The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics AAE 450 Senior Spacecraft Design class will hold its final presentation on Thursday, April 23, 2015. The presentations, which will include review by Gemini and Apollo astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin, will highlight the culmination of work done as part of Dr. James Longuski's class.

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumnus Michael Corso (BSAAE'71; OAE'11) will present a special lecture on unmanned aerospace vehicles entitled Drones: The Growing Proliferation of Unmanned Aircraft in the National Airspace System on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The lecture will take place on the campus of Florida SouthWestern State College.

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduate student Joseph Lorenzetti was awarded third place for the College of Engineering at the recent Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium.

In recognition of the influential role that the academic leaders of engineering colleges play in creating the engineers of tomorrow, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology has established the Kate Gleason Medal for Leadership in Engineering Education. The college will bestow its first award on Purdue University College of Engineering Dean Leah Jamieson.

Purdue University has joined a group of 122 U.S. universities to educate a new generation of engineers with specialties aimed at tackling some of the most pressing issues facing society.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A dedication ceremony is planned April 18 for Visiting Our Solar System, a $1.5 million student-led interactive exhibit that puts the size of space in perspective and celebrates the contributions of alumna and NASA astronaut Janice Voss (BSE Sc'75; DEA'12).

Congratulations to Purdue Space Day for receiving Purdue University's Outstanding Program Award at a banquet on Thursday, April 9, 2015.

Purdue's College of Engineering has awarded an Outstanding Service Scholarship to School of AAE Ph.D. student Devendra Verma.

A School of Aeronautics and Astronautics team has received an award for best student poster at the 16th Annual Purdue CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security) Information Security Symposium. The team was led by Cesare Guariniello, Ph.D. candidate; co-authors include Ph.D. candidates Zhemei Fang and Payuna Uday. Cesare and Zhemei are students of Dr. Dan DeLaurentis and Payuna is a student of Dr. Karen Marais.