The School of Mechanical Engineering is giving awards to deserving sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduate students who demonstrate academic excellence, exemplify personal integrity, and exercise involvement in the community of Purdue University. But they can't win unless you nominate them! Deadline for nominations is Friday, March 19, 2021.

With more than 700 graduate students, Purdue ME recruits the best and the brightest minds in engineering. A select few have now received scholarships to further their research and education.

A 3-month study led by Prof. Yan Chen concludes that, with proper safety protocols, riding on an elevator presents a low risk for COVID exposure. Chen conducted the study with the world's largest elevator company, Otis.

Simple fluids are easy to model in computer simulations. But what if you're dealing with a mud or a slurry? For these complex flows, Purdue researchers have demonstrated the success of a two-fluid model, where the fluid and its suspended particles are modeled as if they were two separate fluids.

For the second year in a row, Purdue ME is the #1 mechanical engineering online master's program in the country, as ranked by US News and World Report.

When Patrick Mahomes got a concussion, we all saw it. But what about the smaller brain injuries you don't see? Prof. Eric Nauman is quoted in this article about how mild hits accumulate damage to the brain.

Aircraft turbulence is very complex, with vortices that collide and "dance" with each other. Carlo Scalo has simulated this "dance" using Purdue's supercomputers, creating models that aircraft designers can use to make future aircraft safer.

A Purdue team has received a $3.2 million grant from NASA's University Leadership Initiative to use optical and laser-based sensors to monitor the flow around the surfaces of hypersonic vehicles. The team includes Purdue ME professors Chris Goldenstein, Bob Lucht, and Terrence Meyer.

Joseph Pearson, heat transfer professor for 34 years at Purdue Mechanical Engineering, has passed away.

Congratulations to Sansit Patnaik, who won a design competition in Germany by optimizing the battery housing for an electric car. Sansit, a PhD student under Fabio Semperlotti, collaborated remotely with friends at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.