Though all public gatherings have been canceled, our seniors have been working hard on their capstone projects. The most innovative final projects have received the Malott Innovation Awards.

In the wake of the SARS epidemic in 2003, Prof. Yan Chen worked with Boeing on how to recirculate air in their airplanes to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. Did it work? Find out in this deep dive from the Washington Post.

Four Purdue ME students have received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for 2020. This is the most from any school at Purdue.

Remote education has forced teachers to use every tool in their toolbox. But augmented reality, which allows both visual and hands-on instruction from any setting, remains out-of-reach for most educators. Karthik Ramani's team has built an app platform called MetaAR, enabling students and teachers to easily collaborate using augmented reality.

Did COVID-19 cancel your internship or co-op? Join an ME Summer Project Team! Join a virtual team of 2-6 students, and work with a faculty or staff mentor on real-world engineering projects. Earn a $1,000 stipend at the completion of the project!

Jeff Rhoads' team have developed a low-cost CO2 sensor that determines whether people are present in a room. This allows HVAC systems to save energy by not heating and cooling empty rooms.

In American football, offensive linemen take more hits to the head than any other position. Eric Nauman's research has shown that those hits accumulate to cause real brain damage, even if there is no concussion diagnosis. But his experiments have shown that there may be a simple fix. If offensive linemen started each play standing up, rather than in a three-point stance, hits to the head would be reduced by 40%.

Phonon scattering is a phenomenon that describes how heat is conducted through materials. Until recently, most heat transfer researchers have only studied three-phonon scattering. But Prof. Xiulin Ruan and his team have demonstrated for the first time, through both theory and experimentation, the importance of four-phonon scattering in infrared and Raman spectra.

The School of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to announce the winners for outstanding sophomore, junior, and senior for the academic year 2019-2020. These students have demonstrated academic excellence, exemplified personal integrity, and exercised involvement in the community of Purdue University.

Hand sketching is a great way to bring ideas to life, but many engineers feel they need artistic talent to sketch. Not so! Anyone can do it, if they learn how. Prof. Karthik Ramani is now offering his sketching workshop for engineers, online for free.