In 2013, Kramer founded Purdue's Fabrication Laboratory, the "Faboratory," in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Her work in wearable technology and so-called sensory skins was featured in a 2014 article in Architect magazine, and in a recent article for the College of Engineering's Discovery research publication.

Last year she was among seven researchers selected by NASA for Early Career Faculty awards to pursue new concepts for space exploration, and more recently she was awarded an Early Career Development award from National Science Foundation, one of the most prestigious NSF honors for outstanding young researchers.

Before joining the Purdue faculty, Kramer worked from 2008 to 2012 on soft active materials for actuation, sensing and electronics, as a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. She obtained her master’s in mechanical engineering at the University of California Berkeley, and her bachelor’s in ME at Johns Hopkins University.

Visit Kramer’s lab website, The Faboratory.