount. Not only can our fuel seamlessly replace the aviation industry's standard petroleum fuel, it can outperform it."

Professor DeLaurentis is one of eighteen Purdue faculty members selected to participate in three April 11 faculty symposia that precede the inauguration. He will take part in the "Serious Games for Serious Learning: Harnessing the Digital Generation" panel discussion.

The former council chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) will talk about Europe's space policy during the William E. Boeing Distinguished Lecture at Purdue on Thursday (April 10). Sigmar Wittig, a former Purdue professor, served as the ESA's council chair from 2005-07.

Amanda Briden is the 2008 Sigma Gamma Tau Outstanding Sr. Engineering Award winner.

NASA Assigns Crews for STS-127 and Expedition 19 Missions

Congratulations to Christine Linda Troy from Cincinnati, OH who has been awarded an Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award for 2007-2008. Christine is a senior in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. She has designed several new and useful computer tools, including a mission control console application to aid flight controllers during Space Shuttle ascent.

Dr. France A. Córdova became the 11th president of Purdue University on July 16, 2007, and will be formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Purdue's West Lafayette campus on April 11, 2008.

Purdue graduate Mike Moses BSAAE '89 is the Lead Shuttle Flight Director on STS-123 which is the current Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour.

More than forty Hall of Fame astronauts will gather at the Kennedy Space Center on May 2-3, 2008 to induct the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Class of 2008.