"Rise Above The Rest"

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics will again be at the State Fair on "Purdue Day" which will take place on Wednesday August 15, 2007. Mark your calendar and we will see you at the Fair.

NASA's top administrator, Michael Griffin, will discuss the history and importance of aerospace education and research as the keynote speaker of the eighth William E. Boeing Distinguished Lecture at Purdue University.

His talk, "System Engineering and the Two Cultures of Engineering," is sponsored by the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and will be held in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall at 1 p.m. on Wednesday (March 28). The event is free and open to the public.

Professor Mario Rotea has been elevated to the grade of Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to robust and optimal control of multivariable systems.

William H. Gerstenmaier BSAAE 1977, OAE 2003

A hybrid rocket technology demonstrator is being developed and tested at Purdue University to serve as a test bed for flight testing technologies critical to the development of a small satellite launch vehicle.

The College of Engineering presents General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin named nine new members to the NASA Advisory Council in September of 2006, including School of Aeronautics & Astronautics faculty member, Dr. John P. Sullivan.

The AAE Fall 2006 Colloquium Series

Presented by Daniel L. Dumbacher, Deputy Director, NASA Exploration Launch Projects Office
Marshall Space Flight Center

Purdue alumni have flown more than one-third of all manned U.S. flights, including Gus Grissom from Project Mercury in 1961; Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and Grissom in the Gemini program in 1965 and 1966, and Armstrong and Cernan in the Apollo program from 1969–1972. Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, respectively, were the first and last men to set foot on the moon.