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Euzeli dos Santos is a Purdue electrical and computer engineering professor in Indianapolis. Santos explains his work with power electronics and, specifically, his work with microinverters and his recent work with CCTO devices. He emphasizes how the established industry in Indianapolis combined with the help of Purdue’s resources prove very important to researchers in the area.
Nikhilesh Chawla, the Associate Dean for Engineering in Indianapolis and Ransburg Professor in the School of Materials Engineering, has been made a fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). TMS is the premier society in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.
Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 20 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
When the Purdue Student Section of the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) was chartered in 1954, few women were studying engineering. SWE started modestly with 20 members, only five years after the national Society of Women Engineers first met.Today, SWE’s membership has grown to about 700 men and women, making it one of the largest engineering student organizations at Purdue.
Purdue University will host the 23rd World Building Congress (WBC2025) at its campus in West Lafayette from May 19-23, 2025. The title of the conference is “Sustainable Built Environment – The Role of the Construction Community in Meeting the UN SDGs.”
Purdue University's College of Engineering participated in the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Campus Connection event. The gathering offered UMBC students a chance to learn about Purdue's graduate engineering programs.
Findings provide encouraging evidence to advance ADPO-002NP treatment toward first-in-human Phase I clinical trials.
At the 2024 SREB Institute on Teaching and Mentoring and the Sloan Grantee Leadership Meeting in New Orleans, Purdue University’s Sloan Center for Systemic Change (SCSC) demonstrated its commitment to transforming graduate education. These influential gatherings offered Purdue’s SCSC team the opportunity to connect with other Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Centers for Systemic Change grant recipients to discuss effective strategies for building equitable graduate experiences.
April Savoy, an assistant professor of industrial engineering in Indianapolis, discusses her expertise in industrial engineering, human factors engineering and computer science. With a background researching health information technology, she hopes to improve situational awareness of clinicians and patients and their shared decision-making. Savoy is excited about the increased access to Purdue engineering resources, internship opportunities and the transformations in health care associated with it.
The collaboration seeks to attract sports tech companies to the city to drive industry innovation in Indiana
Pavlos Vlachos, the St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering and director of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
On September 1st, the Purdue University Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student chapter celebrated its most successful IEEE Day yet, coinciding with the organization’s 121st anniversary.
Sustainea, an innovative company dedicated to manufacturing sustainable chemicals with a low-carbon footprint, is planning to invest $400 million in Lafayette, Indiana. In collaboration with local company Primient, who will supply corn-based dextrose precursors, Sustainea will convert this renewable feedstock into monoethylene glycol -- a key chemical intermediate used in everyday products from food containers to footwear.
Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 10 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Anybody who has gotten food poisoning knows how bad it is. It’s also rampant — according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), each year 1 in 6 Americans becomes sick from contaminated food or beverages, and 3,000 die from some foodborne illness.
Each year, the U.S. Department of Commerce holds Manufacturing Day on the first Friday in October to show students, parents and the public what modern manufacturing is all about. The fourth industrial revolution is rapidly changing our world. New advanced manufacturing technologies bring about whole new careers, requiring a skilled workforce interested in pursuing them. From bioengineers to data analysts to robotics technicians, and all the operations in between, Purdue Engineering is at the forefront of the revolution.
Purdue’s College of Engineering has scored its highest number of undergraduate rankings in the top 10 for the third consecutive year in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey of Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.
On Oct. 4, National Manufacturing Day, Purdue University plans to unveil a pivotal roadmap focusing on advancing pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing. The roadmap will be launched as part of a groundbreaking event for The William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals "racetrack" facility.
The journey from student to faculty member is not always clear, but the Purdue Engineering Academic Career Club (EACC) aims to bridge that gap with its Summer Mentoring Circle Program. Now in its fifth year, the program has helped Engineering graduate students and postdocs navigate the path to academic careers.
Purdue University is known as a leader in aeronautics and engineering, but did you know that the university also has cutting edge technology for pharmaceutical manufacturing? The Food and Drug Administration attended a week-long training program at Purdue in August where employees gained experience with the new, more streamlined process for manufacturing drugs.
Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley Professor in Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named the 2024 Technical Excellence Award winner by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) for his pioneering contributions to the design of artificial intelligence hardware and approximate computing. SRC celebrates outstanding achievements in microelectronics research and the semiconductor industry by annually recognizing university researchers and industry professionals.
The Dean's Leadership Scholars, within Purdue University's College of Engineering, recognizes and nurtures the talents of a group of undergraduate students. Established in 2019, the program selects students based on academic and leadership accomplishments to serve in an external advisory role to the dean. This year, 11 new students were selected for the 2024-2025 cohort, joining nine existing scholars.
Congratulations to Purdue University researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines. They have recently received 21 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Aravind Machiry, assistant professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received an National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program(CAREER) award for his proposed work titled “Securing Deeply Embedded Software.”
Purdue University’s highly ranked College of Engineering is offering its first 100% online doctoral degree in a highly customizable program designed for professionals who want to enhance their careers while gaining skills with practical application in their current jobs.
Purdue University is scheduled to break ground for the William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals “racetrack” facility and unveil a related technology roadmap Oct. 4. The event will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Indiana Manufacturing Institute, 1105 Endeavour Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana. It will include remarks at 4 p.m., facility tours, and refreshments.
Saurabh Bagchi, professor in the Elmore School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a finalist for the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) Achievement Medal, a global award in engineering. Winners will be announced and presented in London on Oct. 18.
"Drivers, start your engines!" is the traditional call at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But what if the drivers were replaced by computers? Then you'd have the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a new competition featuring the world's fastest autonomous race cars. Purdue AI Racing recently showcased its car maneuvering autonomously around the track at speeds up to 140 miles an hour.
Purdue University has always had a resolute focus on serving those who serve our country, and its commitment to national security is paramount as a land-grant university. Purdue is now further strengthening its endeavors as a thought leader for national security and defense by announcing Defense Innovation, its newest Purdue Engineering Initiative (PEI).
Seniors in ABE, BME, ECE and ME were among the sixth class of fellows, announced Sept. 9, 2024.
TASI and its collaborators and partners generate impactful research and societal benefits for central Indiana and beyond.
The 67th Radiobioassay & Radiochemical Measurements Conference (RRMC) will be held October 21st - 25th, 2024 at both Purdue University and the Dallara Indycar Factory in Speedway, IN.
The Center for a Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME), a public-private-academic partnership led by Purdue University that aims to address key challenges in securing the microelectronics supply chain, announced in August that MediaTek, the world’s 5th largest global fabless semiconductor company, has joined its consortium. MediaTek joins foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, and EDA partner Synopsys, Inc., a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP. Through collaboration with the DOD-supported Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement (SCALE) Microelectronics Workforce Program at Purdue, students receive training as highly-skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers and manufacturing experts.
Preparing the next-generation workforce to bring the United States back to prominence in global microelectronics research and manufacturing was the focus of a workshop held in June that brought together faculty from Purdue and 17 additional faculty from seven Ivy Tech locations. The field of microelectronics is expected to add nearly 115,000 jobs by 2030, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
One of the world’s top engineering scholars is driving the creation of nanomaterials known as MXenes in his Indianapolis and West Lafayette research labs.
There’s a lot more to the wonder drugs that provide life-changing treatments than the research breakthroughs that enable them. Just because you make something work in a lab doesn’t mean you can produce it at scale, especially given the fact that pharmaceuticals are inherently unstable. After discovery of the novel substance (molecule) comes follow-on steps like manufacturing (at acceptable yields), packaging, quality assurance, storage/preservation, logistics/transportation, and regulatory approval — all obstacles to overcome so the new therapeutic’s benefits can be realized across society, including remote, underserved populations. Elizabeth Topp and Alina Alexeenko discuss the ins and outs of advanced pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing — including in space — and the nexus of Purdue and Indiana as a powerhouse in this strategic economic and social impact sector.
