Purdue was one of 45 college teams chosen to participate in the 2019 NASA Student Launch competition in April near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Tom Shih, the J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will step down in August 2019 and transition to full-time faculty in AAE.
Carolin Frueh, assistant professor in AAE, was elected to serve as chair of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS) at the COSPAR Scientific Assembly from 2018-2022.
Sophomore Wellington Froelich started "Eddie's Causerie" last year, but he's changed the theme in Year 2 to focus on interviews with Purdue people who have technical projects on campus and industry professionals.