Jan Shumate (BSME '93) has been honored with the Women in Manufacturing STEP Ahead Award, recognizing excellence and leadership by women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Production. Shumate is the Director of Plant Engineering for Eastman Chemical Company, a $9 billion company with 15,000 employees around the world.

A world first has been invented at Purdue University, and it’s a toy that will soon be hitting the market. Purdue professor and inventor of Ziro, Karthik Ramani, created a hand-controlled robot that is a toy meant for children to help stimulate the minds of the up and coming generation.

Purdue University highlighted the expansion of facilities and research at its Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories, the nation's largest university propulsion laboratory, during a Monday (Feb. 22) celebration in the Kurz Atrium of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering.

As the new movie "Concussion" comes to theaters, Purdue University researchers who have worked with forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu - played by actor Will Smith - can talk about the science that drives the film's storyline.

Professor David Cappelleri and colleagues are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual microrobots operating within groups, an advance aimed at using the tiny machines in areas including manufacturing and medicine.

A technology of Karthik Ramani, the Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is creating strong buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show and is being called one of the "best gadgets of CES 2016."