Purdue alums Scott Tingle and Drew Feustel spoke live from the International Space Station to Purdue's commencement on Friday, May 11. Scott bestowed an honorary doctorate on Drew, after which they floated out of sight. This is the 10th space mission to feature at least two Purdue University astronauts.

A Purdue University team has just published research that examines the relationship between the active and inactive elements of lithium-ion batteries, and how the micro- and nano-structure of their respective ingredients reflects on the performance and safety of the batteries.

ZeroUI, a wireless hand-controlled robot developed at Purdue University, has received a tech startup award at the TiE50 conference in Silicon Valley.

Congratulations to four Purdue ME graduate students who have received Graduate Research Fellowship awards from the National Science Foundation.

It's been a busy month for Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene & Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships.

Purdue ME researchers have learned how to boil water off superhydrophobic surfaces, leading to new device-cooling potential. It's featured on the cover of the journal Physical Review Letters.

Purdue Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE) won first place at the 2018 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Purdue's American Society of Mechanical Engineers team (ASME) finished third. This year's task -- to build a complex and whimsical machine to perform the simplest of tasks -- was to pour a bowl of cereal.

The 2nd annual Collegiate Drone Racing Championship flew into Purdue University on Saturday, April 14. More than 64 pilots attended the event at Lambert Fieldhouse, from 20 different universities across the country. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University dominated the event, with their Daytona Beach, Florida team finishing 1st, and their Prescott, Arizona campus finishing 3rd. University of Central Florida finished 2nd.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Purdue ME just celebrated 10 years of their partnership. More than 300 Purdue ME students have spent semesters in Shanghai in the past decade.

PathVis, the mobile pathology lab developed by Purdue University Mechanical Engineering and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is a finalist for Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards. Using a smartphone, PathVis can detect cholera in a water sample in just 30 minutes, rather than the 3 days of traditional tests.