Luke Longarzo is a graduate student in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University, where he is pursuing a Master of Science with a concentration in Controls, Astrodynamics and Space Application, expected December 2026.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in the same field from Purdue, graduating in May 2025. Luke’s path to aerospace was shaped early. Growing up in Los Angeles, he developed a hands-on engineering instinct as a lead on the competitive robotics team at Windward School, where he designed and fabricated mechanisms for a 125-pound competition robot alongside a 40-member team.

That same drive to build things that actually work has followed him ever since. At Purdue, Luke contributed to the Purdue Space Program as a structures and manufacturing engineer, building rocket components that brought the team within 100 feet of their 10,000-foot target altitude at competition.