Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping doctors more accurately diagnose diseases and stock analysts forecast the rise and fall of financial markets.

A Purdue-affiliated startup has developed a low-cost, low-maintenance slow sand water filter technology to better provide clean and safe drinking water to schools and communities in developing countries around the world.

Maji Safi International LLC, which means clean water in Swahili, was founded by John Maiyo, a doctoral student in Purdue's College of Engineering. Chad Jafvert, a professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering; and John Howarter, assistant professor of materials engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, are company advisers.

Hive features MSE Professor, Jeffrey Youngblood, CE Professor, Pablo Zavattieri, and Yizheng Cao, Purdue Ph.D. student as part of a group of scientists focused on cellulose nanocrystals brought together by the US Forest Service, the National Science Foundation and Purdue University.

They discovered a stronger, more flexible alternative to concrete. The group was recognized as a HIVE 100 Innovator in September because of the impact this innovation will have on housing.

Over 250 K-12 students introduced to Materials Science and Engineering as part of Space Day 2016

MSE undergrads, graduate students, and post docs teamed up in October to excite and inspire young students about science through space themed demonstrations. Highlights of the day included melting pennies on ceramic tiles to show how thermal insulation and breaking liquid nitrogen frozen racquetballs to demonstrate the glass transition.

Four Purdue Engineering professors (five professors in total at Purdue) were nominated and selected as fellows of the American Physical Society for "their exceptional contributions to the field of physics."

In grateful recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary representation of Purdue University’s Cooperative Education Program, Purdue University is proud to induct BRADLEY MAGGART into the Co-Op Hall of Fame.

Jonathan J. Wilker and his team at Purdue University are working on a new environmentally friendly method to control tenacious shellfish that attach to the hulls of ships, increasing drag and hiking fuel consumption by as much as 50 percent.

Purdue MSE graduate student Kate Reeve has been awarded the Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA) Charles Hutchins Educational Grant

Global SMT recently posted a a journal written by MSE Professor Carol Handerwerker on, "The State of Metals Recycling". Handerwerker's work with metals recovery from electronic product recycling is focused on high-volume and most valuable metals that are recoverable in an economically feasible way.