The document provides an overview of the School of Mechanical Engineering from June 2009. It discusses the people, learning, discovery, rankings, and development areas of the school. Key points include new faculty being added, undergraduate and graduate enrollment reaching all-time highs, high research expenditures and awards, strong US News rankings, and over $14 million raised for development in 2007-08.

1. School of Mechanical Engineering
State of the School
June 2009

2. 2008-2009…
•People
•Learning
•Discovery
•Rankings
•Development
School of Mechanical Engineering

3. PEOPLE
Meet new faculty…
School of Mechanical Engineering

4. Richard Buckius – Prof. and VP Res.
› BSME, MSME, PhD, UC Berkeley
› Richards Memorial Award, Potter
Gold Medal, Ralph Coats Roe
Award, Fellow - ASME
› Richard W. Kritzer Professor, 12
Teaching Awards all levels UIUC
› Chair of MIE Dept., Univ. Illinois
› 2004-2008 – Directed Engineering
Div. of National Science Foundation
School of Mechanical Engineering

5. Pablo Zavattieri – Adjunct Prof/GM
› BSNE, Univ. de Cuyo, Argentina
› PhD AAE, Purdue
› Senior Researcher, GM Vehicle
Development Lab
› 5th GM Engineer-in-residence
› Crack Propagation, Fracture,
Smart Composites,Hard
Biomaterials, Biomimetics
› Instructor - Numerical Methods
School of Mechanical Engineering

6. Anuradda Ganesh – Visiting Professor
› BS Punjab U., Ph.D. IIT Delhi
› Professor, Energy Systems
Engineering, IIT Bombay
› Laboratories Established:
– Cummins Engine Lab
– Underground Coal Gasification Lab
– Biomass Gasification Lab
– Biodiesel Lab
› Offering ABE /ME/ChE 597
Bio-Energy and Bio-fuels
School of Mechanical Engineering

7. Justin Seipel - Assistant Professor
› BSME (summa cum laude) U. Wisc-
Milwaukee, Barry M. Goldwater Scholar
› PhD Princeton, NSF Graduate Fellow
› Intelligence Comm. Postdoc. Fellow,
UC Berkeley, Dept. Integrative Biology
› Biorobotics, legged locomotion, Nat’l
Geospatial Intelligence Agency
› Graduate Teaching Fellow, McGraw
Center Teaching & Learning, Princeton
School of Mechanical Engineering

8. Ashlie Martini
› BSME(cum laude) and PhD ME Northwestern
› 5 years with Deloitte Consulting
› Tribology and fluid-surface interactions at the
micro/nano scale; Fluid Power NSF ERC
› President NWU ME Grad Student Association
› Best poster award Intl Tribology Conf. 2006
› Chair NSF Virtual Tribology Symposium, Grad
rep NSF/ASME Workshop Future of Tribology
› Nationally ranked judo since 2002, US National
Champion 2005, US National Team in Bulgaria,
Holland, and Czech Rep.
School of Mechanical Engineering

9. Fu Zhao
› BS Environmental Engrg, Tsinghua U, Beijing;
4X Academic Excellence Award
› MS, Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua U.
› State Key Lab for Coal Combustion 3 years
› MS EE, and Ph.D. ME – UM
– Caddell Fellowship
› Research Fellow, Civil/Env. Engrg, UM
› Environmentally Benign Design and Mfg.; Life
Cycle Assessment; Sustainable Energy
› Vice Chair, Life Cycle Engineering Technical
Committee, Div. Mfg. Engineering, ASME
School of Mechanical Engineering

10. Jong Hyun Choi
› BS/MS Yonsei University
(H&MT in Gas Turbines)
› US Army Commendation Medal
› PhD UC Berkeley (Biomed, ME, Env.
Health Sciences, Energy Tech LBL),
Johnson Memorial Fellow
› Post-doc UIUC and MIT
› Lab in Bindley Bioscience Center
› Nanoparticle synthesis for energy
conversion, sensing, therapeutics
School of Mechanical Engineering

11. ME Faculty Size
65
Total is Headcount
# of ME faculty (average fall and spring)
■ Joint Appointments
■ Partial Retirements 60
60 ■ External Admin Appts
■ FTE 57.5
58
56 56 56
55 55
55 54 54 54
52 52
51.5
51 51 51
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12. PEOPLE
Honors
Awards
Appointments
School of Mechanical Engineering

13. Jay Gore
› Director – Energy Center at
Discovery Park
› Key role in energy strategic
plan / faculty search
› 3 Professorships in energy
area (2 ME, 1 CoE)
School of Mechanical Engineering

14. Eckhard Groll
› Director – CoE Office of
Professional Practice, 2008
› Will administer GEARE,
staff allocated
› Just Inducted into Purdue’s
Book of Great Teachers
School of Mechanical Engineering

15. Jayathi Murthy
› Robert V. Adams
Professor in ME (Inaugural)
› Micromechanical Systems /
MEMS
› DOE/
NNSA
› 3rd largest research grant in
history of Purdue ($21.2M)
School of Mechanical Engineering

