Smart Manufacturing Industrial Informatics

Patent-pending Engineering Technology innovation allows 3D printing of tiny multilevel microfluidic devices

Huachao Mao, assistant professor of engineering technology in Purdue University’s Polytechnic college, and his team have created a method to fabricate economical multilevel microfluidic devices as small as one-tenth of the diameter of a human hair. The new method could be beneficial to cancer cell analysis, drug screenings, environmental testing, geology, manufacturing and other fields.

Dudley, Lambertus Halls (Gateway Complex) dedication signals kinship between Polytechnic, Engineering, industry sponsors

Purdue Polytechnic and the College of Engineering celebrated the dedication of Dudley and Lambertus Halls, the Engineering & Polytechnic Gateway Complex. The state-of-the-art $140 million complex, built during the last three years, opened in January 2023. It is now home to new laboratories for the Polytechnic’s School of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, Department of Computer and Information Technology and Department of Computer Graphics Technology, plus faculty offices and numerous labs and offices for the College of Engineering.

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