Is it possible to use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT without internet access?
Nearly 1,400 engineering students were projected to start classes Aug. 19 at Purdue University in Indianapolis.
At Purdue, classroom, lab and seminar learning is the springboard for a student's deep dive into their passions. Purdue students are not only excelling in foundational tenets taught in that traditional academic setting — they are spilling out after class to join or start clubs and organizations, collaborating across disciplines with other students and faculty, entering national and international competitions, and hosting national expos in their fields. They are developing professionally by learning hands-on at industry level via internships and experiential co-ops, and launching research and startups to take their pursuits to a whole new level. This episode of Engenuity features two students who are taking part in the intellectual and innovation ferment — in their case, in space and robotics — that is bubbling across the Purdue campus.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” October session will take place on Wednesday, October 30, with opening remarks at 11:30 a.m.
Santokh Badesha, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is leading a groundbreaking course at Purdue University on patents. The course reflects the practical experiences of an inventor rather than focusing solely on legal jargon.
William (Bill) Oakes, the 150th Anniversary Professor of Engineering Education, assumed the new role on July 16, 2024, replacing Alina Alexeenko.
Purdue University College of Engineering’s Interns for Indiana (IFI) program is getting a boost in its first year of offering degrees in Indianapolis.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” September session will take place on Wednesday, September 25, with opening remarks at 11:30 a.m.
Beginning Fall 2024, the Ivy Tech campus in Columbus, Indiana, will be the first cohort in a program that allows students a combined degree with Purdue's College of Engineering.
Most people think of research and innovation as the precursor to large-scale production, and that often is the case. A breakthrough idea, through follow-on refinement, can lead to a well-received product that warrants mass manufacturing.
Supriyo Datta, the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has added a major feather to his professional cap. On April 30, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
More than 100 Purdue students from the mother chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers attended the NSBE annual convention in Atlanta in March 2024.
Song Zhang, professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, is developing patented and patent-pending innovations that make 3D microscopes faster to operate and less expensive to manufacture.
Haiyan Wang, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering in the School of Materials Engineering, and Xinghang Zhang, a professor of materials engineering, have developed a method to improve ceramic room-temperature plastic deformability.
Two graduate students, Emily Barber and Glynn Gallaway, are the newest recipients of a program that will allow them to immerse themselves in prominent research laboratories outside of Purdue University.
First prize ($10,000) and Crowd Favorite ($1,000) went to Emboa Medical whose tea members include College of Engineering students 'ngel Enr'quez and Sergio Ruiz.
April 24 marked the grand opening of the Purdue CARES Hub, an undertaking made possible by gifts from external donors — fitting that its grand opening coincided with Purdue Day of Giving 2024.
In an effort to accelerate physical, digital and sustainable manufacturing efforts across Indiana, Purdue University’s Manufacturing and Materials Research Laboratories will establish a presence in Indianapolis at 16 Tech Innovation District.
A group of Purdue researchers has launched a multidisciplinary project named FIREFLY to model, simulate and analyze cyber-physical systems. The multiphase $6.5 million project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Luna Lu, Purdue’s Reilly Professor of Civil Engineering, has been recognized as a gold winner of an Edison Award in the Critical Human Infrastructure category for leading the development of sensor technology that could help reduce time and money spent on the construction and repair of concrete highway pavement and other structures. The Edison Awards, considered the “Oscars of innovation," are given annually to “recognize the persistence and excellence that also characterized Thomas Edison’s work.”
Nien-Hwa “Linda” Wang, the Dr. Norman and Dr. Jane Li Professor in Chemical Engineering in Purdue’s Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, leads a team that developed innovative technologies to separate and purify rare earth and battery elements from a variety of sources including ores, postindustrial wastes and recycled magnets.
David Cappelleri, a professor of mechanical engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed assistant vice president for research innovation in the Office of Research, effective May 1.
The Center on AI for Digital, Autonomous and Augmented Aviation (AIDA3) will deliver innovations for unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous systems, focusing on developments that can be scaled up as demand for the technology grows.
