Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering and Shanghai Jiao Tong University are partnering to offer a new program, GEARE Junior Year, beginning Spring 2009. SJTU, with an ME program ranked first in China, has just completed a new engineering campus.

ME researchers led by Arvind Raman are the first to precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls.