More success for Purdue's student auto racing teams! Purdue Formula SAE scored a 6th place finish at the most recent in-person race event at Michigan International Speedway. Combined with their previous 2nd place in the Design presentation, the team finished a combined 3rd overall – the best result in their 29-year history!

Eckhard Groll and Guang Lin have projects supported by the Trask Innovation Fund from the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization: Groll for an oil-sensing system in refrigeration compressors, and Lin for a 4D cardiac ultrasound imaging system.

When Monique McClain joins Purdue ME as an assistant professor next month, she'll already be a Lafayette homeowner... something she couldn't imagine in her hometown of San Diego. Find out why the Greater Lafayette area is just right for her.

It's been a wild year for Xiulin Ruan, who created the world's whitest paint. On the latest episode of Purdue's official podcast, he talks about how his invention might combat global warming.

At Purdue Engineering, you can get involved in research, even in your very first year. FYE students Shantanu Sinha and Nathan Stonitsch joined Prof. Davide Ziviani in his project of cooling a lunar habitat simulator, as part of the Resilient Extra Terrestrial Habitat (RETH) Institute at Herrick Labs.

The science of locating sound has come a long way... from tin cans, to holographic microphone arrays. In this special publication from the National Academy of Engineering, Purdue acoustics experts Yangfan Liu, Stuart Bolton, and Patricia Davies discuss the history and future of acoustic source localization.

Issam Mudawar, the Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Allan Kraus Thermal Management Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for 35 years of pioneering accomplishments and international leadership in high-heat flux thermal management of electronics and its impact on the cooling of computers, data centers, hybrid and all-electric vehicles, defense electronics and space vehicles.

Frank Lee is probably the only refrigeration technician in history to perform his job in zero gravity! After 25 years of service as an engineering technician (on the ground) at Purdue's Herrick Labs, Frank helped to test a new zero-gravity refrigerator prototype for NASA by embarking on a series of parabolic test flights.

Surgeons may soon be able to localize critical regions in tissues and organs during a surgical operation, thanks to a soft, thin, stretchable biosensor that can be 3D printed, developed by Chi Hwan Lee.

A key lesson from the COVID pandemic is the inherent risk of spreading disease through indoor air recirculation. One way to mitigate that risk is to incorporate outdoor air; however, dehumidifying that air requires huge amounts of energy. Purdue University engineers have proposed a system that combines new membrane technology with the latest HVAC systems, to make 100% outdoor air systems economically feasible – especially in warm, humid climates.