After an extensive search, Kevin J. Otto has been named the next Dane Miller Head of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. His initial five-year term at Purdue will begin July 1, 2024.
A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged—and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine.
Stylianos Chatzidakis, asistant professor of nuclear engineering, is working to realize a digital twin in the nuclear industry.
Purdue University engineers John Haddock, Nadia Gkritza, Dionysios Aliprantis and Steve Pekarek and the Indiana Department of Transportation are working to make it possible for electric vehicles ranging from tractor-trailers to passenger cars to wirelessly charge while driving on highways.
The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (April 5) ratified a plan to merge the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the Division of Construction Engineering and Management. The change will be effective July 1, 2024, when the school's name will be changed to the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Arezoo Ardekani, professor of mechanical engineering, to its College of Fellows.
SK hynix Inc. announced April 3 that it plans to invest close to $4 billion to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products in the Purdue Research Park.
Purdue University's College of Engineering sesquicentennial will be a yearlong celebration, starting in September 2024.
Letian Dou, Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue, oversaw the overall effort to synthesize and characterize the layered perovskite structures.
Seniors in ChE, ECE, EEE, ME, MSE and NE were among the fifth class of fellows, announced Sept. 11.
A novel mathematical model can bypass time-consuming and costly experimentation to accurately predict the drug release. The underlying study, “Mechanistic computational modeling of implantable, bioresorbable, drug release systems,” has been published by the journal Advanced Materials.
The investment will catalyze and accelerate the existing collaborative research agreements that focus on national security and defense and on semiconductors.
The funding for the SCALE (Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement) microelectronics workforce development program will strengthen existing efforts in key research areas and to add new academic partners. Peter Bermel is SCALE director and professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Engineers in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing a patent-pending tool that scientists in academia and industry can use to record those ultrafast actions better than with traditional technology.
A Purdue-led team has been awarded nearly $1 million to pursue a technology of using microwaves to make the freeze-drying process twice as fast and more cost-effective. Like astronaut ice cream, many vaccines are made stable for transport and storage through freeze-drying, also known as lyophilization.
Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza, professor at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has been named a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers Board of Directors.
Purdue University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School have signed an educational partnership agreement designed to enable USNTPS students to earn Purdue graduate degrees online with credit for their USNTPS training.
Experts at the Army Research Laboratory and the ARL-funded Assured Autonomy Innovation Institute at Purdue talk about assured autonomy, its current state, what the institute is doing and what the future holds.
Waterloo Tsutsui, a senior research associate in AAE, teaches two courses each in aeromechanics and structural analysis.
Sajon Seaberg is the second consecutive Purdue mechanical engineering student to be given the award.
IISE member and fellow Yuehwern Yih is a professor in the School of Industrial Engineering.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” September session will take place on Tuesday, September 5, with opening remarks at 11:30 am.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” November session will take place on Wednesday, November 29, with opening remarks at 11:30 am.
A Purdue University experiment that arrived Aug. 4 to the International Space Station aims to collect data scientists need to answer decades-old questions about how boiling and condensation work in reduced gravity.
Purdue Engineering Graduate Programs is hosting the Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase, a premier graduate recruitment event, Oct. 1 and 2. Fully online, this event includes informational workshops, program-specific sessions, research highlights, virtual lab tours, and more.
Manufacturing and Operations are the backbones of America’s security and livelihood. Excellence in physical, digital, and sustainable manufacturing and operations allows America to lead the second renaissance that has started. Innovations in XMO are critical in reshoring and building new industries, retooling American plants, and retraining Americans for all the jobs to build a sustainable manufacturing and operations renaissance. Bringing corporate, government, and academic leaders on one bi-partisan platform is Purdue’s goal to kick off a meaningful national dialogue for a long-lasting impact. As Hoosiers we believe Indiana, where manufacturing at the crossroads America is a culture we owe this to the nation.
Nearly 200 rising high school seniors from 24 states were on Purdue University's campus this summer for the Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects.
