Additive manufacturing has changed the landscape of many fields, including nanotechnology. To 3D-print nanoscale objects, researchers often use a laser-based process called multi-photon polymerization. But it's a relatively slow process, and difficult to ensure accuracy. Purdue University researchers have developed an active machine learning framework that leads to more accurate prints more quickly, with the use of much less training data than typically used in a machine learning process.

Babak Anasori, the Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, kicked off 2025 by receiving three prestigious awards.

In motorsports, you often meet people who have “been there and done that.” Chris Andrews (BSIDE ’92) is one of those people. As a lifelong race engineer, and current technical lead of Vasser Sullivan’s IMSA sports car team, Chris has had an influence on stock cars, open wheel racing, and even Purdue’s own pioneering motorsports teams.

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) held its annual AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando on January 6-10, 2025. Several Purdue University researchers were honored during the event.

Sevinch Pasilova, a junior studying mechanical engineering at Purdue in Indianapolis, conducted research on aerogels and had the opportunity to send her findings to NASA.

Which is more difficult: slaloming down a ski slope at 50 miles an hour, or designing a rocket to travel 1,000 miles an hour? William Flaherty, a Purdue mechanical engineering student, has done both!

Ajay Malshe has been elected as a 2025 International Director for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

The School of Mechanical Engineering has announced recipients for several graduate-level departmental fellowships and scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Purdue engineers are famous for launching into space — but only one Boilermaker has built spaceships for Captain Marvel!

David Altenau (BSME 1988) is the founder and chairman of the Pitch Black Company, a visual effects powerhouse whose empire stretches from Star Wars to Barbie to Indiana Jones.

It’s not often you can work beside people who literally wrote the book in their chosen field. In 2024, we bid a fond farewell to seven of the most impactful faculty members from the School of Mechanical Engineering, who have all chosen to retire. Stuart Bolton, James Braun, Patricia Davies, Klod Kokini, Peter Meckl, Gordon Pennock, and Steven Wereley leave behind an incredible legacy — and a combined 251 years of experience at Purdue.