If tractor-trailers could platoon (one truck autonomously following another), the aerodynamic drag alone would save up to 10% total fuel costs, as well as increasing safety.

Congratulations to Glynn Gallaway (BSME '20), who received a Fulbright scholarship to travel to Germany in 2021 and study human tissue engineering.

Associate Professor Amy Marconnet has received the 2020 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She has been recognized for "the development of a creative, interdisciplinary approach to evaluate, understand and control the physical mechanisms governing the thermal transport properties of materials, machines and systems."

Meet "Bernoulli," the autonomous robot that disinfects both air and surfaces of hospitals, dorms, and other public places. Purdue is building it, and we need your help! Join this Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) today and get academic credit!

Try our Online Master's program, without the big commitment! Take just two classes and earn a certificate in Reliability and Decision Making in Engineering Design. Then you can choose to apply those credits toward the #1 online master's degree in the nation, Purdue ME!

Students studying abroad in France, Spain, and Ecuador had to be recalled early because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that didn't stop them from collaborating remotely on this design for a protective testing booth, easily assembled by people in those countries.

J. Stuart Bolton, professor of mechanical engineering, has received the Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Four Purdue ME students have been chosen to collaborate with NASA on world-changing research, as part of the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO).

Ajay Malshe, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named one of the 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing, by the Society for Manufacturing Engineers.

In a hospital in Italy, robots have been attending to Coronavirus patients to assist the overwhelmed staff. Neera Jain explains in this Forbes article why it's so difficult for humans to trust robots.