Funded by NASA, Briony Horgan’s team studies lunar volcanic eruptions to piece together the history of water and other gases inside the Moon. As part of the Purdue Engineering Initiative in Cislunar Space, Horgan discusses how this data could show where the most useful resources are located to support future lunar habitats with fuel and breathable air.

Every Boiler Engineer Codes (EBEC) Python course, which introduces fundamental procedural and object-oriented programming concepts for undergraduate engineering students, set a record for non-required courses in Engineering with 1,015 students registered.

AAE’s Carolin Frueh and her team are investigating what causes spacecraft to become space junk. Their findings are revealing ways to prevent spacecraft from breaking apart into thousands of pieces of debris that pose a threat to space stations and satellites.

Most people are familiar with freeze-drying (lyophilization) of foodstuffs, like coffee, fruit and vegetables, but it's a big deal in the pharmaceutical industry too, to increase the shelf life of pharmaceutics and biologics prior to their reconstitution and administration as vaccines and antibiotics.

Traditional computers are fast, but nothing like the speed of light—at 186,000 miles per second, you can crunch numbers awfully quick. That’s a big reason why optical photonics are being used for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to greatly increase bandwidth and speed.

With Americans’ significant dependence on foreign countries for raw materials and gases, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, writes in Forbes about the urgent need to build and equip U.S. semiconductor manufacturing factories.

Miniature satellelites such as CubeSats can provide a current and potential platform for scientific experiments. In a new Medium blog, AAE’s Alexey Shashurin discusses developing a superior propulsion solution for CubeSats to help further the exploration and use of space for scientific and commercial advancement.

The USA-Mexico border has its share of issues: from immigration and security to economic and ecological uncertainty. But there are many who see tremendous opportunities about to unfold. ME’s Luciano Castillo co-chaired a unique symposium where experts discussed border issues and opportunities.

The U.S. Department of Defense is awarding $2.8 million to a collaborative group of Purdue University professors in order to develop a quantum education program at Purdue. Engineering faculty collaborators include ECE’s Mahdi Hosseini and ENE/Science Education’s Muhsin Menekse.

Using a new phase of graphene, ECE’s Zubin Jacob has developed a “topological circulator“ that may improve how information is routed and processed on a chip.