Since its founding 143 years ago, Purdue’s School of Mechanical Engineering has taken a giant leap. What started with one student in 1882 is now the largest mechanical engineering school in the nation, enrolling over 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It has been ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years, with both the graduate and undergraduate programs currently ranked seventh in the nation.
For Summer Residential & Dining Services staff members, the end of the spring semester marks the start of some of the busiest months of the year, when around 20 full-time staff members and 100 student employees come together to welcome the thousands of conference and camp attendees who use Purdue’s residential and dining facilities between late May and early August.
The Data Mine Corporate Partners Symposium gives students the chance to showcase over 90 applied projects with 68 industry corporate partners through an interactive poster session. This year’s event is scheduled for 4-6 p.m. April 30 at the France A. Córdova Recreational Center. Everyone in the Purdue community is invited to attend and interact with the student project teams and their corporate partners.
Aeronautical and astronautical engineering alums Dayle and Claire Alexander are helping Blue Origin usher in the next phase of space exploration. The senior propulsion engineers on the company’s New Glenn rocket team were both members of the Purdue “All-American” Marching Band and worked as research assistants in the Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories as Boilermaker students.
