Purdue Electric Racing finished 3rd in the electric racing portion of Formula North, an international student design competition held in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

"If you think about a spring-mass-damper system, and then remove the damper, you will see a system that is very subject to slow rate oscillations." Yep, Scott Tingle is still an engineer! Of course, he also writes about what to do when the smoke alarm sounds in the International Space Station, and you're on the toilet! Get the inside scoop on what it's like to live in space at Scott Tingle's blog.

When making biofuel, lots of biomass must get moved from place to place. But particles don't easily flow through pipes. Luckily, Carl Wassgren's team are experts in particle science, and received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to solve the problem.

Arcot Ramachandran (MSME '47, PhD '49) passed away on May 19, 2018. He was a former director of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, frequent advisor to the government of India, and Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.

There's still a lot we don't know about the safety, performance, and life of lithium-ion batteries. Partha Mukherjee's expertise was quoted for the recent WIRED article, "Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working On It."

In his early life, Baratunde Cola (Ph.D. '08) combined his love of football with his love of science and engineering. He succeeded at both, becoming the starting fullback at Vanderbilt, and also the first graduate student to work at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center (the largest academic cleanroom in the world). Now a professor at Georgia Tech, he has harnessed his expertise of nanotechnology into a startup business: Carbice, which builds heat-dissipating materials out of carbon nanotubes for the space and semiconductor industries.

What's life *really* like on the International Space Station? Find out from Scott Tingle (MSME '88), as he writes a weekly blog about the adventures of spacewalks, going to the bathroom in space, and getting along with an international team 250 miles above the earth.

Purdue University researchers, including Euiwon Bae, have developed detection technology that allows a typical smartphone to analyze produce for foodborne pathogens such as E. coli, which has been linked to a deadly outbreak in romaine lettuce.

An open-wheel race car designed and built by a team of Purdue students drove to a 14th-place finish at Formula SAE Michigan, an intercollegiate event consisting of 120 schools from around the world. Organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the event took place at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI.

Heat produces sound waves in fluids -- but Carlo Scalo and Fabio Semperlotti have discovered that these sound waves also occur in solids. This could lead to new thermoacoustic engines, and even power future spacecraft and satellites.