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The School of Mechanical Engineering (ME) is the oldest academic unit at Purdue University College of Engineering. The School of ME offers both an undergraduate B.S. degree as well as M.S. and PhD graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering. The school enrolls over 2,000 undergraduates (sophomores through seniors) and over 1,000 graduate students. U.S. News & World Report ranks Purdue's Mechanical Engineering 6th at the Undergraduate level [America's Best Colleges 2024] and 9th at the Graduate level [America's Best Graduate Schools 2024]. The online M.S. program in Mechanical Engineering is ranked No. 1 in the nation [America's Best Online Graduate Programs].




History


As a Land-grant university, engineering was apart of Purdue since its founding. The School of Mechanical Engineering was established in 1882 as the first of Purdue's schools of engineering with head being Lt. William Hamilton of the United States Army.




= Mechanical Engineering Buildings

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During its first few years, the Mechanical Engineering school grew drastically, so the first of many mechanical engineering buildings was erected in 1885, originally known as the Mechanical Lab. The Mechanical lab was stocked with around $3000 of modern machinery and tools, but it quickly began to fail the needs of the students. In 1890 President James H. Smart requested $60,000 from the state to build a new mechanical engineering building. He only receive $12,000 which was not nearly enough to build what he had planned. On October 21, 1892 a celebration erupted in University Hall when Smart announced that the university received a generous donation. $35,000 from Amos Heavilon was secured to erect the long desired Mechanical Engineering Building. After seeing the support the school was getting, the state eventually pitched in $50,000.

The Mechanical Engineering Building, often referred to as the first of three Heavilon Halls, was dedicated and accepted by governor Claude Matthews on January 19, 1894. This was greatly celebrated, as the Purdue Exponent proclaimed: "The new Engineering Laboratories, which we have needed for so long, are at last completed." Four days later, a gas explosion started a fire in boiler room, and a thousand people watched as new building was destroyed. President Smart later wrote: Heavilon Hall had been beautiful four days before: it was infinitely more beautiful now, but the crowds this time were speechless with grief and in a few hours only a pitiful mass of blackened ruins remained to mark the spot where Purdue’s greatest pride once stood.

The morning after the fire, President Smart addressed the Purdue Community. He stated: “I have shed all of my tears for our loss last night. We are looking this morning to the future, not the past... I tell you young men, that tower shall go up one brick higher.” The University asked for help to fund the new building and its equipment and 52 companies responded. The new Heavilon Hall, officially the Mechanical Engineering Building at the time, was reopened in 1895. A clock with bells was placed in the tower. After 35 years of use the building was officially renamed Heavilon Hall, and mechanical engineering moved out. The clock tower was torn down in 1956.

In 1930 a new mechanical engineering building was erected, with a new additions added shortly after in 1933, 1941,1948, and 1950.

In 2009 the Roger B. Gatewood wing was added to the Mechanical Engineering Building. It added over 41,000 square feet increasing the size of the building by 55%. It is Purdue's first LEED building. This wing is equipped with flexible classroom space, student commons, computer labs, student learning labs, faculty offices, conference rooms, and research labs, all centered around the Dr. Milton B. and Betty Ruth Hollander Atrium. The atrium regularly hosts industry days, and shows off student projects, such as toys designed by students for ME 444-Computer Aided Design & Prototyping. The clock from Heavilon Hall was placed over the atrium on the second floor.




= School Heads

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Only non-interim heads are listed below.

Eckhard A. Groll, 2019–
Anil K. Bajaj, 2011–2019
E. Daniel Hirleman, 1999-2010
Frank P. Incropera, 1989-1998
Winfred M. Phillips, 1980-1988
Arthur H. Lefebvre, 1976-1980
William B. Cottingham, 1971–1975
Peter W. McFadden, 1966–1971
Richard J. Grosh, 1962–1966
Paul Chenea, 1959–1962
Harry L. Solberg, 1941–1959
Gilbert Amos "G.A." Young, 1912–1941
Llewellyn Ludy, 1900–1912
Charles Benjamin, 1898–1900
John J. Flather, 1892–1898
Lt. William Creighton, U.S.N., 1887–1892
Lt. Albert Stahl, U.S.N., 1883–1887
Lt. William Hamilton, U.S.A., 1882–1883




