School of AAE Alum Dr. John Schmisseur (Ph.D.'97) named Professor of Aerospace Engineering and H.H. Arnold Chair at University of Tennessee Knoxville.

The Houston Chronicle recently profiled Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Jeremy Voigt. A student of AAE's Professor Steven Collicott, Voigt and a team of engineers are in California's Mojave Desert to test a new pump that supplies fuel to a rocket engine built by XCOR. Voigt is profiled in part 4 of the multi-part article series.

The Department of Transportation is accepting nominations for the RAISE (Recognizing Aviation Innovation in Space and Engineering) Award recipients through October 31, 2014.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics was pleased to welcome friends from Northrop Grumman who were on campus as part of the 2014 Purdue Engineering Student Council-Sponsored Industrial Roundtable (IR) September 16 and 17, 2014.

School of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Distinguished Hsu Lo Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Dr. Kathleen Howell will be inducted in the Purdue University 2013-2014 Teaching Academy at the induction ceremony on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 in the North Ballroom of the Purdue Memorial Union.

Imaginestics president Lloyd Fields shares sad news of Nainesh Rathod's passing on Thursday, September 11, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Plans for a Celebration of Life Ceremony have been announced.

Purdue University School of AAE undergraduates are participating in a five-university yearlong capstone project with students from Georgia Institute of Technology, Brigham Young, Tuskegee, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universities. School of AAE Professor John P. Sullivan says the program is "an education," where students gain expertise from faculty lectures.

Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Professor Steven Collicott shared his expertise in a recent Los Angeles Daily News space industry article on Sub-Orbital flight.

Five Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduate students recently completed a one-week summer program through the International Collegiate Design & Innovation Competition where they gained hands-on design experience completing team projects.