A one-day seminar on 'Aeronautical Materials and Systems for Defence Applications' was held on the 30th of March 2022 at the Senate Hall in Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh. Organized by the Aerospace Resources Panel(ARP) (AR& DB), Kanpur and AED PEC Chandigarh, this technical seminar was conducted by scientists from DRDO. The inaugural session consisted of a brief address of the Aeronautics Research and Development Board (AR&DB) by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Pandey, Additional Director at DRDO HQ, and an address by Dr. N Eswara Prasad, ARP Chairman, OS and Director, DMSRDE. Dr. Baldev Setia, Director of PEC acted as the Chief Guest for the session. Attended by Aerospace Engineering students, enthusiasts and faculty members, the event covered concepts about Unmanned Aerial Systems, Advanced materials for aero engines, New-Age Aircraft Materials and Electro Shape Memory in Smart Ceramics. Each of these lectures were hosted by experts like Sh. Vikrant Satya, TBRL, DRDO, Chandigarh, Sh. Vijay Petley, GTRE, DRDO, Bengaluru, Ms Chandreyi S Ghosh, ADE, DRDO, Bengaluru and Prof. Ratnamala Chatterjee, IIT Delhi respectively. After the descriptive and informative technical session, the event concluded with the annual meet of ARP.