Preschoolers place native plants in the ground as part of a collaborative class project between EEE495 Urban Water Projects and Bauer Family Resource Center.
YouTube Video: EEE495 Collaboration Project
Photo: Trevor Mahlmann

Toys were set out for children to test at the West Lafayette Public Library during testing for the Purdue INSPIRE’s annual Engineering Gift Guide.
Photo: Teresa Walker

Purdue Space Day saw record attendance of 700+ school children grades 3-8 at their annual outreach event.
Read the full story on Purdue Space Day 2017.
YouTube Video: Highlights from Purdue Space Day 2017

Lyles School of Civil Engineering graduate student April Wang measures recently-delivered composite plate shear walls in the Bowen Laboratory.
Photo: Drew Stone

Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering in September.
Photo: Marshall Farthing

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering students and staff during their two-week study abroad trip around Australia in July 2017.
Study Abroad for Chemical Engineering Students

Purdue University students celebrate the opening of the $18.5 million Bechtel Innovation Design Center, where student, staff and faculty innovators can create prototypes and other creative designs.
Read more about BIDC’s ‘magnet space’ for collaborative creativity and prototyping.
Photo: Rebecca Wilcox

Purdue University engineering students collaborated with a student team from Universitat Politecnica de Valencia in Spain to build Hyperloop pods, for a competition hosted by SpaceX.
YouTube Video: Purdue Hyperloop Collaboration to Revolutionize Transportation
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Jan-Anders Mansson, Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering and Chemical Engineeringand director of the Composites Manufacturing and Simulation Center at the Indiana Manufacturing Institute.
Read the full profile on Jan-Anders Mansson.
Photo: John Underwood

Purdue Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers hope their new device “risk-on-a-chip” will help identify breast cancer risk factors.
Read the full story on the risk-on-a-chip technology.
Photo: Babak Ziaie

bit.ly/prince-ruperts-drops Prince Rupert’s drops, glass structures resembling tadpoles, can withstand the blows of a hammer and yet burst into powdery dust at the slightest touch of their threadlike tails. Now researchers understand why.
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YouTube Video: Prince Rupert’s Drops: 400 Year Old Mystery Revealed
Photo: Trevor Mahlmann

This new paper-based diagnostic device detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses, and the assays change color to indicate specific test results.
Read the full story on SPEDs.
Photo: Aniket Pal