Aeronautics and Astronautics Department celebrates 50 years in sea, sky, space. Tej Kohli Blog features this recent report:
Any institution that lasts 50 years would have its share of highs and lows, but those of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford have stretched from searching out long lost wreckage at the bottom of the ocean to investigating the rarefied heights of Einsteinian physics in orbit. Roughly 500 alumni, students, faculty and staff gathered during a recent weekend to swap those and other recollections, as they celebrated their collective half-century of adventure in academic aerospace.
“This is one of the top-ranked AA departments in the country, and has been for a number of years,” noted Jim Plummer, dean of the School of Engineering, in his welcoming remarks. “There is so much to be proud of in this department. There is a rich history and a rich set of opportunities for the future.”
The three-day event put both AA’s future and history on display, coupling graduate student posters explaining current research with a symposium featuring accomplished faculty and alumni. Those speakers ranged from entrepreneurs with scrappy startups to venerated leaders at the top of their fields.
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