Greg Shaver doesn’t believe there should be a trade-off between protecting the air we breathe and achieving better engine efficiency of large vehicles on the road. Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor and director of Purdue’s Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, is part of a national effort researching the reduction of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and microscopic particle emissions and improving the efficiency of diesel engines on the road today.

Leaders from Purdue, federal government, and industry celebrated the opening of the Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility (HARF), a $41 million, 65,000-square-foot building at Zucrow Labs that is home to two cutting-edge wind tunnels – the only Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel in the world, and a hypersonic pulse (HYPULSE) reflected shock/expansion tunnel.

Purdue was well-represented at ITherm 2023, winning three paper awards and four poster awards. The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems was held in Orlando, FL in June 2023.

Ryan Blaney claimed the checkered flag in Charlotte at the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race, with Jonathan Hassler (BSME '07) atop the pit box. It's Hassler's first win for the #12 team, after being named crew chief at the beginning of last season.

For Barry Turner (BSME '82), launching new companies is all in the family! Starting in his father's basement in 1988, Barry and his family have built Turner's Machining Specialties, Inc. into a major manufacturing supplier trusted by dozens of companies around the world.

Matt Kuebel (BSME '22) is a design engineer for Team Penske, who just won the Indy 500 with Josef Newgarden. Matt talks about how his experience at Purdue, particularly with the Baja SAE team, gave him the persistence, grit, and determination to succeed at the highest level of motorsports.

Not every internship showcases your work at 200 miles per hour on national television! For Purdue mechanical engineering student Zachary Nelson, an internship with IndyCar team Juncos Hollinger Racing is making his motorsports dreams come true.

When NASA’s Orion capsule reached the Moon’s orbit in November 2022, it sent back incredible images of the lunar surface. For Nat Keammerer (BSME ’94), this was more than just a neat postcard from space. It was the culmination of 10 years of work from his team at NASA, who are responsible for the communications, computers, and camera systems of the Orion capsule.

In the U.S., data centers account for approximately 2% of total electricity consumption; a large percentage of that is for cooling high-performance microchips. Purdue University researchers have received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop cooling systems for these microchips, making data centers more efficient and saving energy that will help mitigate climate change.

In Purdue ME, "GRIT" stands for: Global, Research, Industry, and Teams. Students who participate in all 4 of these during their Purdue career have "True GRIT!" Here are the students who made our first ever GRIT List.