Kike Garzon-Sabogal is a PhD candidate in the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, which trains the next generation of engineers in the best processes and materials for sustainable structures.

Xuanyu Sheng is a fifth-year PhD student in the School of Materials Engineering who wants to push the envelope around microstructure to develop new alloys with enhanced properties that can provide industry with a freer, more flexible hand in designing higher performing products.

Surabhi Bhadauria is a PhD candidate working in the Space Information Dynamics Lab of Carolin Frueh, the Harold DeGroff Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Zachary Beickman is a third-year PhD student at the Liu Research Group at the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, where he's working to innovate novel biomaterials that can advance regenerative medicine.

Classroom education and lab research are core, but student organizations outside the lecture halls and labs play an equally vital role in student life, helping students develop top-notch technical skills and providing opportunities for innovation and leadership.

Yash Garje, a second-year PhD student in the School of Engineering Education (ENE), wants to use advanced technology to inspire today’s youth to take up the mantle in this vital arena.

United States Army Lieutenant Madeline Lenkart — a master’s student in the Purdue Engineering School of Industrial Engineering and a Purdue Military Institute Research Fellow — is working on creating a circular space economy.

Solving a Rubik's Cube is a challenge for most people. For a team of students from Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it became an opportunity to redefine the limits of speed, precision and automation and officially make history.

A new business buzzword is supply chain resilience. Hazel He is tackling this challenge head-on as a PhD student in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.

In the span of four days, Sam Budagher lost everything. He lost his Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship. He lost his position on the wrestling team. And he lost his maternal grandmother. That could have been the end of his college years at Purdue University. And it almost was. After all, he was only in his first year.