is there a robotics club on campus ?

A quick google using the terms purdue west lafayette robotics (googled all the way from Australia) found this:

1285 EE Building, Box 230 Robot Vision Laboratory Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285 Office: (765) 494-3454 ... and a gentleman's name and e-mail address.

That might be a better place to get information like this than a world wide newsgroup likely to have only one participant from Purdue. Your question is kind of like ringing information and asking for your mother's birthday, i.e. you are better placed than the rest of us to answer this question with a little bit of personal exertion.

Cheers,

-- Alf Katz snipped-for-privacy@remove.the.obvious.ieee.org