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July 10, 2020

Women in Engineering Program leading activities remotely for area kids

Most summers, students from Women in Engineering at Purdue would lead STEM activities at Safe Harbor summer camp in Lafayette. Because of the pandemic, they have adapted, and are now teaching science activities through Zoom.

July 8, 2020

New refrigeration compressor design offers improved efficiency

PhD student Leon Brendel has developed a new scroll compressor design for refrigeration, where metal-on-metal sliding is reduced, and efficiency increased.

July 7, 2020

Arezoo Ardekani chosen for National Academy of Engineering symposium

Associate professor Arezoo Ardekani has been chosen to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Ardekani studies complex fluid mechanics at the microscale.

July 6, 2020

Truck platooning webinar now online

Purdue ME professors Greg Shaver and Neera Jain joined their industry partners to discuss the benefits of semi-autonomous truck platooning, in this public webinar.

July 3, 2020

Farshid Sadeghi elected Honorary Member of ASME

Farshid Sadeghi has been unanimously elected as an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

July 2, 2020

Get your master's degree 100% online from Purdue ME

Same faculty. Same courses. Same degree. Less than $25,000. The online Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University is the best of both worlds for working professionals.

July 1, 2020

International team designing a hovering star rover

Do you have a love for space, and a love for working globally? Join Project Polaris, an international collaboration between Purdue and colleagues in Costa Rica and France, to design a buoyancy guided hovering star rover.

June 30, 2020

How to make robots behave more like people, and why it matters

Sometimes autonomous machines, like self-driving cars, can be too smart for their own good. In this Forbes article, Neera Jain says these machines also need to factor in the responses of the human operator to be successful.

June 29, 2020

New forensics tool captures footprints in 3D

Song Zhang has developed a portable 3D imaging system that quickly captures forensic evidence like footprints and tire treads, which can later be analyzed in full detail in a lab. His innovation was recently highlighted by the National Institute of Justice.

June 26, 2020

Interning at Kennedy Space Center

Alexandra Loyot, a Purdue ME student, worked as a NASA intern at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, experimenting with how to grow crops on Mars.

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