News - Ray W. Herrick Laboratories - Purdue University

The 23rd International Compressor Engineering Conference, the 16th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference and the 4th International High Performance Buildings Conference will be held July 11-14, 2016, on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Carrie Hall (Ph.D. 2012) was recently awarded the NSF Early Career Award, one of the most prestigious NSF honors for outstanding young researchers.

Researchers are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual microbots operating within groups -- an advance aimed at using the tiny machines in manufacturing and medicine. The work is being overseen by David Cappelleri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue.

Professor J. Stuart Bolton was recently given the 2015 Ruth and Joel Spira award by the School of Mechanical Engineering.

More than a dozen companies joined Purdue in November to launch the Center for High Performance Buildings.

Purdue was well-represented at the annual International Noise Control Conference, InterNoise 2015, in San Francisco.

Ray W. Herrick Laboratories faculty and staff joined in celebration for the unveiling of a new sculpture located on the west side of the new Herrick building.

Rui Cao received the first place award in the student paper competition at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ 2015 Noise and Vibration Conference.

Harshad Inamdar, a MSME student working with Dr. Eckhard Groll, has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Purdue University is working with Whirlpool Corporation on a three-year project to convert a home near campus to the most efficient domicile possible -- a "Net-zero" structure.