Hye-ran Moon is a Ph.D. candidate under Bumsoo Han, researching engineered microenvironments for cancer research and immune system based on biotransport phenomenon. Rising Stars Asia brings together young female professionals in engineering disciplines from around the world.

Congratulations to Erik Braun, who received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), covering three years of doctoral studies for researchers in disciplines of military importance. Erik studies laser diagnostics for combustion under Terrence Meyer at Zucrow Labs, currently focusing on Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS).

Congratulations to Veeraraghava Raju Hasti, who has received the Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Hasti studies with professor Jay Gore at Zucrow Labs.

Several Purdue MEs have recently been given honors by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Yung Shin has developed a manufacturing method for making microchannels (for cooling electronic devices like computer processors) that are superhydrophobic (they easily repel water).

File this under "why hasn't anyone ever thought of that?" An in-built step for lofted dorm room beds, to help people get up to the top bunk where there is no ladder. Now in the process of being patented, it was created in ME263 Sophomore Design class by Elvin Garayev, Andrew Bowman, Dalton Garrett and William Yount.

More astronauts have bachelor's degrees from Purdue than any other school. We're thrilled to welcome them back to campus on October 12 for the Astronaut Reunion, including two Purdue ME grads, Jerry Ross and Scott Tingle.

US News just ranked Purdue ME the #8 undergraduate program in the country.

More than 350 Purdue ME students have spent the semester in Shanghai in the last decade. Tyler Kobil hiked the famous Avatar cloud mountains (and bonded with his Chinese classmates in the weight room). Listen to his China story, and then make the LEAP yourself!

Several Herrick Labs researchers were honored at NoiseCon 2019, the annual meeting of the Institute of Noise Control Engineers (INCE-USA).