Iowa State University Department of Aerospace Engineering

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Congratulations to AerE faculty member Wenjie Xia who has been selected as a American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Rising Star as part of their initial cohort. He's been invited to present research alongside other awardees at the upcoming ASME IMECE international mechanical engineering conference in Portland, Oregon.

Want an insider edge on how you could work for SpaceX? Join us Wednesday for this special event! Make to Innovate (M:2:I) NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium

All hail the autoclave! AerE’s brand new autoclave has arrived and was carefully moved into its home in the department’s Composites Lab. Thanks to Jim Benson, Andrew “Jobo” Jordan and department chair Wayne Chen who assisted with the moving. Assistant teaching professor Carolyn Riedel showed off the new unit, which will be used primarily in her lab sections and will help students create 3D aircraft components with carbon fiber material donated by Boeing. It will be available for other uses as well when it is officially put into use spring semester. Riedel posed with the new autoclave and the existing one, which dates to the 1990s, that will be replaced.

In case you've never seen it! Great NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration story about Department of Aerospace Engineering alum Ken Iliff, re-posted in NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center X-Press newsletter.

Were they gifted by the Great Pumpkin or slyly air-dropped by a midnight drone? We may never know, but each picnic table in front of Howe Hall has been adorned with a pumpkin from a mysteeeerious secret admirer! We thank the Halloween spirits at work!

It was "plane" to see it was a good time at the Wings & Treats Halloween event at the James Herman Banning Ames Municipal Airport, especially with Department of Aerospace Engineering involvement! One of the aircraft treat stations had Make To Innovate (M:2:I) director and Iowa Space Grant Consortium Assistant Director Matthew Nelson with his wife Jennifer (left) and Iowa Space Grant Consortium's Hailey Waller all in the spirit! NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium

Space-based Q&A! Iowa State University and students from Iowa had center stage with International Space Station astronauts in a live In-Flight Education downlink sponsored by the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium. Students asked questions about life and science aboard the ISS and the livestream was shown in the Student Innovation Center's Step-A-Torium.

Want to learn how to pursue a concurrent grad degree while finishing up your AerE undergrad? Plan to be on hand for our next information session October 30. Scan the QR Code to R.S.V.P. Hui Hu

Luncheon learnin': Members of the department's Industrial Advisory Council met with students over lunch to answer questions and lend advice about entering the aerospace engineering field. Joe Barta (Hanger 48 Aeronautics), Dave Halstead (GE Aviation, retired), David Voracek (NASA) and Rick Rezabek (Lockheed Skunk Works, retired) led the discussions. Our thanks to them for their dedication to our students!