Puerto Rico has suffered through a major hurricane and a series of earthquakes, crumbling their infrastructure. Prof. Luciano Castillo says now is the time for Puerto Ricans to take advantage of their abundant solar, wind, and water resources for renewable energy.

Robert J. (Bob) Schoenhals, who taught at Purdue Mechanical Engineering for 45 years, has passed away.

When you press the dimpled circles on a fountain drink lid, they become either convex or concave. This demonstrates bistability: materials or structures that have two stable states. Prof. Andres Arrieta has demonstrated a patterned sheet of these domes that forms an energy-storing skin, strong enough to perform mechanical tasks, and even programmable to store and process data like a mechanical computer.

Prof. Bumsoo Han works hand-in-hand with researchers at the Purdue Center for Cancer Research to investigate new diagnostics and treatments for cancer. This collaboration between medical research and engineering makes Purdue unique.

Monitoring agricultural crop conditions is still a manual, labor-intensive, and costly endeavor. Purdue hopes to bring engineering and technology innovations to solve these problems, with its new Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag). This new NSF-funded Engineering Research Center is directed by David Cappelleri.

Just in time for holiday shopping, Purdue's team store has officially released a full line of Mechanical Engineering shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more!

Members of the Purdue Engineering family have come together to declare how important it is to support, mentor, teach, and become Black engineers.

Are you ready to investigate flow separation at one of the largest experimental turbine facilities in the world? Apply for this postdoc fellowship with Guillermo Paniagua at Zucrow Labs. Deadline is December 4!

New autonomous sensor technology may help businesses monitor refrigeration and heating systems in real time much faster and easier than current options. Researchers at Herrick Labs developed the sensor to monitor the oil circulation ratio in real time for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

Dig deeper into Purdue ME research by subscribing to the Purdue Engineering podcast! November's episodes feature Eric Nauman discussing concussions in football; Nina Mahmoudian talking about autonomous underwater vehicles; and Greg Shaver, discussing platooning in tractor-trailers.