Every year, the students of Purdue SAE design, build, and compete with custom race cars. This year, the Purdue Formula team finished 2nd among all competing universities. In this episode of the official This is Purdue podcast, we go behind the scenes of their first ever live unveiling event, and discuss why students devote their time to building race cars.

Three new faculty have joined the School of Mechanical Engineering in August 2022, bringing our total to 94 tenure-track faculty. Let's meet these three new faculty!

Jesse Omondi loved three things: business, basketball, and engineering. At Purdue University, he found the perfect combination of all three! As this graduating senior moves on to the business and consulting world, he reflects on his Purdue journey.

A Purdue Engineering team will collaborate with the lead institution University of New Hampshire (UNH), NASA and the University of Alabama to explore a new paradigm in manufacturing for the equitable commercialization, industrialization, and democratization of in-space manufacturing (ISM).

To journey and return from other planets, future spacecraft may have to do something they've never done before: refueling in space. Thanks to a Purdue University experiment, scientists are now beginning to understand how cryogenic liquids behave in zero-gravity, and how this affects the future operation of propellant depots in space.

When the National Science Foundation (NSF) asks manufacturing engineers to think big, Purdue University researchers think really big. They proposed a breakthrough vision and roadmap to tackle history’s most persistent problem: food security. Their plan, creating a manufacturing infrastructure for cultured meat, has won 1st place in the NSF Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition.

Tahira Reid Smith, associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, has been named an "emerging leader" by the Society of Women Engineers.

They say “slow and steady wins the race.” But does that apply to motorsports? For 30 years, Purdue Formula have been pushing their custom-built race car up the mountain, and in 2022, they reached their best-ever podium finish: 2nd place overall.

Laura Blumenschein, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list for 2022. Blumenschein developed the Vine robot, an inflatable soft robot which can maneuver through tight spaces.

Brother and sister Reese and Riley Holloway are twins with much more in common than 50% of their DNA. Both served as Purdue College of Engineering ambassadors, received best project awards for their senior design projects and recently accepted positions at Fortune 500 companies upon graduation from Purdue this spring — an accomplishment they credit to their professors, senior design teams and strong bond as twins.