Audrey Powers, the company’s vice president of mission & flight operations, will be one of four passengers on board New Shepard NS-18, scheduled to launch Oct. 13.

In the wrong hands, the computer models and data analytics – based on artificial intelligence – that ensure smooth operation of today’s electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and power plants could be turned against themselves. NE’s Hany Abdel-Khalik has come up with a powerful response: to make the computer models that run these cyberphysical systems both self-aware and self-healing.

ME’s/ABE’s Andrea Vacca works with fluid power, which is often thought of as mature technology but is now gaining fresh life from new engineering trends utilizing it to boost power output and energy efficiency.

Imagine the day when any tissue or organ can be repaired or the replacements personalized to the patient. That’s one of the goals of work being done by BME’s David Umulis and a team of scientists at the Emergent Mechanisms in Biology of Robustness, Integration and Organization (EMBRIO) Institute. They’re using artificial intelligence in biology to see how cells defend themselves and/or repair their damage.

“Fluid power is everywhere,” said Andrea Vacca, Purdue’s Maha Fluid Power Faculty Chair, professor of mechanical engineering and agricultural and biological engineering, and director of the Maha Fluid Power Research Center, the largest academic hydraulics lab in the country. Funded by a $3.2 million Department of Energy project to optimize the hydraulic systems that connect tractors and implements, Vacca’s team is focusing on a specific combo of tractor and planter.

What makes pancreatic cancer so deadly is its covert and quick spread. Now, a “time machine” built by ME’s Bumsoo Han has shown a way to reverse the course of cancer before it spreads throughout the pancreas.

Through the Engineering Undergraduate Research Office (EURO), 18 Purdue Engineering undergraduates participated in first-time research opportunities during the 2020-2021 academic year. EURO’s goal with the first-time researcher program is to broaden participation, increase access and exposure to research and create a pipeline of researchers.

In Forbes, Dean Mung Chiang writes about innovation in higher ed and in engineering research. In this blog, he says that as 5G is deployed in the next several years, engineers and policymakers must start thinking about a 6G in the decade ahead.

Every fall semester, Purdue Engineering Alumni Weekend has been a chance to catch up and see longtime friends. However, this one was very special, as it was the first occasion in at least 18 months that many Boilermakers were able to get together and visit one another in person on campus.

EEE senior Madison Hodges was recently selected as a 2021 Udall scholar. In addition to receiving a $7,000 scholarship from the Udall Foundation, Udall scholars are invited to a five-day national conference to network with leaders in their fields of study.