Aerospace Engineering

AE senior design teams did well in the 2009 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics design competition, taking second and third places.

Jie Hua Lin of Bolingbrook, Illinois, has won an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association General John A. Wickham Scholarship.

AE graduate student Jacob A. Englander has been chosen for a National Aeronautics and Space Administration fellowship for his work on developing an autonomous design tool for interplanetary spacecraft missions.

A group of AE researchers has earned the Best Paper Award from a major continuum mechanics conference held in February in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Equipped with a vision to develop aircraft that mimic the autonomy and agility of bats, Soon-Jo Chung begins this fall semester as a new assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering.