Srinivasan “Chandy” Chandrasekar, PhD, a Purdue professor of industrial engineering, has a short video on YouTube about Prince Rupert’s drops that got 65 million views. The drops — small glass structures that look like tadpoles — were a gift to King Charles II of England in 1660 from a German…

Wildfires do not just wreak immediate havoc and destruction — they also have a toxic aftermath, especially affecting drinking water systems. In the Western United States, recent conflagrations have reaffirmed the urgent need to issue post-fire drinking water warnings and to find and remove contaminants in utility and building plumbing…

University ramps up semiconductor workforce education to fill industry need It’s been a busy fall at Purdue in the semiconductor department, from the expansion of its workforce program to a career fair that drew a record-breaking crowd and a visit by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of…

In August and September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks all visited Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, writes Purdue President-elect Mung Chiang in a recent Forbes article. He notes that a recurrent theme of these trips was…

Data is flowing everywhere, 24/7, from tens of billions of connected devices along the Internet of Things (IoT). But it’s just loose bits of information — albeit with tremendous potential for insight — until it is properly analyzed. We are now seeing a huge impact of data analysis on the…

Alexandra Boltasseva is the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, working in the areas of optics, quantum photonics, machine learning, and nanotechnology. In April 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of three people selected in the field of engineering. Purdue…

It’s hard to pick up garbage when the trash keeps moving in orbits subject to hard-to-calculate gravitational pulls from the Earth and Moon. Carolin Frueh, associate professor in Purdue Engineering’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is putting her considerable mathematical prowess to the test of solving dilemmas that a sanitation…

Plastics are ubiquitous in many facets of our lives, and the plastics industry is the third-largest manufacturing sector in the United States. But as plastics production develops rapidly, the long-term environmental challenges are globally recognized. Chemically resistant plastic products have extremely long lifetimes before completely decomposing — a single-use coffee…

R. Byron Pipes, NAE, is the John Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering and executive director of the Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center (CMSC) at Purdue. Purdue Engineering Review sat down with him for a talk about his life in engineering. Why are you so keen on composite materials? What is…