The Ray W. Herrick Laboratories have new leadership. Jeff Rhoads, who has held the position of Director of Herrick Labs since 2019, has stepped down to pursue another opportunity on campus. Effective Monday, October 24, Greg Shaver will become the new Director of Herrick Labs.

The new Women in ME group is off to a rousing start, offering students the chance to network with successful ME alumnae, as well as interact at an upcoming Women in ME symposium in November.

We have a unique opportunity available for a Professor of Engineering Practice in Motorsports. We are looking for exceptional candidates in motorsports, engineering design, or hands-on/experiential learning.

Chi Hwan Lee has a vision: to develop specialized smart soft contact lenses that can accurately measure intraocular pressure in a person's eye, which could be the latest answer to stopping glaucoma-related blindness.

The world’s whitest paint – seen in this year’s edition of Guinness World Records and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” – keeps surfaces so cool that it could reduce the need for air conditioning. Now the Purdue University researchers who created the paint have developed a new formulation that is thinner and lighter, ideal for radiating heat away from cars, trains and airplanes.

The School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the general areas of 1) fluid mechanics and 2) dynamics and vibrations. Within these general areas some specific interests include, but are not limited to: multiphase flows, computational fluid dynamics, biomedical flows, structural acoustics and dynamics, acoustics and noise control, nonlinear dynamics, engineered materials and structures.

At 99 years old, Major General Eric Schwenker (BSME 1947) still rode his motorcycle every day and volunteered as a handyman. This legendary Purdue alumnus shared his experiences in World War II, his work establishing a refrigerator empire, and his 75 years as a professional engineer.

Tian Li and Fu Zhao are part of a team which has received a $958,000 grant from Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a transformational “living” wood building material, with the strength of steel, self-healing capabilities, and combined carbon-sequestering benefits from wood and microbes.

Senior Daniel Harrington has been named a Purdue Engineering Fellow, recognizing his accomplishments, contributions, and potential. He will receive $20,000 upon graduation.

Ganesh Subbarayan has been recognized by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) with its 2022 Technical Excellence Award. He was cited as being the "top researcher for the comprehensiveness and rigor of his approach. He has combined the depth of Fracture & Continuum Mechanics with innovative computational and experimental techniques to describe solder material and stress evolution under different processing and reliability conditions and in the presence of multiple flaws. He co-leads the CHIRP Center to achieve significantly enhanced functionality by heterogeneous packaging of advanced microchips."