Collaborating with international colleagues was a common occurrence before 2020, when lockdowns eliminated almost all international travel. As borders begin to re-open, no one is more excited than Amy Marconnet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue, who will soon depart for an extended research sabbatical in Germany, as part of the Humboldt Research Fellowship.

The Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowships at Purdue Engineering will pay promising postdoc researchers $70,000 a year to conduct groundbreaking research at Purdue.

More success for Purdue's student auto racing teams! Purdue Formula SAE scored a 6th place finish at the most recent in-person race event at Michigan International Speedway. Combined with their previous 2nd place in the Design presentation, the team finished a combined 3rd overall – the best result in their 29-year history!

Eckhard Groll and Guang Lin have projects supported by the Trask Innovation Fund from the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization: Groll for an oil-sensing system in refrigeration compressors, and Lin for a 4D cardiac ultrasound imaging system.

When Monique McClain joins Purdue ME as an assistant professor next month, she'll already be a Lafayette homeowner... something she couldn't imagine in her hometown of San Diego. Find out why the Greater Lafayette area is just right for her.

It's been a wild year for Xiulin Ruan, who created the world's whitest paint. On the latest episode of Purdue's official podcast, he talks about how his invention might combat global warming.

At Purdue Engineering, you can get involved in research, even in your very first year. FYE students Shantanu Sinha and Nathan Stonitsch joined Prof. Davide Ziviani in his project of cooling a lunar habitat simulator, as part of the Resilient Extra Terrestrial Habitat (RETH) Institute at Herrick Labs.

The science of locating sound has come a long way... from tin cans, to holographic microphone arrays. In this special publication from the National Academy of Engineering, Purdue acoustics experts Yangfan Liu, Stuart Bolton, and Patricia Davies discuss the history and future of acoustic source localization.

Issam Mudawar, the Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for 35 years of pioneering accomplishments and international leadership in high-heat flux thermal management of electronics and its impact on the cooling of computers, data centers, hybrid and all-electric vehicles, defense electronics and space vehicles.

Frank Lee is probably the only refrigeration technician in history to perform his job in zero gravity! After 25 years of service as an engineering technician (on the ground) at Purdue's Herrick Labs, Frank helped to test a new zero-gravity refrigerator prototype for NASA by embarking on a series of parabolic test flights.