For Kevin G. McIver, a second-year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, his hard work keeps paying off. Just last month, he was named a recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to underrepresented minority graduate students to help increase diversity in research areas employing computational modeling and simulation. McIver's current research involves modeling and simulation of traumatic brain injuries.

The Internet of Things benefits everyone -- even farmers! That's why Purdue is part of a new $26 million Engineering Research Center to develop advanced agricultural technologies to address food, energy and water security challenges. David Cappelleri is a co-principal investigator.

Adranos Inc. began at Purdue's Zucrow Labs, researching solid rocket propellants under Prof. Steve Son. Now they've secured more than $1.1 million in contracts from the U.S. Army to adapt their propulsion system into potential hypersonic vehicles, traveling faster than Mach 4.

Which is better for the environment, paper or plastic? The answer isn't clear-cut, once you factor in the source materials, manufacturing, usage, and end-of-life processing. That's called "life cycle engineering," and Fu Zhao discusses it in this podcast about industrial sustainability.

In the field of autonomous vehicles, Purdue University researchers are making advancements every day in engineering, manufacturing, data science, and more. Thanks to a grant from leading mobility supplier DENSO, Purdue will soon be bringing these advancements into undergraduate classrooms.

Systems like facial recognition have more than just technology barriers to overcome -- they also must address sociological and psychological issues in order to become useful. Neera Jain explains in her latest Forbes article.

Omnivis, a lab-in-a-smartphone created by Katie Clayton (PhD '17) to quickly diagnose cholera in Haiti, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to develop the same technology for a rapid COVID-19 test.

David Warsinger and Guillermo Paniagua have received grants from the Shah Family Global Innovation Lab to study desalination in Kenya, and water metering devices in India, respectively. The Shah Family Global Innovation Lab was founded by Manu Shah (MSME '68) to advance engineering solutions for the developing world.

As the Perseverance rover makes its way to Mars, it contains something never seen before on the red planet: a spacesuit. Amy Ross (BSME '94, MSME '96), who designs spacesuits for NASA, put samples of spacesuit materials on the rover to test them in the harsh conditions of Mars.

Accurately diagnosing the spread of cancer often involves painful and invasive biopsy procedures. The use of a "liquid biopsy," which involves a simple blood draw, has been shown in a five-year clinical trial to accurately detect and monitor certain kinds of breast cancer. The device to perform these "liquid biopsies" was created by Purdue ME professor Cagri Savran.