16. LEARNING
Watch us grow…
School of Mechanical Engineering

17. ME UG Student Enrollment
1000
900
ME undergraduate student headcount
800
700 High Since 1970's 936
Total
600
31 = 3.3%
500 Underrep.
Minority
400
300 120 = 12.8%
Women
200
100 School of Mechanical Engineering
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F99 F00 F01 F02 F03 F04 F05 F06 F07 F08

18. ME BSME Placement May 2008 (N=122)
School of Mechanical Engineering

19. ME Grad Student Enrollment
450
401
400 Total
ME graduate student headcount
350
300
250
8 = 2.2%
200 Underrep.
Minority
150
46 = 11.7%
Women
100
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F03 F04 F05 F06 F07 F08

20. PhD Degrees Awarded by Purdue ME WL
45
Aug-May
40 Includes best Ph.D.
dissertation of Purdue
PhD Degrees Awarded (ME)
35
30
25
20
15
10
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21. Mechanical Engineering Patents
50
45
40
Disclosures
35
30 Provisional Apps**
25
US Regular and
20 Continuation Apps
15 US Issued Patents
10
5
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

22. Learning and the Global Engineer
There are:
›Regional
Engineers
and
›Global
Engineers
But Regional Engineers
School of Mechanical Engineering
are Extinct

23. Automotive Marketplace
Brand
USA - Chevy
Market
Brazil
Design
Germany-Opel
Production
Australia
School of Mechanical Engineering
Source: Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech, 2008

24. Boeing 787 Dreamliner
School of Mechanical Engineering

25. Boeing 787 Dreamliner
School of Mechanical Engineering
[1] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/boeing/787/787primer.asp
Graphic by David Badders, Seattle Post Intelligencer, used with permission

26. 26
Solar Oven Tech.
Workshop
Morogoro TZ
18-19 Sep 2007
School of Mechanical Engineering

27. NUR-Purdue
Education and Community Service
Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture
January 12, 2009

28. ME Student Global Experiences
70 Source: International Programs at Purdue website,
Study Abroad: Sudent Reports, Major Stats, 15 Apr 2008.
60 7X growth rate
4X participation
50
#ME students in SA
Of US Engineering
40
64
30
20 39
34 36
21
10
16
School of Mechanical Engineering
7 6
3 4
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98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08

29. Inaugural Malott Innovation Award
School of Mechanical Engineering

30. Fall 2008 Innovation Awards

31. Fall 2008 Innovation Awards

32. RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
School of Mechanical Engineering

33. Bioengineering
(Anil K. Bajaj; J. Stuart Bolton; George T. C. Chiu; Steven Frankel; Jay
Gore;E. Daniel Hirleman; Sangtae Kim; Klod Kokini; Erick A. Nauman;
William J. Peine; Arvind Raman; Karthik Ramani; Masaru P. Rao; Cagri
Savran; Thomas siegmund; Carl Wassgren; Steven T. Wereley)

34. Rapid Identification of Bacteria
Laser
Scatter image
Petri dish
with
colonies
Computer
CCD chip
School of Mechanical Engineering

35. Heat Transfer
(Timothy S. Fisher; Suresh Garimella; Issam Mudawar; Jayathi Murthy; Xiulin Raun;
Xianfan Xu)

36. Mechanics & Vibrations
(Douglas E. Adams; Anil K. Bajaj; J. Stuart Bolton; James D. Jones; Klod Kokini;
Charles M. Krousgrill; Eric A. Nauman; Arvind Raman; Jeffrey Rhoads)
School of Mechanical Engineering

37. Nanotechnology
(Timothy S. Fisher; Suresh Garimella; Marisol Koslowski; Jayathi Murthy; Arvind
Raman; Masaru P. Rao; Jeffrey Rhoads; Xiulin Raun; Cagri A. Savran; Ganesh
Subbarayan; Steven T. Wereley; Xianfan Xu)

38. Traumatic Brain Injury Research

39. Other Medical Research
› Spinal implant development
› Remodeling of patellar & Achilles’ tendons
› Adult stem cell-based therapies for bone defects
› Breast cancer identification and treatment
› Surgical robotics with haptic interface
› Rapid identification of food-borne pathogens
School of Mechanical Engineering

40. Energy and Environment
› 40% of our energy is consumed in residential
and commercial buildings
› 28% of our energy is consumed in
transportation
› Political issues abound
› Purdue ME is addressing all
School of Mechanical Engineering

41. 42
Herrick Laboratories Isometric
School of Mechanical Engineering

42. Smart Engine Research
Closed-loop, “fuel-flexible” combustion control for clean, efficient
use of alternative fuels: biodiesel, ethanol, natural gas, H2, coal-to-
liquid, etc.
Dynamics
› Alternative fuels can provide significant benefits: Systems
– Increased domestic energy security
and control
(physics-based
– Reduced emissions
modeling & control)
– Lower costs (more choices, better price)
› Requirement: estimate & accommodate (i.e. control for) different combustion behavior for
variable:
– Blend ratios (e.g., E10 vs. E85, etc.)
Combustion
(thermodynamics,
– Types (e.g., biodiesel vs. diesel, etc.)
fluid mechanics,
– Feedstocks (e.g., soy- vs. jatropa-based biodiesel, etc.)
kinetics)
“Fuel-Flexible” Engine Actuators Outputs
Inputs
Control decision making Common rail Torque
desired injection timing, fuel injection Internal
Speed Efficiency
pulses, duration combustion
EGR valve process Exhaust gas
Desired
desired charge flow composition
Torque variable
desired EGR fraction geometry turbo etc.
Fuel blend ratio, type,
& feedstock estimation

