Throughout the fall 2020 semester, Purdue ME faculty spoke at a number of prestigious conferences and events. You can now watch the videos from those presentations.

These Purdue ME students didn't get the chance to showcase their talents on the field this fall, but they did excel in the classroom. Alyssa Cwidak (Soccer), Curt Eckstein (Cross Country), and Teagan Jones (Soccer) have been named to the Fall 2020 Academic All-Big Ten Team.

Scott Tingle (MSME '88) has been named to NASA's Artemis Team, who are preparing to become the next humans to set foot on the Moon! Tingle spent 168 days on the International Space Station in 2018.

An enlarged prostate may actually stop tumor growth. This was discovered thanks to the mathematical modeling of Prof. Hector Gomez.

White Castle recently introduced a robot, Flippy, to help its understaffed restaurants during the pandemic. But automation has its limits, as Prof. Neera Jain writes in Forbes. Experiential learning at Purdue proves just how important human experience is.

Habitats on the moon will need to be resilient against meteorites, radiation, and seismic activity. The Wall Street Journal recently visited Herrick Labs and talked to Prof. Shirley Dyke about her new lunar habitat testbed.

In the midst of a challenging semester (in which many students never even met face-to-face), Purdue ME seniors have created amazing new prototype products. The most innovative have received the Malott Innovation Awards.

Puerto Rico has suffered through a major hurricane and a series of earthquakes, crumbling their infrastructure. Prof. Luciano Castillo says now is the time for Puerto Ricans to take advantage of their abundant solar, wind, and water resources for renewable energy.

When you press the dimpled circles on a fountain drink lid, they become either convex or concave. This demonstrates bistability: materials or structures that have two stable states. Prof. Andres Arrieta has demonstrated a patterned sheet of these domes that forms an energy-storing skin, strong enough to perform mechanical tasks, and even programmable to store and process data like a mechanical computer.

Robert J. (Bob) Schoenhals, who taught at Purdue Mechanical Engineering for 45 years, has passed away.