We take refrigeration for granted, but for developing countries it can become a game-changer for health, agriculture, and economic opportunities. Engineers Without Borders turned to the HVAC experts at Purdue's Herrick Labs to help create the "Chill Challenge," where teams build devices that can make ice and cold water at minimal cost.

Hector Gomez has been awarded a $600,000 grant as part of the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) competition.

The faculty, staff, and alumni of Purdue ME gathered online to send their happiest well-wishes to this year's graduating class!

Prof. Arezoo Ardekani has received the 2020 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology: "For highly innovative theoretical and computational research on the motion of particles and swimming organisms in viscoelastic fluids and flow of complex fluids through porous media, which are opening up new approaches to environmental remediation, energy production, and the design of biomedical devices."

Justin Weibel's team has pioneered a method of color-measuring at microscale using the sessile droplet technique, leading to new uses in biomedicine, agriculture, manufacturing, and water quality.

Subramanian Chidambaram has received the Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students from Purdue University's Graduate School. Subramanian is a third-year Ph.D. student working at the C Design Lab under Karthik Ramani.

Graduating ME senior Glynn Gallaway received a Fulbright grant to conduct research overseas. When international travel resumes, she'll be heading to Germany to research tissue engineering.

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) are in the spotlight now more than ever before. We need to make buildings smarter, so they autonomously adjust to the needs of their occupants. This is happening right now at Herrick Labs, the largest academic HVAC lab in the world.

Jeff Rhoads received the 2020 Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, one of only 5 such awards across the entire university.

Prof. Carlo Scalo, a fluid mechanics researcher specializing in hypersonics, has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as part of their Young Investigator Program (YIP) to perform computational modeling of fully turbulent hypersonic boundary layers.