Purdue Formula SAE is a student design team that designs and builds a race car every year, competing against hundreds of other universities from around the world. Purdue has placed 2nd place in the Knowledge Events portion of the competition, where the team presents information about the car's design, business plan, and cost.

You've seen the Hoberman sphere: a toy with multiple joints and arms that expands into a sphere when you pull on it. Purdue University engineers have successfully created the first 2D nanoscale version of this structure using synthetic DNA molecules, furthering the potential of "DNA origami" as a manufacturing tool.

Purdue University has won 1st place in the Marine Energy Collegiate Competition, a contest sponsored by the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

Hypersonics, the study of vehicles that can travel faster than Mach 5, is the next uncharted frontier of aerospace. Thanks to a grant from the US Navy, a new Purdue Engineering collaboration is developing propulsion technologies that bring that vision closer to reality.

Associate Professor Tahira Reid Smith leads a lab focused on human-centered design. Over her career, she's gone outside the "traditional engineering box" and integrated compassion for the users of products and services into the design process - what she and colleagues refer to as "compassionate design." She has also leveraged her insights as a Black woman in mechanical engineering in her work. Together, these considerations led to the development of a compassionate design framework that helps engineers think critically about their design decisions and, in her case, an investigation of how heat from flat-irons can damage curly hair.

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.

In the Apple TV+ series "For All Mankind," both the US and Russia have built bases on the Moon. But how realistic can that be? The official Apple TV+ podcast talked to Shirley Dyke, who researches resilient extraterrestrial habitats at Purdue.

In just 24 hours on Purdue Day of Giving, nearly 300 donors collaborated to donate $6 million to the School of Mechanical Engineering! Thank you so much!

The School of Mechanical Engineering is honoring deserving sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduate students who have demonstrated academic excellence, exemplified personal integrity, and exercised involvement in the community of Purdue University.

In a "normal" semester at Purdue, engineering students in the ME 375 class Measurement & Control Systems II would be preparing robot racecars to compete against each other. But with the restrictions of the COVID pandemic, both students and faculty have had to get creative to showcase their mastery of systems and controls.