CHICAGO -- A whimsical machine can help you get ready in the morning. Slowly. A team of students from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers took the top prize at the Rube Goldberg Machine ...

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 ...

Jennifer George, Rube Goldberg's granddaughter, talks with members of Purdue's Society Professional Engineers and Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers team. The Purdue team is claiming a world ...

Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the Batesville Community School Corporation was held on Saturday, Feb. 24, ...

Why open an umbrella with your hands when you can create a series of 20-plus chain reactions using science and technology skills to accomplish the same goal? That's the challenge put forth by the Rube ...

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 ...

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 ...