Research

Driving the field of energetic materials forward through our ideas, our students and our partnerships.

Purdue's large, interdisciplinary team of hypersonic research experts brings great depth and breadth of experience in basic and applied research for feasibility determination and design of strong, next-generation systems.

The FlexLab in Discovery Park is designed to adapt to the creative and innovative needs of engineering researchers. Its wet lab, dry lab and open spaces enable teams to collaborate on interdisciplinary research and discovery. FLEX Lab primarily supports synthesis, formulation and chemical analysis research.

Founded in 1948, the Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories is the largest academic propulsion lab in the world. Its 24-acre campus hosts world-class research facilities in combustion, turbines and compressors, energetic materials, hypersonics, aerodynamics, fluid mechanics and more.

The Ray W. Herrick Laboratories is an interdisciplinary research laboratory that supports world-class Mechanical Engineering research for students, faculty and industry. The laboratories have a rich history of graduate education and engineering research emphasizing technology transfer to government and industry.

Civil engineering meets applied research at the renowned Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory. This is where the Infrastructure Research and Innovative Solutions team focuses on delivering effective and efficient solutions for next- generation foundations.

Home to the Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC), a single location for industry partners to work on materials and manufacturing innovations and provide access to testing capabilities.

An interdisciplinary research center that provides infrastructure for more than 150 faculty members and their research groups. The research center includes the Dynamic Analysis of Micro-and Nanosystems Laboratory, a world-class facility focused on sensor development and small-scale materials characterization.

Affiliated with the broader Purdue Initiative for Physical AI (IPAI) and Autonomous and Connected Systems Initiative (ACSI), the mission of ICON is to integrate diverse expertise in classical theories in control, optimization and networks with recent advances in AI, machine learning and data science.

Advances the knowledge and practice of information assurance, security and privacy through discovery, education and engagement.

Research in the ACME2 lab combines knowledge of materials science, solid mechanics, and advanced manufacturing to solve complex problems in the mechanical behavior and processing of aerospace structural materials.

Consists of 20-plus faculty members with active research and instructional programs in Nanoelectronics, Energy Conversion, Nanomaterials, Micro and Nanoelectromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS), Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Computational Nanotechnology, and Nanophotonics.

PQSEI connects researchers with stakeholders across industry, government and academia. Its strength is the cross-campus collaboration of quantum theorists and engineers who discover quantum phenomena and develop quantum systems of revolutionary technologies.

Convenes researchers and policy influencers to catalyze research that influences data-driven policymaking and assessment.