43. Other Energy Research
› Fluid Power Hybrid
› Solar & Wind
› Hydrogen Fuel Cells
› Jet Propulsion Systems
› Nuclear
› Bioenergy
› Social, Economic, and Political Aspects of Energy Use and
Policy (SEPAE) School of Mechanical Engineering

44. Discovery
•Large Program Successes
•Best Paper/Dissertation Awards
•All time high Expenditures ($19.5M)
•All-time high Awards ($21.1M)
•Innovation, Technology Transfer,
and Economic Development
School of Mechanical Engineering

45. RANKINGS
School of Mechanical Engineering

46. 47
US News Rankings - 2008
95
96
97
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
19
19
19
19
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
1
ME Undergraduate Program
2
ME Graduate Program
U.S. News and World Report ranking
3
4 #1 ME program in peer
5 rating improvement
6 (top 8 for all disciplines)
7
8
School of Mechanical Engineering
9
10

47. Aerospace & Defense Recruiters Ranking
4,000
3,500
Aero/Defense Job reqs 2008
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
School of Mechanical Engineering
0
ME Systems EE CompE Aero IE MSE
Aviation Week and Space Technology Aug 18/25 2008

48. DEVELOPMENT
School of Mechanical Engineering

49. Development 2007-08
$14 M
2007-08
$12 M
fund raising production
$10 M
$8 M
$6 M
$4 M
$2 M
School of Mechanical Engineering
$0 M
ME CFS ECE Dean AG MGT TECH SCI L.
ARTS

50. PU ME Endowed Professorships
20
number of ME named endowed professorships
Deferred
18 Committed
Fully Funded 17 is 24.3% of 70 faculty
17 is 24.3% of 70 faculty
16 Filled in ME strategic plan
in ME strategic plan
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
School of Mechanical Engineering
0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

51. ME Facilities Campaign
• Roger Gatewood Wing (2007)- $34.5 M
…Funding Completed
• Herrick Labs Phase I (2008) - $11 M
$12.5M proposal for Phase II
$13M Phase III
Zucrow Laboratories are next…
School of Mechanical Engineering

52. Roger B. Gatewood Wing – 2010
Purdue’s 1st LEED Certified Building
School of Mechanical Engineering

53. Construction of Gatewood Wing 54
Underway!!!
School of Mechanical Engineering

54. Construction of Gatewood Wing 55
Underway!!!
School of Mechanical Engineering

55. Roger B. Gatewood Wing of ME 56
Purdue’s First LEED Building
School of Mechanical Engineering

56. 58
Gatewood Wing Timeline
› Phase I – Summer/Fall 2008
– Utility Work Finished
– Raze Student Services Annex – September 29, 2008
› Phase II – 2009
– Bid Ad 2/17; Pre-bid Meet 3/2; Bid Open 3/19
– Board Meeting April 10, 2009
– Start Construction April 20, 2009
› Occupancy – Summer/Fall 2011
School of Mechanical Engineering

57. 60
Additional Funding Goals
› Undergraduate Scholarship Endowments - $50,000,000
– 50 @ $1,000,000 each
› Graduate Fellowship Endowments - $50,000,000
– 50 @ $1,000,000 each
› Outstanding Thesis Awards - $100,000
› Endow Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships - $4,000,000
– 90 SURF students @ $45,000 each
› Named Professorships - $2,500,000
› Renovate ME Building - $11,000,000
› Zucrow Laboratories Expansion & Renovation - $15,000,00
School of Mechanical Engineering

58. 61
Gifts that will Fundamentally
Transform the School of ME
› “Name” Global Engineering Experience Endowment - $30,000,000
– Named Professorship + Experience for 80% of students
› “Name” ME Honors Program Endowment - $15,000,000
– 30 “Name” Scholars each year
› “Name” Mechanical Engineering Research Endowment -
$10,000,000
› “Name” Center for Sustainable Buildings – Bd. App. Reqd.
› “Name” Mechanical Engineering Building – Bd. App. Reqd.
› “Name” School of Mechanical Engineering – Bd. App. Reqd.

59. 62
Our Great Successes…
• High Student Demand for Our Programs
• Quality and Diversity of Faculty
• PhD Program becoming very strong
• Recognition for GEARE / Global Programs
• $142M raised for ME in Campaign for Purdue
• Gatewood Wing of ME
• 100% funding for Herrick Labs Phase I
School of Mechanical Engineering

60. CONCLUSION
2008-2009 has been
another great year!
School of Mechanical Engineering