Playing for a Big Ten championship basketball team is a huge commitment. But so is studying mechanical engineering! Purdue men's basketball player Chase Martin has found a way to combine these two pursuits — conducting a research project on the biomechanics of the perfect free throw.

In this episode of the official “This Is Purdue” podcast, we’re talking to Jennifer Rumsey, Chair and CEO of Cummins Inc. Jennifer discusses her experience as a Purdue mechanical engineering student and how that led her to four internships with Cummins during her Boilermaker journey. Her story is unique because not many people can say they interned for a company and later served in the most senior role — Chair and CEO — of that same company.

What if components in aircraft could morph in response to their external conditions, much like a bird changes the shape of its wings? Inspired by these natural phenomena, Andres Arrieta is developing morphing systems for hypersonic vehicles that respond to their environment.

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S. Hector Gomez is building computer models that can predict the recurrence of this cancer 15 months sooner than standard methods.

For nearly a decade, Xiulin Ruan and his research group have been at the forefront of how phonons interact with each other in materials. Now his team has worked with machine learning expert Guang Lin to develop a new computing method for predicting and modeling four-phonon scattering more quickly.

There is a lot happening at Zucrow Labs, the world's largest academic propulsion lab, including a $73 million addition that will transform the 24-acre campus. Learn more in Zucrow's annual report.

When COVID forced all students to become online learners in 2020, the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University made the most of the opportunity. Students and faculty collaborated to create a solid mechanics curriculum based around Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history.

Winfred M. "Win" Phillips, who served as head of Purdue Mechanical Engineering from 1980 to 1988, has died.

Purdue University has the #3 mechanical engineering program in the country over the last five years, according to the world's most comprehensive scholarly analytics platform, ScholarGPS.

Brittany Mills (BSME '20) built on her mechanical engineering degree by pursuing biomechanics, and now works for the Washington Nationals — the first Black female biomechanist in Major League Baseball.