Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Materials, Structures, Functionality

Our research in the Programmable Structures Lab focuses on the fundamental interaction between geometry, hierarchy and nonlinearity to design structural systems with intrinsic properties enabling adaptation, autonomy and environmental responsiveness.

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SMASIS 2025: Posters, Presentations and Hardware Competition

Gunes Kosterit and Jhonathan Rincon presented their work at ASME's Premier Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) organized from September 8-10 at St. Louis, Missouri. Gunes Kosterit gave a presentation titled "Metastructures With Programmable Stiffness and Shape Adaptation". Jhonathan Rincon presented his works on "Morphofunctional Co-Design for Embodying Control in Soft Multistable Robots" and "Curvature Adaptable Robotic End-Effectors". We would also like to congratulate Jhonathan for winning the first place at the student hardware competition at the conference.

 




Trailblazers in Engineering

Clark Addis and Juan Osorio were selected as Trailblazers in Engineering at the Purdue Future Faculty workshop.

 


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