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.

An AAE undergraduate team was selected by NASA for the 2018 Micro-g NExT challenge to design and build an original spacewalk or exploration tool for testing in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

Three AAE faculty were among more than 300 faculty honored in November for years of service to Purdue. AAE Profs. Li Qiao, Kathleen Howell and James Doyle were among those honored.

For Cathi Chislaghi Roberts, the journey after Purdue has included flying in F-15s and F-16s, working on global consumer brands, and living in Switzerland.

AAE is helping to lead the way as a team of Purdue students and alumni plan to begin 2018 in an out-of-this world environment as part of a two-week mission to the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.