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 ...

In 1999, a 10-year-old Rory McIlroy was introduced to the world. The phenom appeared on the Northern Irish talk show “Kelly" and demonstrated to the adoring crowd how he used his mother's washing ...

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 ...

Rory McIlroy still has his 9-year-old touch. McIlroy, who famously appeared on an Irish talk show in 1999 and successfully chipped balls into a washing machine, again took on the challenge Thursday in ...

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 ...