Congratulations to Dr. Vikas Tomar on being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Prof Li Qiao and her graduate student Bogdan Pavlov won 2^nd place at the 2011 Combustion Art Competition of the Combustion Institute with Dr Combustion.

Presented annually to an Outstanding Teacher in the Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, selected by the undergraduate student body for excellence in teaching and made possible by the interest and generosity of friends and alumni of the school.

Col. Douglas Joyce (BSAAE '67) will be one of six ROTC alumni to be inducted in to the Purdue University Reserve Officer's Training Corps Hall of Fame on April 9^th.

Congratulations to Galen Harden and Alexandra Baucco on being named SGT Outstanding Senior Engineering Student and AAE Meritorious Senior Student of 2011, respectively.

Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stephen Heister has accepted the position as the new Director of the Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories, effective March 1, 2011.

Kathleen Howell, the Hsu Lo Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has tried a variety of methods for illustrating the 3-D rotation of an object in the unearthly environment of space, a perceptual problem beyond the earthly experiences of her students.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics is proud to announce that 3 professors are among the recipients of the 2011 College of Engineering Faculty Awards of Excellence.

Congratulations to the 2011 Magoon Winners: Neal Allgood, Matthew Kube-McDowell, Christopher Patterson, Rashmi Shah, Rohan Sood, and Shae Williams

On February 25^th, the College of Engineering will honor Thomas L. Maxwell (BSAAE '69) and Gary E. Payton (MSAAE '72) as 2 out of 10 Engineering Alumni who have distinguished themselves in their engineering careers.