AerE on hand at the Wings & Treats Halloween event at the James Herman Banning Ames Municipal Airport! Treat station found Matt Nelson of M:2:I and Iowa Space Grant Consortium, his wife Jennifer (left) and Iowa Space Grant Consortium's Hailey Waller! Iowa Space Grant

Suo Yang of the University of Minnesota will be a guest of the Department of Aerospace Engineering for a seminar November 14. This event is open to all at Iowa State University.

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!

Jincheng Wang final exam for Ph.D. scheduled for November 12. Please note this exam will be held in Elings Hall.

AerE’s brand new autoclave has arrived in Howe. It will be used primarily for Composites Lab work and will help students create 3D aircraft components with carbon fiber material donated by Boeing. It will also be available for other uses when put into use spring semester.

Want an insider edge on how you could work for SpaceX? Join us Wednesday for this special event! Make2Innovate Iowa Space Grant

Congratulations to our Wenjie Xia who has been selected as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Rising Star as part of their initial cohort. He will present research at the upcoming ASME IMECE international mechanical engineering conference in Portland, Oregon.

Amr Ragheb final exam for exam for M.S. November 14.

Phillip Misterman final exam for M.S. November 19.

Sungmoon Choi preliminary oral exam for Ph.D. to be held November 21.

Did you see this? The Iowa State Daily brings everyone up to date on the latest happenings with Rocketry Club: iowastatedaily.com/305592/news/cy…

Alumna Mackenzie Kilcoin will present our next Make To Innovate UNICOM Talk. She’ll discuss her journey from the M:2:I student program to her profession as a propulsion systems engineer with Rubicon Space Systems. 5 p.m., Alliant-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall. Open to all at ISU.

The Lighter Than Air Fly-Off is one week away! The Howe Hall atrium and undergrad lab have been humming with activity as the freshman student teams in AER E 1600 work to make qualifying flights with their remote controlled craft designed and constructed with supplied materials!

The M:2:I - Make To Innovate Expo is Wednesday, December 11! See the progress of the many student teams with their wide variety of projects, including some being prepped for national competitions! Howe Hall atrium, 4-6 p.m., and open to all at Iowa State! Make2Innovate

The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering has a great presence on the College of Engineering holiday tree at The Knoll. One of our AstroCy dolls is at the top and you’ll find other AerE decorations as well. Thanks to our Nikki Gupta and Maddi England for representing!

Astronaut, AerE educator, author and leader of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum Clayton Anderson is on the Spotlight with Elijah Moore podcast! Being an astronaut, world affairs, spirituality, the future and more are discussed. go.iastate.edu/Z5UAG5 Clayton C. Anderson - The Ordinary Spaceman™

Time to shine! Teams in the Make To Innovate (M:2:I) program displayed their hands-on work and discussed plans involving their many different projects in their Fall Semester Expo. Some teams are preparing for national competitions to be held in the coming months.

Furry friends land in AerE! Therapy dogs Lena and Sydni from the Iowa State University Police Department paid a visit to Howe and quickly made a squadron of new friends! Thank you Chris Easter of our AIAA student chapter and to Lena and Sydni's hooman Kinsey Phillips. This mission was a success!

"Blasting off again" in the Pokemon-themed Lighter Than Air Fly-Off! A total of 45 freshman teams flew their lighter than air remote controlled craft, with the aid of helium-filled balloons, through the Howe atrium obstacle course. See a separate post for the winning team!

Team Grubbin won the Lighter Than Air fall semester Fly-Off competition in the Howe atrium. A total of 45 freshman teams competed with Pokemon-themed craft. Congrats to Aeris Bonefas, Felicity Brokaw, Jason Detlefsen, Jordyn Doughty, Sama Jabbbar, Kayla Oftedahl (not pictured).