Purdue is part of a team, funded with a $9.8 million, three-year contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory, for research and development in materials and structures for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Purdue will perform wind tunnel tests and associated computer modeling since the University operates a unique wind tunnel capable of running “quietly” while conducting experiments in airstreams traveling at Mach 6.

Allissa Battocletti (BSAAE ’11) is an engineer working at NASA, where her area of expertise is spacewalks. Before launching her career, she enjoyed being a member of the Purduettes.

Jim Luckring (BS ’73, MS ’74) has received the NATO Science and Technology Organization AVT Panel Excellence Award and delivered the named Lanchester Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.

AAE students Kate Fowee and Kim Rink are among the 2018 winners of Aviation Week's "Tomorrow's Technology Leaders: The 20 Twenties."

AAE PhD students Andrea Nicolas, Gayathri Shivkumar and Pei Zhang have each received a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, which is administered by the Purdue Graduate School.

AAE Professor Dan Dumbacher is quoted in a Space News article about ISS research transition plans.

AAE Professor R. Byron Pipes is featured in a story about his work in composites at Purdue.

Scaled Composites, LLC - the proud home of several AAE alumni - successfully executed a low-speed taxi test of the world's largest aircraft.

Imagine working and living inside a simulated Mars colony for two weeks. If you're AAE PhD student Jennifer Pouplin (MS '16), that's a dream come true. She participated in the Poland Mars Analogue Simulation.

AAE Prof. Dan Dumbacher is quoted in a new report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which says NASA should raise the priority of research that addresses risks and the unknown of human space exploration. The report also highlights the importance of developing a plan for the International Space Station beyond 2024.