The world’s whitest paint, developed by Xiulin Ruan and recognized in Guinness World Records, has been named winner of the 2023 Innovation Award for Sustainability by South by Southwest Conference & Festivals (SXSW).

Pavlos Vlachos leads a Purdue team whose recent innovations are on track to be a game-changer for cardiac surgeons and to rewrite cardiology textbooks. Working with IU School of Medicine, they are confident that they can help save babies’ lives by making echocardiograms — ultrasound image recordings of the heart — much more useful and surgery decisions far better informed.

The Purdue Student Chapter of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) organized its first-ever MoChA Poster Symposium on Modeling, Characterization & Analytics in Electrochemical Sciences & Engineering on February 9, 2023.

Lasers. Robots. Nanotech. Fluid Power. Our 94 faculty have such diverse research interests, that it's impossible to show it all in one video! That's why we've assembled an entire YouTube playlist of Purdue ME faculty lab tours.

Switching to renewable energy is an important step to reducing the effects of climate change, especially in heavy industry like steel mills. But while many choose to focus on technological advancements alone, it’s the steelworkers themselves who will ultimately make-or-break this transition away from fossil fuels. A new Purdue University research project combines both technology and sociology – studying how the steelworkers of the future will be affected by electrification.

HySonic Technologies, LLC, founded by associate professor of mechanical engineering Carlo Scalo, recently received an award from DARPA to further develop its propulsion technologies.

Longtime Purdue University administrator, faculty member and Boilermaker alumnus Arvind Raman is the new John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. Raman, currently Purdue’s executive associate dean of engineering and the Robert V. Adams Professor in Mechanical Engineering, takes office April 1.

Jong Hyun Choi, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has been selected to receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Choi will spend several months in Germany, researching DNA engineering.

With temperatures on the moon ranging from minus 410 to a scorching 250 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s an understatement to say that humans will need habitats with heat and air conditioning to survive there long term. Issam Mudawar has spent 11 years collaborating with NASA Glenn Research Center on an experiment for the International Space Station, to understand what reduced gravity does to boiling and condensation.

Fluid dynamics researchers use many techniques to study turbulent flows like ocean currents, or the swirling atmosphere of other planets. Arezoo Adrekani's team has discovered that a mathematical construct used in these fields provides valuable information about stress in complex flow geometries.