Congratulations to Amanda Haapala who has been selected to receive an Outstanding Service Scholarship in recognition of her contributions to the school, college, and university. Amanda is a doctoral student working with Prof. Kathleen Howell.

Prof. Li Qiao was recently awarded a CAREER grant, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for young researchers

Congratulations to AAE graduate students Amanda Haapala who was placed first, and to Irsha Ashok Pardeshi, who was placed second in the Engineering Sciences section of the Sigma Xi Poster Competition.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics congratulates Jian Xu for winning the prestigious Bilsland Dissertation Fellowships for the 2013-14 academic year.

AAE alumnus Dr. Pablo Zavattieri was recently awarded a CAREER grant, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for young researchers.

A check for undergraduate and graduate scholarships was presented on behalf of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. by Dr. Munir M. Sindir, Director of Engineering Technical Disciplines and a member of the Steering Advisory Committee (SAC) to Dr. Tom Shih, professor and head of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Rita Baines, Director of Development

On Feb. 15 the 50-meter-wide asteroid DA14 will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth. According to Prof. Jay Melosh, if the asteroid were to impact rather than nearly miss Earth, it would explode with a four-megaton force.

Congratulations to AAE alumni Litigation Attorney Michael J. Corso BSAAE'71, who has maintained Florida Bar Board Certification in Civil Trial Law for 30 years. Board certification evaluates attorneys’ special knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice.

On February 22nd, the College of Engineering will honor Mark A. Burgess(BSAAE'78, MSAAE'79, MSIA'82) and Richard Byram Rivir (BSAE'60) as two out of ten Engineering Alumni who are distinguished in their engineering careers. The College of Engineering has over 84,000 living alumni. The distinction of DEA has been bestowed upon 489 of these outstanding individuals.

Allissa Battocletti BSAAE'11, who is a member of NASA's EVA Operations team, took the opportunity to fly the Purdue flag during her rotation as instructor for NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL).