Thomas Siegmund is an expert in mechanical fracture and fatigue. He recently teamed up with @PurdueBPP to quantify the stresses of plants on a cellular level: https://t.co/u1Uv3wXY9k

Runchen “Ray” Liang, a @PurdueME student, is transforming his passion for motorsports into a hands-on educational experience: https://t.co/7JQdfvpzRR

Cole Yarrington (MSME ’07, PhD ’11) studied solid propellants with Steve Son at Zucrow Labs. He is now Senior Manager of Thermal, Fluid, and Aero Sciences at @SandiaLabs: https://t.co/iBN6fJnmF4

Mahesh Panchagnula (MSME ’94, PhD ’98) is the Chair Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering at @iitmadras, where he has been involved in business incubation, alumni relations, fundraising, and even podcasting: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Tarak Mehta (BSME ’89) served as President of several different business units at ABB, before joining the private equity firm Partners Group in Switzerland: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

As Senior Vice President of Media Operations at @NBCUniversal, Megan Mauck (BSME ’06) is responsible for delivering a few things you might have heard of, like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and Saturday Night Live: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Neal Herring got his PhD from Purdue in 2007, where he worked at Zucrow Labs in high mach propulsion. He now serves as Senior Director of the Aerothermal Systems Department at RTX Technology Research Center: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Trevor Hedman (PhD ’12) studied solid propellants with Steve Son at Zucrow Labs. He is now the Chief Technology Officer for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head division, the DOD’s largest energetics facility employing more than 1,900 people: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Steve Downer (BSME ’96) currently serves as Vice President of Consumer Electronics at @amazon, overseeing worldwide retail business services and consumer electronics: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Hemanth Dhavaleswarapu got his master’s and PhD at the Cooling Technologies Research Center with Suresh Garimella. He then moved on to @AMD, where he works with advanced packaging — stacking multiple microchips vertically to increase processing speed: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

Ever used a DVR? Thank James Denney (BSME ’87), who spent 15 years working at @TiVo, before moving on to oversee strategy at @NBCUniversal: https://t.co/Oh4SX55H7z

During COVID, Steve Cittadine (BSME ’83) provided stipends for students to help get them through the crisis. Steve just received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineer alumni award: https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

As the year ends, we'd like to highlight our most outstanding @PurdueME alumni of 2025. Theodore Bergman (MSME '81, PhD '85) is now the lead author of the legendary Incropera and DeWitt textbook "Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer:" https://t.co/iBN6fJnUuC

The @WilsonFootball Factory ➡️ Purdue’s guitar lab ➡️ ESPN. 🏈🎸 Go behind the scenes as #Boilermakers build the custom #MondayNightFootball guitar that alum Noah Scott played during Monday’s pregame coverage. https://t.co/NdVKPPy4z6

Student-created toys were on display during the annual Toy Fair in the @PurdueME building. The fair puts a bow on ME444, where students learn how to create prototypes using 3D printing and CAD. The class culminates in a team project to design and build new toys — many of which

🏈ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? Parker Nordstrom (BSME '23) engineers official @NFL footballs at Wilson Sporting Goods. Last night one of his creations got turned into a guitar to play the Monday Night Football theme! https://t.co/9NSnkRF1IG

🚀 Meet the Teams | @purdueairacing From robotics and AI to computer vision and vehicle dynamics, Purdue AI Racing brings its researches from the lab to real-world autonomous racing. Thrilling. Collaborative. Competitive 🔥 @PurdueEngineers #IAC #PurdueAIRacing

🤖Autonomous robots 🦠Bacteria identification 🦶Achilles tendon monitoring These are just a few products created in 16 weeks by our graduating @PurdueME seniors as part of their ME463 Capstone Design class: https://t.co/Y5Dq2okeXc

.@PurdueME has announced recipients for graduate-level fellowships and scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year: Mina Lee Debanjali Chatterjee Sheng Huang Li-Fan Wu Ford Lynch Sewon Park Raghav Poddar Kasandra Rea-Padilla Gurman Singh Full story: https://t.co/2symehWFHG

🏆🏆🏆 Many college students have a job on the side, but Drew Szuch’s job comes with trophies! As a full-time racing driver, Szuch clinched the 2025 @LigierJFC co-championship, all while taking classes from @LifeAtPurdue in Indianapolis: https://t.co/U8le8JCXHs