Student organizations


ASME – Purdue Student Chapter
Purdue Mechanical engineering Ambassadors (PMEA)
Formula SAE – Purdue Formula Team
Baja SAE – Purdue Baja Team
Purdue Electric Racing (PER) – PER Team
Purdue Solar Racing – Purdue Team
Pi Tau Sigma – Beta Chapter
Women in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue (WiME)
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) – Mother Chapter
Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Tau Beta Pi – National Engineering Honor Society
Purdue Engineering Student Council (PESC)




Notable alumni


Maurice Zucrow – Aerospace engineer (1899–1975)
Ray Ewry – American track and field athlete
Gus Grissom – American astronaut (1926–1967)
Jerry L. Ross – NASA astronaut and engineer (born 1948)
Donald E. Williams – American test pilot, astronaut and engineer (1942–2016)
Wayne Hale – American NASA engineer (born 1954)
Scott D. Tingle – American astronaut
Mohamed M. Atalla – Egyptian engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur (1924 - 2009)
Richard Leroy Walters – Homeless philanthropist (1931–2007)
John H. Hager – American businessman and politician (1936–2020)
Robert Altenkirch – American academic
Allen Alley – American businessman and politician
Moira Gunn – American podcasterPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Jill Hruby – American civil servant
Patrick J. Loehrer – American oncologist and cancer center director
Roger Linquist – American businessman (1938–2015)Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Brent W. Webb – Vice President of Brigham Young UniversityPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Ali Argon – American engineer
John Armstrong (model railroader) – Mechanical engineer, inventor, editor, author (1920-2004)Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Melvin J. Glimcher – American pioneer in the development of artificial limbs
Arcot Ramachandran – Indian scientist (1923–2018)
Gerald D. Hines – American businessman (1925–2020)
James J. Shuttleworth – American businessman (1937 – 2003)
John R. Horne – American businessman (born 1939)
Bala S. Manian – Indian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur
Don R. Berlin – American aerospace engineerPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Bob Bowdon – American broadcast journalist
Donald C. Burnham – American business executive (1915–2005)
Robert D. Cess – American academic (1933–2022)
Bob Charles (politician) – Australian politician
Baratunde A. Cola – American nanotechnologist
Carl W. Condit – American historian
Clarence Cory – American engineerPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Reid Ewing (planner) – American urban planner
Chris Gabehart – NASCAR crew chief
Robert McFarland Gates – American mechanical and consulting engineer (1883-1962)
Richard J. Grosh – American academic
Edwin D. Harrison – American academic administrator (1916-2001)Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Dennis Hong – American roboticist
John R. Horne – American businessman (born 1939)
Larry Howell – American engineerPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Anthony Jacobi – American scientist and engineer
J. Tom Lendrum – American politician
Carter B. Magruder – United States Army general (1900–1988)
Glen W. Martin – United States Air Force general
Gary Milhollin – Professor Emeritus, University of WisconsinPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Irving Jacob Reuter – American businessman (1885–1972)
Peter Riegel – American research engineer
David Edward Ross – Indian businessmanPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Granville Sewell – American mathematician
Thomas B. Sheridan – American engineer and professor
Yeram S. Touloukian – Professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center at Purdue UniversityPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Raymond Viskanta – American scientist (1931–2021)
Wang Buxuan – Chinese scientist in engineering thermophysics
Jack Woolf – President of the University of Texas at ArlingtonPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Yan Hong-sen – Taiwanese politicianPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Lawrence Yun – American economist




Notable faculty






= Current Faculty

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Luciano Castillo, 2017–
Pavlos Vlachos, 2013–
John W. Sutherland, 2009–
Gregory Shaver, 2006–
R. Byron Pipes, 2004–
Steve Wereley, 1999–
Karthik Ramani, 1991–




= Past Faculty

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Tahira Reid Smith, 2011–2023
Qingyan Chen, 2002–2021
Timothy S. Fisher, 2002–2020
Suresh Garimella, 1989–2019
Monika Ivantysynova, 2004–2018
Jayathi Murthy, 2001–2012
Raymond Viskanta, 1962–2001
Frank P. Incropera, 1966–1998
Arthur H. Lefebvre, 1976–1993
Yeram S. Touloukian, 1948–1981
Richard J. Grosh, 1953–1971
Rufus Oldenburger, 1956–1969
Andrey Abraham Potter, 1920–1953
William Freeman Myrick Goss, 1879–1907




References






External links


Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

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