Why choose Purdue ME? Here are Allison's top 5 reasons:
🏛️ Top 10 engineering school
🌎 Huge alumni network
💰 Job placement rate
🤝 Team-based learning
👋🏽 Friendly community
Read more at her Women in Engineering post.

In the "Internet of Things," the hardest part may be training the "things." Karthik Ramani's C Design Lab has developed a smartphone-based augmented reality app enabling average users to easily and visually program robots to perform real-world tasks.

Two Purdue ME alums have just been named academic vice presidents at major institutions; Larry Howell at BYU, and Rick Stamper at Rose-Hulman.

HIGH-LEVEL PHYSICS NEWS: Ivan Christov has been published in Physical Review Letters discussing "kink-antikink" interactions, where certain basic "topological defects" interact with each other. This provides valuable insights for material science, cosmology, and string theories.

Breanna Cappuccilli spent her spring in Texas, monitoring football players for risk of concussion. She received the Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship this year, and chose to work with Eric Nauman's Human Injury Research and Regenerative Technologies Lab (HIRRT) focusing on biomechanics.

Salvador Rojas worked his way up from being a janitor in California, to being a summer intern in engineering, to now being a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue's Programmable Structures Lab, under Prof. Andres Arrieta. Salvador wrote about his experience for the Los Angeles Times.

Valeria Andreoli, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue, has received the 2019 Howse, Ruffles, and Parker Award from Rolls-Royce, for the Best Doctorate Paper.

Check out this amazing story about Bob Ade (BSME '56), who has hand-made more than 15,000 kaleidoscopes!

Lithium ion batteries are everywhere: your phone, your computer, your car. Yet we still don't know a lot about how they work! Kejie Zhao and his team have been able to image these batteries in unprecedented detail, from the millimeter level all the way down to individual atoms.

In 1967, Honeywell supplied Purdue's Zucrow Labs the latest state-of-the-art data acquisition systems to study rockets and jet engines. 50 years later, the names are the same, but the technology has advanced exponentially! Now Purdue researchers can instantly analyze millions of data points per second, at the world's largest academic propulsion lab.