A 24-hour endurance auto race pushes everyone to the limit. So a computer simulation should be easy, right? Think again. The students of Purdue's Sim Racing Club entered multiple cars into iRacing’s virtual 24 Hours of Daytona event — enduring a full day of wheel-to-wheel contact, exhaustion, and at the checkered flag, elation.

The Society of Engineering Science is coming home! Founded at Purdue University in 1963, their annual technical meeting is returning to West Lafayette on October 11-14, 2026, and abstract submissions are now open.

A team of Purdue women earned third place in a national case competition at the Women With Drive Summit, hosted by Women in Motorsports North America. The competition challenged participants to develop strategies to increase women’s engagement in motorsports.

For mechanical engineering student Walker Mattice, swimming and engineering both run in the family! His parents are Purdue Engineers, and he followed his older sister Reagan (a chemical engineering student) to the Purdue Swim Team.

Ajay Malshe's experiment is going to space! His demonstration of in-space manufacturing takes flight next year as part of the Virgin Galactic mission "Purdue 1."

While most high school students are still figuring out what they want to do in life, Evan Zhang has already conducted award-winning research in soft robotics! His experience at a Purdue University research lab led to him presenting at academic conferences, even before graduating from high school.

When the green flag drops, Sam Johnson transforms from Purdue University student to stock car racing driver — a fierce competitor whose mechanical engineering background gives him an edge on the track.

Purdue University has the #1 mechanical engineering program in the country over the last five years, according to the scholarly analytics platform ScholarGPS.

Thomas Siegmund is an expert in mechanical fracture and fatigue. He recently teamed up with Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology to quantify the stresses of plants on a cellular level.

Parker Nordstrom (BSME '23) got his Master's in Sports Engineering at Purdue, and now makes official NFL footballs at Wilson Sporting Goods. He collaborated to turn one of his creations into a guitar to play the Monday Night Football theme!