Ryan Blaney claimed the checkered flag in Charlotte at the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race, with Jonathan Hassler (BSME '07) atop the pit box. It's Hassler's first win for the #12 team, after being named crew chief at the beginning of last season.

For Barry Turner (BSME '82), launching new companies is all in the family! Starting in his father's basement in 1988, Barry and his family have built Turner's Machining Specialties, Inc. into a major manufacturing supplier trusted by dozens of companies around the world.

Matt Kuebel (BSME '22) is a design engineer for Team Penske, who just won the Indy 500 with Josef Newgarden. Matt talks about how his experience at Purdue, particularly with the Baja SAE team, gave him the persistence, grit, and determination to succeed at the highest level of motorsports.

Not every internship showcases your work at 200 miles per hour on national television! For Purdue mechanical engineering student Zachary Nelson, an internship with IndyCar team Juncos Hollinger Racing is making his motorsports dreams come true.

When NASA’s Orion capsule reached the Moon’s orbit in November 2022, it sent back incredible images of the lunar surface. For Nat Keammerer (BSME ’94), this was more than just a neat postcard from space. It was the culmination of 10 years of work from his team at NASA, who are responsible for the communications, computers, and camera systems of the Orion capsule.

In the U.S., data centers account for approximately 2% of total electricity consumption; a large percentage of that is for cooling high-performance microchips. Purdue University researchers have received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop cooling systems for these microchips, making data centers more efficient and saving energy that will help mitigate climate change.

In Purdue ME, "GRIT" stands for: Global, Research, Industry, and Teams. Students who participate in all 4 of these during their Purdue career have "True GRIT!" Here are the students who made our first ever GRIT List.

A Purdue team led by Thomas Beechem have developed a patent-pending tool to make the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable and repeatable than traditional methods. It uses a dry-transfer process to move graphene and other ultrathin, 2D materials from the growth substrate where they are synthesized to a device substrate.

There aren't many mechanical engineers who are also Fellows of the American Heart Association. But Pavlos Vlachos isn't your typical mechanical engineer.

From Chip Ganassi to Rahal Letterman Lanigan, IndyCar teams open their doors to Boilermakers every year. Purdue ME students Zach MacNab and Jennifer Short talk about their summers on the racetrack.