Professor David DeWitt (1934-2005) came to Purdue University as a graduate student in the early 1960s. He became a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue, teaching for more than 25 years. He is best known for co-authoring (with colleague Frank Incropera) Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, the definitive undergraduate textbook on the subject, now in its 8th edition and utilized worldwide. This weekend, his family returned to campus to pay tribute to Prof. DeWitt, establishing the Professor David P. DeWitt Heat Transfer Research Endowment.

Eckhard Groll was inducted into Purdue's Cooperative Education Hall of Fame on September 14, 2018.

Dr. Rahul Mittal (MSME '93, Ph.D. '96) has been named a GM Technical Fellow for Diesel Aftertreatment Hardware. The Technical Fellow designation recognizes employees who have a high level of functional expertise critical to the business and have achieved global recognition for their knowledge, publications, patents, and awards.

Purdue MEs received recognition at the ASME Conference on Smart Structures, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2018), in San Antonio, Texas in September 2018.

Hye-Ran Moon and Stephanie Venis received Best Paper Awards at ASME 2018 6th Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2018), held in Los Angeles, CA in August 2018.

What do you say about someone who has had the same job since the 8th grade? As a student in the 1980s, John Vellinger (BSME '89) won a contest that sent chickens into space. He then utilized that experience to found a company called Techshot, which custom-builds experimental modules for the International Space Station.

Graduate students from Purdue University (USA) collaborated with students from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) to complete an international course in refrigeration and compressors. They spent one week at the Technical University of Dresden, collaborated long-distance over the summer, and then convened for one week at Purdue's Herrick Labs to present their final projects.

Guillermo Paniagua assigned them a challenge: design the infrastructure for a world of flying cars. They responded by winning the NASA Design Challenge, and presenting their ideas at NASA's Glenn Research Center.

Purdue researchers have observed a new phenomenon in fluid mechanics, involving the three-phase contact line where a solid, liquid, and gas phase meet. By observing methanol as it evaporates, they identified "tears" forming at regular intervals.

Thomas Siegmund, Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, is the chair of the IUTAM Symposium on Architectured Materials Mechanics. The symposium will take place September 17 to 19, 2018 at the Gleacher Center of the University of Chicago, Illinois.