News - Ray W. Herrick Laboratories - Purdue University

We are pleased to announce that Eckhard Groll will become the new head of the School of Mechanical Engineering. He will take over for Anil Bajaj on July 1.

"Spidey Sense" is real! It's called "mechanosensing," and animals have it naturally. Now Andres Arrieta is giving the same capability to autonomous vehicles.

Squishy micro-robots are on the move! Prof. David Cappelleri's latest soft-bodied mobile microbots have made the cover of the journal Micromachines

Professor Brandon Boor receives NSF CAREER Award for Indoor Air Quality Research

The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute, headed by Shirley Dyke, recently received $15 million from NASA to research how to keep long-term settlements on other planets safe from hazards such as meteoroids, sandstorms, and radiation. The RETH team plans to build a simulated habitat at Herrick Labs.

A Purdue team has taken advantage of the "boom" of 3D printing to create a 3D-printed "boom"... energetic materials that can safely be deposited using any commercial 3D printer.

Jeff Rhoads and his team, which includes postdoctoral research associate Nikhil Bajaj and graduate students Allison Murray and Zachary Siefker, are developing new sensors to specifically identify volatile organic compounds polluting indoor environments

Profs. Neera Jain and Tahira Reid's research on cooperation or trust between human and machine featured in Axios Newsletter

Check out this article from SAE International, about Purdue ME students Mrunal Joshi and Aswin Ramesh. They publicly presented their research on diesel engines, thanks to support from Eaton and Cummins Inc.

It may be winter outside, but at Herrick Labs -- Purdue University's testbed for high performance buildings -- they're running the air conditioners at full blast.