Purdue graduate Mark Geyer has been appointed as deputy program manager of NASA's Constellation Program. The program will be based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Geyer earned a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue.

The Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Student Advisory Council was founded in 1998 with the purpose of increasing interaction between undergraduate engineering students at all levels of education and the administration of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.