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!

Teams of Purdue mechanical engineering students have developed novel prototype projects involving autonomous robots, bacteria identification, and achilles tendon monitoring. The teams competed for the Malott Innovation Awards, given to the best senior design project of the fall 2025 semester.

The School of Mechanical Engineering has announced recipients for several graduate-level departmental fellowships and scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Many college students have a job on the side — but Drew Szuch’s job comes with trophies! As a full-time racing driver, Szuch clinched the 2025 co-championship in the Ligier Junior Formula Championship — all while taking classes from Purdue University in Indianapolis.

It's a dream of modern medicine to deliver a custom medication exactly where needed in the body. That dream has taken a step closer to reality - or in this case, a tumble forward. Purdue University researchers have successfully demonstrated a 3D-printed tumbling microrobot navigating to a specific area of the body and delivering a drug payload on command.

French impressionist painters turn "light into layers" using brushstrokes of paint. What if we could do the same thing with 3D printing? A group of Purdue University students traveled to France to unite the worlds of art and additive manufacturing.

Four Purdue Engineering students have been chosen to collaborate with NASA on world-changing research, as part of the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO).