2022 Maha Fluid Power Conference Returns To Purdue University in May

Purdue’s Maha Fluid Power Research Center will host the 2022 Maha Fluid Power Conference at Purdue University from May 17 to 19. The goal of the conference is to network, exchange ideas, and present the recent research trends in fluid power and related applications.

“The two keynote speakers are from the two most important labs in Germany and certainly among the most important labs in the world. We have Katharina Schmitz from IFAS in Aachen and Jürgen Weber,from Dresden, who will give talks about mobile machinery. Then we have some other professionals from Europe, from Tampere University and Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, both in Finland and Linköping University, in Sweden,” Vacca said. “So really the top schools, the top centers for fluid power in the Scandinavian region that is a traditionally very strong are well represented. And we have also some other presenters from Italy, from Technical University of Turin, from the University of Naples. Then we have other speakers from Purdue, University of Michigan, and Minnesota.

The Maha Fluid Power Research Center is a University Research Center of Purdue University and it is the largest academic lab in the United States focusing on fluid power research. The center has two core faculty members, more than 5 affiliated faculty, 2 permanent staff, and around 30 researchers focusing their research on various fluid power topics such as novel hydraulic components and systems, following original approaches including both computer modeling and real-world experimentation. The center has available 15,000 square feet of lab space, including several test rigs and prototype vehicles.