Electrifying all homes and vehicles in the US could overwhelm the grid unless key upgrades are made. @kevinjkircher.com's team have developed strategies that could cut 2/3 of the potential costs of reinforcing the nation's distribution grid to handle this demand: www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
🍕PIZZAPEDIA: Jim Mumford (BSME '08) used his engineering expertise to research the best ways to make pizza, and published his results as a cookbook: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Cummins CEO Jennifer Rumsey (BSME '96) is our special guest at Visionary Voices, a discussion hosted by Purdue University on September 11 at 7:00 pm: engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs...
⚡FLOW WITH THE CURRENT: Purdue Electric Racing loves the high-pitched whine of electric motors powered by a 600-volt battery. This year, they enjoyed another unique sound — victory. They completed every event in their competition for the first time in history: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Did you know that lubricant drops can hover above a bearing, due to the aerodynamic Leidenfrost effect? ASME highlighted Purdue's groundbreaking work in this field: www.asme.org/topics-resou...
First 7:30 Thermo class in the books! Welcome back Boilers!
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2025-2026 faculty for the largest mechanical engineering school in the nation: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/fa...
As a NASCAR crew chief for Trackhouse Racing, Matt "Squid" Swiderski has blazed his own trail, thanks to an Online Master's degree from Purdue that he finished along the way: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
BOILERS IN DETROIT: We talked to Purdue ME interns and alumni at Ford, GM, and Daimler Truck to discover why they chose to work in the automotive industry: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Congratulations to Andres Arrieta, named the Doug and Cathy Field Rising Star Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Chris Goldenstein, named the Avrum and Joyce Gray Rising Star Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
VR WIND TUNNEL: Have you ever walked inside an active wind tunnel? Prof. Jun Chen collaborated on a VR platform enabling students to clearly visualize the principles of fluid mechanics: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Congratulations to Guillermo Paniagua and Carl Wassgren, receiving named professorships! Guillermo Paniagua is now the Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Carl Wassgren is the Charles E. and Louise W. Springer Professor of Mechanical Engineering: www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
GO BABY GO! A group of Purdue Engineers in Indianapolis designed a custom power-wheels car for a girl with a rare medical disorder: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
WE'RE NUMBER ONE: More engineers graduate from Purdue than from any other school: engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs...
STAFF STUDY ABROAD: For the first time, Purdue ME has offered staff members the same Study Abroad opportunities as students and faculty. This May, staff members traveled to Argentina, France, Italy, Germany, and South Korea: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
🏁NOW AVAILABLE: a Professional Master's in Motorsports Engineering will elevate your career to the next level! Get your Master's in just a year or two, in the Racing Capital of the World: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/Graduate/...
Congratulations to our fearless leader, Eckhard Groll, who is now officially a United States citizen!
Congratulations to Jie Cai, receiving an NSF CAREER award for "an altruistic game theoretic framework to characterize environmental responsiveness of residential electricity consumption" engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs...
Congratulations to Nicole Key, recipient of the 2025 AIAA Ground Testing Award, for "outstanding contributions to the rigorous testing of advanced high-speed compressor and fan technologies, with application of state-of-the-art diagnostic methods." aiaa.org/awards/groun...
As a kid, Akul Ramasubban raced go-karts and built his own vehicles. Now he's interning at Ford, working on hybrid engines: engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs...
BEST SUMMER EVER: For the first time in history, all 3 of Purdue's SAE racing teams finished top 10 in their respective competitions: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Check out this awesome profile of Fu Zhao, who is working to find solutions for global environmental problems: engineering.purdue.edu/SEE/AboutUs/...
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW: Zucrow Labs students have developed a completely transparent rocket engine, enabling them to see the entire combustion process for the first time: engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/spotligh...
Water heaters aren't that smart, and that's a problem for our fragile power grid. Purdue University researchers have developed a simple system that can account for existing water heaters in the energy management of a city: www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
David Warsinger is known for teaching complex topics in unconventional ways — like demonstrating heat transfer by making solar s'mores. He was recently honored by the College of Engineering with an Early Career Teaching award; hear what his colleagues had to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRm...
Pratt & Whitney, one of the world’s largest jet engine manufacturers, has collaborated with Purdue University to establish a Turbomachinery Aeromechanics Center of Excellence — advancing the research of turbines, compressors, and other propulsion technologies: engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
MECHANICAL FRUSTRATION: It sounds like engineers becoming annoyed — but in some cases, “frustration” can be a productive force. Jong Hyun Choi has demonstrated nanoscale origami of DNA strands that deform in a specific way, thanks to “mechanical frustration:" engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2025...
Congrats to our ME Athletes who made Academic All-Big Ten for spring 2025, maintaining a full-time course load and a 3.0 GPA:
Track and Field: Meredith Bloss, Grant Gogel, Sofia Muñoz, Jason Polydoris, Katherine Rumsey, Logan Sandlin
Golf: Alison Hildebrand
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Congratulations to Pritam Ghoshal, honored with the Best Paper Award at the Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON). Pritam's paper, “Exploiting Bistability and Viscoelasticity in Reservoir Computing,” was co-authored with his advisors, James Gibert and Anil Bajaj.
Congratulations to Abd Alrhman Bani Issa, receiving the Top Student Paper Award (Doctoral Level) at the 2025 ASHRAE Annual Conference in Phoenix. His paper was entitled "Navigating Long-Term Use of Refrigerant Blends in Unitary Air-Source Heat Pumps for Colder Climates."
