Jay Gore has received the 2025 James Harry Potter Gold Medal, recognizing eminent achievement or distinguished service in the science of thermodynamics and its application in mechanical engineering. Gore, the Reilly University Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was the founding director of the Energy Center in Purdue’s former Discovery Park and formerly served as associate dean for research and entrepreneurship at Purdue. He also founded the award-winning Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program in 2002. He was cited by ASME "for the discovery of big-data-based exergy efficiencies in the optimal operation of Rankine-cycle-based power plants, and for extensive contributions to the emerging fields of big data, convolutional neural networks, machine learning, and AI in physics-based models of energy."

Kejie Zhao has received the 2025 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, honoring engineering graduates for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering between ten and twenty years after graduation. Previous Purdue recipients have included Byron Pipes, Suresh Garimella, and Arvind Raman. Zhao, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, focuses his research on mechanics and electrochemistry, especially of solid-state batteries, electrochromics, and semiconductors.

Jie Chen and Partha Mukherjee have also attained the grade of ASME Fellow. The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by ASME Members and Fellows, an ASME Member has to have 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of active corporate membership. Over 3,000 members have attained the grade of Fellow.

Jie Chen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Indianapolis, with a courtesy appointment in West Lafayette. He focuses his research on dental biomechanics with an emphasis on orthodontics. He joined IUPUI in 1990 as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering (80%) and Orthodontics (20%). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and to Professor in 2000, eventually serving as Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering for IUPUI, before joining Purdue full-time in 2024.

Partha P. Mukherjee is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, and also serves as the school’s Associate Head for Research. In his Energy and Transport Sciences Lab, he and his team investigate batteries and energy-storage systems, including electrochemistry, electro-kinetics/statics, and materials & manufacturing. He recently joined forces with UL Research Institutes to establish the Center for Advances in Resilient Energy Storage (CARES), a research hub that explores the design and operation of batteries and energy-storage systems in general, as well as their impact on safety and sustainability. He also helped to create Purdue’s student chapter of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), one of the leading student organizations for scientific outreach in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion.