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.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008a/08 0505McCartneyBuild.h tml
It may not be the fastest food, but teams from around the country will try their best to make a hamburger sandwich in the most inefficient way possible during the 21st annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on April 5 at Purdue University.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008a/08 0326RubeNational.htm l
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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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 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.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008b/08 0904PiggottGreen.htm l
Ind. Gov. Mitch Daniels joined executives from global technology giant EDS (NYSE:EDS) and officials from Purdue Research Park on Thursday (Feb. 21) to announce the company's plans to locate its national software solution center here, creating more than 200 software engineer and business analyst positions by 2010.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008a/08 0221HornettEDS.html
For those ready to get their geek on, Purdue Unviersity has created the computer game for you.
Rack-A-Node is an online video game that lets those über-geeks who love both science and technology try their hand at designing and operating a simulated research supercomputer.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2008b/08 1110BowenGame.html
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.
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 Pride is a program highlighting campus people and activities that is broadcast on the Big Ten Network. This segment features spring activities including the Rube Goldberg contest, the Purdue Grand Prix and the concrete canoe race.
President France A. Córdova spoke at her first Purdue University commencement ceremony, which took place at 9:30 a.m. Saturday (Aug. 4) at Elliott Hall of Music. Among the 1,234 degrees being awarded 602 were undergraduate degrees, three were professional degrees, 374 were master's degrees and 255 were doctoral degrees.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2007b/07 0804DehahnCommence.h tml
Christoph Hoffmann, a professor of computer science and director of Purdue's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, a division of Information Technology at Purdue, says the animation reveals more information than could be conveyed through a scientific simulation alone.
http://news.uns.p urdue.edu/x/2007a/07 0612HoffmannWTC.html