Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his team have developed conjugated ligands that improve the charge transfer, power conversion capability and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells.

Tiwei Wei, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, use a direct liquid jet impingement cooling on top of the 3D die stack combined with system partitioning technologies for semiconductors.

Saurabh Bagchi is professor in electrical and computer engineering.

David Warsinger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, proposed and modeled the membrane-based system in 2021 as a means to dehumidify the air in building HVAC systems. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has awarded the team a $2.4 million grant to demonstrate a similar system for industrial drying.

Stylianos Chatzidakis, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering, has research focused on designing and manufacturing passive 3D-printed sensors for nuclear reactor environments.

New smart soft contact lens technology developed by a multidisciplinary team of engineers and health care researchers at Purdue University and Indiana University School of Optometry looks to gather important intraocular pressure measurements for 24-hour cycles as a way to detect glaucoma.

Alumnus Bill Champ (BSME ’90) found an original 1915 steam engine used in Purdue’s laboratories and is now restoring it.

As technical director of LASER PULSE, Betty Bugusu oversees the program’s research portfolio, which means she oversees the whole process of project acquisition, all the way up to implementation and close-out.

Purdue's Co-op program, run by the Office of Professional Practice (OPP) housed in the College of Engineering, started in 1954 with the first formal Co-op in mechanical engineering.

The Vilas Pol Energy Research (ViPER) group of the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University now holds the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM title for the “lowest temperature to charge a lithium-ion battery.”