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.

Luciano Castillo is leading an effort to build and commercialize a robot that autonomously disinfects indoor spaces. Thanks to support from Intel, the project brings together students from 6 universities, and even high school students.

The whitest paint in the world is now even whiter. Xiulin Ruan has developed a paint that rejects 98.1% of solar radiation. Coating buildings with this paint may one day cool them enough to reduce the need for air conditioning.

Jill Hruby (BSME '81) has been nominated by President Biden for Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Previously she served at Sandia National Laboratories for 34 years, the first woman to lead a national security lab.

Standard refrigerators use vapor compression to cool down your food. But in space, there is no gravity to keep vapors and liquids secure. Purdue researchers have worked with NASA, Air Squared, and Whirlpool to create a prototype fridge that works upside-down, meaning it can potentially function in zero gravity.

Check out this feature about Purdue athletes joining forces to increase the presence of adaptive sports on campus. The team includes Purdue ME senior Ryan Lawrence.

Congratulations are in order for many of our ME faculty members! Purdue's Board of Trustees has just approved a slate of faculty promotions, and here are the ones in our ME family.

A surge of migrants. An unstable power grid. A changing climate. Even the hostile takeover of a dam. The US-Mexico border is currently facing a number of daunting challenges. But according to research just published by Purdue University engineers, there is one thing that could solve all these problems: water.