Next time you drive your car or truck, consider this: Your vehicle probably knows more about the road conditions you face than the agency that built and maintains the roads.

Life teems on earth in vast variety and across a wide geographic distribution, just as it did eons ago with ancient plants and organisms. Fossil fuel energy sources formed from the decay of that primeval life, and just as it was spread unevenly across the planet then, the natural availability of these fossil resources is limited to certain regions of the world today as well. This has led to an economic order where most countries — constituting a major fraction of the human population — rely on oil, coal and natural gas that must be imported over long distances.

When Tesla failed to hit weekly production targets in the first quarter of 2018, chief executive Elon Musk blamed it on “excessive automation.” The robots were slowing things down and “underrated” humans could do better.

Most Purdue Online graduate engineering students complete their courses from the comfort of their homes. Purdue Online graduate student and professional engineer, Jessica Fleming, took a radically different approach and added a trip to the Arctic Circle focused on sustainability to her online graduate program.

Imagine trying to quickly turn a damp piece of plywood into a liquid and squeezing it through several small openings. That’s essentially the challenge facing biorefineries trying to turn corn waste and related materials into ethanol fuel.

Roughly 15% of premature births in the U.S. happen due to a pregnancy complication caused by high blood pressure, called preeclampsia. While sometimes symptoms dissipate after the mother gives birth, preeclampsia can lead to permanent damage to the kidneys or death.

A Purdue University student with a dual major in chemistry and chemical engineering has been selected a 2019 Astronaut Scholar.

Eleven graduate and post-doctoral students from across Purdue’s College of Engineering will attend Future Faculty Workshops at four different U.S. institutions by the end of the fall 2019 semester.

Purdue University and its LASER PULSE consortium partners recently held a Research for Development (4RD) workshop in Bogota, Colombia, engaging 112 participants.