The faculty, staff, and alumni of Purdue ME gathered online to send their happiest well-wishes to this year's graduating class!

Prof. Arezoo Ardekani has received the 2020 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology: "For highly innovative theoretical and computational research on the motion of particles and swimming organisms in viscoelastic fluids and flow of complex fluids through porous media, which are opening up new approaches to environmental remediation, energy production, and the design of biomedical devices."

Justin Weibel's team has pioneered a method of color-measuring at microscale using the sessile droplet technique, leading to new uses in biomedicine, agriculture, manufacturing, and water quality.

Subramanian Chidambaram has received the Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students from Purdue University's Graduate School. Subramanian is a third-year Ph.D. student working at the C Design Lab under Karthik Ramani.

Graduating ME senior Glynn Gallaway received a Fulbright grant to conduct research overseas. When international travel resumes, she'll be heading to Germany to research tissue engineering.

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) are in the spotlight now more than ever before. We need to make buildings smarter, so they autonomously adjust to the needs of their occupants. This is happening right now at Herrick Labs, the largest academic HVAC lab in the world.

Jeff Rhoads received the 2020 Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, one of only 5 such awards across the entire university.

Prof. Carlo Scalo, a fluid mechanics researcher specializing in hypersonics, has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as part of their Young Investigator Program (YIP) to perform computational modeling of fully turbulent hypersonic boundary layers.

Though all public gatherings have been canceled, our seniors have been working hard on their capstone projects. The most innovative final projects have received the Malott Innovation Awards.

In the wake of the SARS epidemic in 2003, Prof. Yan Chen worked with Boeing on how to recirculate air in their airplanes to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. Did it work? Find out in this deep dive from the Washington Post.