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July 6, 2020

Truck platooning webinar now online

Purdue ME professors Greg Shaver and Neera Jain joined their industry partners to discuss the benefits of semi-autonomous truck platooning, in this public webinar.
July 1, 2020

International team designing a hovering star rover

Do you have a love for space, and a love for working globally? Join Project Polaris, an international collaboration between Purdue and colleagues in Costa Rica and France, to design a buoyancy guided hovering star rover.
June 29, 2020

New forensics tool captures footprints in 3D

Song Zhang has developed a portable 3D imaging system that quickly captures forensic evidence like footprints and tire treads, which can later be analyzed in full detail in a lab. His innovation was recently highlighted by the National Institute of Justice.
June 26, 2020

Interning at Kennedy Space Center

Alexandra Loyot, a Purdue ME student, worked as a NASA intern at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, experimenting with how to grow crops on Mars.
June 25, 2020

Purdue teams up with 3M to produce PPE

You can't spell Boilermaker without "maker." During the COVID-19 pandemic, Purdue University has manufactured thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment, thanks to a donation of raw materials from 3M.
June 24, 2020

Pursuing the future of lunar habitation

Soon we'll be returning to the Moon. But how will we live there long-term? Prof. Shirley Dyke is working with NASA to design resilient extra-terrestrial habitats.
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