Purdue University's College of Engineering recently celebrated its 2022 Staff Awards of Excellence. Mechanical Engineering staff dominated the ceremony, with a finalist or winner in 8 out of the 10 categories. Here's to the dedicated and hard-working staff that keep ME functioning at its best every day!

A team of Purdue mechanical engineering students have developed a glove that pairs with a smartphone's depth-sensing cameras, giving haptic feedback to help people with low vision navigate their environment. The team won the Malott Innovation Awards, given to the best senior design project of the fall 2022 semester.

College can be an overwhelming experience, especially at a large school like Purdue University. Mechanical engineering senior Isaiah Baptiste took it as a challenge: out of the hundreds of clubs, groups, and activities available, how do you choose which are best for you? He decided to engineer a solution – a software platform called Umerge – and is now in process of commercializing it.

The School of Mechanical Engineering just announced recipients for several graduate-level departmental fellowships and scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Before NASA takes the “giant leap” of sending humans back to the moon, they are first taking the “small step” of launching an uncrewed Orion capsule as part of the Artemis 1 mission. And just like the Apollo missions, the Artemis missions rely heavily on Purdue Boilermakers. Mark Baldwin (BSME ’97) has been testing and refining the Orion capsule since 2009, and also helped design the manikins who are on board Orion’s first flight.

Earth’s atmosphere holds six times more fresh water than all of its rivers combined. So is it possible to harvest that water, in areas where people have no other fresh water source? Purdue University researchers have crunched the numbers, and have the data to show which atmospheric water harvesting methods work best in different regions of the world.

Every Purdue student is on a journey, and many times that journey contains ups and downs. Faculty can often be the first people to perceive when students are going through challenges. That's why several Purdue ME faculty members have personally stepped up to donate to financial endowments designed to help students in times of need.

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has invited Dr. Veeraraghava Raju Hasti, Research Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, to participate in the German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (GAFOE) to be held in Julich, Germany, March 22-25, 2023.

When we turn on the air conditioner, we seldom think about the hundreds of other air conditioners in our neighborhood that may also be turning on simultaneously. At these peak demand times, local power grids are susceptible to brownouts and other issues. But Purdue University researchers have proposed a simple solution: air conditioners that talk to each other. By distributing the times at which electrical loads turn on – even by a few seconds – power grids can be much more robust against these issues, with no discernible impact to the end user.

Women of Purdue Mechanical Engineering will have a unique opportunity to meet other women students and faculty; attend seminars and chats specific to them; and network with successful alumnae at the first-ever Women in ME Symposium, on Thursday, November 3.