Aaed Musa was like any other mechanical engineering student at Purdue University, using 3D printers to build projects... except his projects were robot dogs, CD slingshooters, infinitely spinning tops, and most importantly, a YouTube audience of millions.

Teams of Purdue mechanical engineering students have developed novel prototype projects involving resin printers, jump ropes, and organ donation. The teams competed for the Malott Innovation Awards, given to the best senior design project of the spring 2026 semester.

Something new is launching in Indianapolis — literally! Purdue Space Program, the student group who have been launching rockets in West Lafayette for more than 25 years, have established a chapter in Indianapolis. It took many “small steps” for these intrepid urban rocketeers to reach their “giant leap.”

Congratulations to Arvind Raman and Arezoo Ardekani, elected as Fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A 24-hour endurance auto race pushes everyone to the limit. So a computer simulation should be easy, right? Think again. The students of Purdue's Sim Racing Club entered multiple cars into iRacing’s virtual 24 Hours of Daytona event — enduring a full day of wheel-to-wheel contact, exhaustion, and at the checkered flag, elation.

The Society of Engineering Science is coming home! Founded at Purdue University in 1963, their annual technical meeting is returning to West Lafayette on October 11-14, 2026, and abstract submissions are now open.

A team of Purdue women earned third place in a national case competition at the Women With Drive Summit, hosted by Women in Motorsports North America. The competition challenged participants to develop strategies to increase women’s engagement in motorsports.

For mechanical engineering student Walker Mattice, swimming and engineering both run in the family! His parents are Purdue Engineers, and he followed his older sister Reagan (a chemical engineering student) to the Purdue Swim Team.

Ajay Malshe's experiment is going to space! His demonstration of in-space manufacturing takes flight next year as part of the Virgin Galactic mission "Purdue 1."

While most high school students are still figuring out what they want to do in life, Evan Zhang has already conducted award-winning research in soft robotics! His experience at a Purdue University research lab led to him presenting at academic conferences, even before graduating from high school.