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Purdue ME sophomore John Bullock is working with the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office to use drones to document traffic accidents in just minutes, and accurately re-create the crash site in 3D.

This semester's projects included a walker designed to climb or descend stairs, kitchen cabinets with integrated stepstools, and a truck hitch that would allow multiple tractor-trailers to platoon with a hard connection, while in motion.

Nobody likes needles. That's why Chi Hwan Lee developed these silicon nanoneedles, small enough to be injected into a single cell. Worn as a flexible patch, they can deliver medicine continuously with no pain.

A collaboration between Purdue researchers and Nucor Steel in Crawfordsville, Indiana has resulted in a refined process that can adjust equipment on the fly to produce more precise thicknesses of sheet steel.

Congratulations to Song Zhang, named a 2019 fellow of the Optical Society of America! Song works with real-time 3D image capture.

Rotating detonation engines could one day make *hypersonic flight* possible (faster than Mach 5). And you better believe they're working on it at Zucrow Labs. Check out Stephen Heister quoted in this WIRED article.

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.

These Purdue ME students designed an athletic shoe insole with 3D force sensors. Now they're turning it into a business.

Attention Indian alumni and friends! Record-setting astronaut Jerry Ross (BSME '70, MSME '72) is coming to Mumbai for Purdue's International Ideas Festival on 18 January 2019!

Meet the "Clutch Crutch," a hands-free crutch that will help injured people navigate their world a bit more easily. It was developed by Purdue Mechanical Engineering students as part of a senior design project.