Trustees ratified the appointment of William Crossley as the J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

A project, titled “Cognitive Autonomy for Human CPS: Turning Novices into Experts," that is co-led by the University of New Mexico and Purdue in collaboration with the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin, is part of a $5.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program.

Purdue University and Dynetics Inc. have signed a master research agreement for the design, manufacturing, production, testing, research and development of government systems and projects.

Murugan Palaniappan (BSAAE '10) was awarded the Young Engineering Alumnus Award at the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association dinner and awards presentation Sept. 27.

Ashwati Das was named by the Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) to the list of outstanding young space and satellite professionals under the age of 35.

Dengfeng Sun, an associate professor, and Joseph Jewell, an assistant professor, are part of the Class of 2020 awardees.

AAE alumni Matt Borg and Ben Linder were part of the Class of 2020 Associate Fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

AAE alum Tyler Mason, a software engineer associate at Lockheed Martin, returned to campus for YPAC in August.

Pavi Ravi (BSAAE '19) was one of 1,000 college students selected for the Forbes Under 30 Scholars Program.

Collin Drake (MSAAE '17), a flight science engineer for the Air Force, was involved in Air Force Research Laboratory’s Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS), a project that was awarded the Collier Trophy in June.