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Purdue Engineering Review

·Jun 1

Drones hover over C- infrastructure

Aging infrastructure is a worldwide challenge, and the United States is no exception. The 2021 report card from the American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) gave America’s infrastructure a C- for condition and performance. This poor grade is the result of an infrastructure that continues to deteriorate with age, increased…

Drones

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Drones hover over C- infrastructure
Drones hover over C- infrastructure
Drones

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Purdue Engineering Review

·May 24

Crowds make sense of the world

Now more than ever — though perhaps every generation says that — we need tools to help us make sense of this world. Sensemaking is one of those tools, and we most often need it when our understanding of the world becomes unintelligible in some way. We need sensemaking when…

Sensemaking

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Crowds make sense of the world
Crowds make sense of the world
Sensemaking

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Purdue Engineering Review

·May 19

Space needs a hall monitor

Every unruly environment needs someone to keep tabs on all the comings and goings, like the hall monitors who are ubiquitous in schools. …

Cislunar Space

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Space needs a hall monitor
Space needs a hall monitor
Cislunar Space

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Purdue Engineering Review

·May 18

Origami in space: Shape changing is a game changer

Used to be, getting to another planet was a wild dream. Now we’re talking about living on one. That’s going to require autonomous transformable systems — shape shifters — in future space missions. These multipurpose systems will meet the needs of the rapidly-growing space domain business. They can provide more…

Origami

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Origami in space: Shape changing is a game changer
Origami in space: Shape changing is a game changer
Origami

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Apr 26

Suggested reads: ME faculty favor curiosity, creativity, clarity

Mechanical engineering (ME) has a storied history, from the first use of tools in prehistoric times through the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia, to ME’s early-modern flowering during the 18th century and Industrial Revolution in Europe, to today’s computationally-intensive advanced discipline. Five faculty members from Purdue’s School of Mechanical…

Mechanical Engineering

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Suggested reads: ME faculty favor curiosity, creativity, clarity
Suggested reads: ME faculty favor curiosity, creativity, clarity
Mechanical Engineering

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Apr 23

Harvesting water from the air above

The lack of access to fresh water is epidemic in the modern world. Currently, 3.6 billion people lack adequate access to water for at least one month out of each year — a figure projected to increase to more than 5 billion people by 2050, according to a November 2022…

Water Scarcity

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Harvesting water from the air above
Harvesting water from the air above
Water Scarcity

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Mar 24

Inside-outside temp differences power smart building IoT

Understanding materials and how they transport themselves from one state to another at the nano- and micro-scale can help researchers tailor their physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical properties for specific engineering applications. …

Smart Buildings

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Inside-outside temp differences power smart building IoT
Inside-outside temp differences power smart building IoT
Smart Buildings

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Mar 13

Global crises test humanitarian supply chains

Supply chain burst upon the scene as a suddenly familiar topic to the general public with the global COVID-19 pandemic, as illness and lockdowns stymied companies large and small in their efforts to get commodities and parts to make everyday products from toilet paper to cars. But supply chains, with…

Supply Chain

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Global crises test humanitarian supply chains
Global crises test humanitarian supply chains
Supply Chain

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Mar 9

Digital twins: An on-ramp to autonomous driving

Autonomous driving seems far away, but our vehicles already are equipped with some of its enabling technologies. …

Autonomous Driving

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Digital twins: An on-ramp to autonomous driving
Digital twins: An on-ramp to autonomous driving
Autonomous Driving

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Purdue Engineering Review

·Feb 28

Truck-portable nuclear reactors go where the power is needed

Nuclear energy is critical for a sustainable future because it is not only a reliable energy source but also one of the lowest CO2 emitters. …

Micro Reactor Technology

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Truck-portable nuclear reactors go where the power is needed
Truck-portable nuclear reactors go where the power is needed
Micro Reactor Technology

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