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December 21, 2020

Enjoy these ME faculty lectures

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.
December 11, 2020

Student athletes named to Academic All-Big Ten Team

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.
December 10, 2020

Scott Tingle named to team of Artemis astronauts

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.
December 8, 2020

Sometimes automation can't beat innovation

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.
December 4, 2020

Malott Innovation Awards showcase student prototypes

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.
December 1, 2020

Oddly satisfying metamaterials

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.
December 1, 2020

Robert Schoenhals (1933-2020)

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