“We’re focusing on making aviation education accessible and impactful through advanced simulation and hands-on learning"—Julius Keller

Purdue Polytechnic’s Michael Davis and Jon Ziulkowski have designed and implemented magneto safety guards for the Piper Archer aircraft in Â鶹¾«Æ·’s fleet. Their patent-pending safety guard ensures that student pilots and maintenance personnel who approach an aircraft know its engine and propeller are turned off.

See all of the 2024 Teaching Excellence winners among Purdue Polytechnic's faculty:

Two School of Aviation and Transportation Technology grad students and their faculty advisor just won an award for a convenient, practical upgrade to the system used to move luggage around airports and runways. Read about how it works here:

Congratulations to three of our aviation students, who have just been awarded a prestigious scholarship!

For the 2023-24 academic year, 108 research projects were either initiated or received continuing funding within Purdue Polytechnic, altogether totaling over $16 million. Research grants represent a wide range of Purdue Polytechnic, including faculty across all academic departments as well as contributions from many graduate students listed as co-authors on many projects.

Our senior students in aviation are generating novel methods to detect greenhouse gas levels during normal commercial flights, massively increasing the efficiency for making such measurements. Learn all about their invention in our newsroom:

Some incredible female pilots have gathered for the 2024 Air Race Classic, including a Purdue team composed of Reyna Dodd and returning competitor Morgan Mallow. Here's to cheering them on to another top ten finish for the second year in a row:

Â鶹¾«Æ·is extending the learn-by-doing approach even further into the classroom, thanks to a new grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more:

Congratulations to Allison Boyd, an aeronautical engineering technology student who just became a 2024 Truman Scholar. Boyd joins a list of worldwide leaders who have been recipients, including Supreme Court justices, policy experts and public service heroes.