David Cannon (from left), Alex Weaver and Matt Miller react to a flawless run of their Purdue Society of Professional Engineers/Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers machine at the Purdue local ...

Zach Umperovitch (in hat) adjusts the PSPE/SHPE machine at the local Rube Goldberg competition Saturday at Purdue. The team won the competition and will compete in the national contest March 31. Also ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A team of Purdue University engineering students has won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest with an absurdly complex contraption for changing the batteries in a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE -- For the third time in the last four years, the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers finished first in the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday at the Purdue Armory.

A team that designed a machine that took 300 steps to accomplish 25 different tasks has won this year's regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The team from Purdue Society of Professional Engineers ...