Video of the 2007 national Rube Goldberg Machine contest conducted at Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2007a/07 0331RubeNat.html
When it comes to keeping it clean, Philip Nelson delivers.
As a professor of food science at Purdue University, he spent years perfecting the primary method that today allows many juices and other liquid foods to be safely processed, packaged and shipped around the world in mass quantities.
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Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten's largest campus supercomputer in just a day on Monday, May 5.
But it didn't take that long ? they were done by lunch.
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In May 2008, more than 200 faculty and staff installed a new supercomputer at Purdue. The funding came as a result of 25 researchers and engineering pooling their grant monies.
For the third time in the last four years, the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers earned the top spot in the 21st annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday (April 5) at the Purdue Armory.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, placed second, and the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., was third.
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Purdue Pride is a program highlighting campus people and activities that is broadcast on the Big Ten Network. This segment features information about the end of the $1.5 billion Campaign for Purdue and the end of the Martin C. Jischke presidency.
Purdue University on Sept. 15-20 celebrated its first Green Week, a series of activities around campus to bring attention to sustainability issues.
The weeklong Alternative Transportation Challenge encouraged faculty, staff and students to use buses, carpooling, biking or walking to get to classes, work or to run errands.
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Spring Fest took place at various locations across the Purdue campus. In its ninth year as a campuswide event, Spring Fest this year drew attention to the lighter side of higher education with hands-on games, experiments and programs.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008a/08 0403KirkpatrickSprin gfest.html
Purdue and at least 16 of its astronaut alumni on Saturday (Oct. 27) dedicated the university's Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, hailing the new $53.2 million building as a gateway to engineering research and education.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2007b/07 1027CelArmstrongDedi cation.html
The Big Ten's largest supercomputer will be installed at Purdue University in a single-day, electronic "barn-raising."
More than 200 employees will gather on May 5, to help build the massive machine.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008a/08 0501McCartneySteeleN at.html