Purdue University, the Indiana University School of Medicine and medical device company Cook Medical are forming a new alliance, the Crossroads Pediatric Device Consortium.
Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service Program (EPICS) has been named one of the most influential experiential learning programs in the country.
Following a successful pilot EPICS program last fall with Purdue and Morgan State University students, a strong partnership continued between both institutions this summer with the 2023 EPIC workshop hosted at Morgan State on June 22-23.
Husheng Li, professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, talks about research involving modeling attack jamming and defense anti-jamming as a zero-sum stochastic (probabilistic) game.
Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Martha E. Gross Associate Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is the associate dean for graduate and professional education for the College of Engineering. Her appointment was effective July 1, 2023.
The University Faculty Scholars program, offered through the Office of the Provost, is intended to recognize outstanding faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.
Nina Mahmoudian, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a Fulbright Scholar Award to spend five months in Portugal researching autonomous marine exploration.
Carolin Frueh, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, is investigating how to observe and keep track of all human-made objects and predict the impact of their potential damage in this Earth-moon neighborhood, called the cislunar region.
Ming Qu, a professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2023-2024 in Japan.
This workshop will explore opportunities for in-space manufacturing of semiconductors* and their applications on Earth and in space. The goal is to identify trends and drivers for roadmapping this topic.
The new Summer Training on Awareness and Readiness for Semiconductors program, which runs through July 7, helps students develop deep-tech skills like IC design, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor devices and materials.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has selected Purdue University to partner with Saab on the development of next-wave artificial intelligence capabilities to increase battlespace situational awareness by automatically detecting and characterizing threats in complex environments.
Traditional approaches to factoring in uncertainty when making plans fall woefully short. Can Li, an assistant professor in chemical engineering, uses a data-driven optimization approach that can consider all the scenarios that could take place and include all of them in the optimization framework.
Davide Ziviani, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, is leading a team that has received a three-year, $1.9 million grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, a program designed to increase the Department of Defense's environmental resilience.
Episode 85 of the podcasts series looks into semiconductors with Mark Lundstrom, the University's chief semiconductor officer and Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In its ongoing efforts to help the U.S. regain preeminence in the semiconductor industry, Purdue University and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue signed memorandums of understanding with two research universities in Taiwan, the world’s largest producer of microchips.
Purdue President Mung Chiang, left, and Rick Cassidy, chairman of TSMC Arizona, met Monday for a signing ceremony in the Indianapolis Bottleworks District. Purdue and TSMC extended an ongoing semiconductor partnership, expanding their collaborative scope through additional workforce development and research programs through 2031.
Keith Cherkauer, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and an agronomy colleague will begin receiving drone imagery collected on a panel of 1,200 soybean varieties that breeders have planted in 11 states.
Fu Zhao, professor of environmental and ecological engineering and mechanical engineering, received an award for sustained and meritorious contributions to design for manufacturing and life-cycle assessment.
Makarand “Mark” Hastak, professor and Dernland Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Construction.
The Social Innovations course connects the innovative power of students to social impact startups like Sanku, a company that prints and delivers nearly 800,000 flour sacks to partner flour mills each month across Tanzania, Africa.
Cadet worked with Shreyas Sundaram and ECE graduate student Dylan Taylor, a West Point alumnus, on a project titled “Cooperative Teaming of Autonomous Systems.”
Theodore 'Ted' Weidner, a professor of engineering practice at Purdue, has decades of experience as a facilities and construction manager at public and private institutions. He thinks people interested in the discipline might enjoy these books.
The Summer Institute for Climate Change & Coastal Resilience, a STEM and social science research project, will bring together high school students, Purdue students and K-12 teachers to conduct research in Puerto Rico with leading faculty from Purdue and the University of Puerto Rico.
An EPICS team is working with a beep baseball team in Indianapolis to redesign the ball the league uses.
Greg Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor and director of Purdue’s Herrick Labs, is researching large diesel engines to improve on-the-road efficiency and emissions.
The Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility is a 65,000-square-foot building that is home to two cutting-edge wind tunnels, the only Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel in the world and the HYPULSE reflected shock/expansion tunnel.
LASER PULSE, the global consortium led by Purdue Engineering, convened university leaders and researchers from around sub-Saharan Africa in Kampala, Uganda, on April 12-13.
Sydney Hummel, an undergraduate student in the School of Chemical Engineering, has been named to the 2023 class of Astronaut Scholars by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has accepted associate professor Tyler Tallman's proposal to their Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.
Given the national trend and ongoing innovation, ICON faculty contributor Shanyue Guan envisions more UAV-based inspections, leading to more accurate and timely decisions about replacing or better maintaining and repairing infrastructure.
On Sunday (May 21) in Hiroshima, Japan, Purdue President Mung Chiang signed another landmark international agreement, partnering with Micron, Tokyo Electron and other educational institutions in the United States and Japan to establish the “UPWARDS Network” for workforce advancement and research and development in semiconductors.
Purdue University, through the William D. Young Institute for Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals, convened the 2023 Indiana Life Sciences Manufacturing Summit on March 9. Young, senior advisor at Blackstone Life Sciences, delivered the keynote, “Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing Challenges from an Investing Perspective.”
Thanks to a group of Purdue Engineering students, Lafayette’s Greenbush Cemetery has a new historical marker that pays tribute to a local Civil War colonel.
Keith LeGrand, assistant professor of aeronautical and astronautical engineering, is working on developing estimation algorithms that fuse information from a variety of sources for the next generation of sensors.
Students in BME 595 showed off wearable sensors on stage during a live karaoke lab, designed to measure their reaction to a potentially stressful activity.
Ran Dai, an associate professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, aims to develop intelligent, origami-inspired transformable systems to support the design and control of adaptable systems for resource reuse and cost reduction in space missions.
Led by Tiwei Wei, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a Purdue team has received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop cooling systems.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $150,000 grant to faculty members in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue School of Language and Cultures and Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education program for a curricular initiative that integrates the humanities and engineering.
A delegation from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University visited Purdue University with a focus on strengthening the collaboration between Purdue and NYCU in semiconductor initiatives at both institutions.
Purdue has entered into another landmark international agreement, this one with the government of India, to advance workforce development, research and development, and industry partnerships in semiconductors.
Amit Varma, Purdue’s Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Bowen Laboratory, was part of the Purdue research to establish SpeedCore, an award-winning construction system.
Purdue Engineering draws on a long history of excellence in manufacturing and operations research, education and innovation for translation to announce the eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations Purdue Engineering Initiative.
Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the PI on a project entitled “OptNet: Optimization with p-bit Networks.” Sunil Bhave, professor of ECE, is part of a team working on a project entitled “Quantum phononics to advance quantum information processing.”
Purdue University engineers Dionysios Aliprantis, Nadia Gkritza, John Haddock and Steve Pekarek are testing technology they designed to enable electric vehicles to receive power from the road.
A research team led by mechanical engineering associate professor Thomas Beechem has created a tool that makes the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable and repeatable than traditional methods.
The Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) is a new scholarship-for-civilian-service award open to students who will be juniors in fall 2023.
The Department of Energy has awarded a Purdue University team and Cummins, Inc., a $1.25-million grant to develop two action plans for zero-emission infrastructure along the I-80 Midwest corridor.
Kathleen Howell, the Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AAE student Shreya Misra and ECE student Sihun Kim and CEM alumnus Thomas Shelby will be featured at spring commencement.
Mechanical engineering Professor David Cappelleri’s team has built a Helical Adaptive Multi-material MicroRobot (HAMMR), and the research has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Technology by Pavlos Vlachos, St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering, has changed how cardiologists plan for life-saving surgeries on babies with congenital heart defects. That work, along with much of his current and past research has earned Vlachos election as a fellow to an organization with very few engineers – the American Heart Association.
The Indiana Engineering Grant for Out-of-State Graduates is offering $7,000 to graduates who enroll in the program and complete six months of full-time employment in an engineering-related field in Indiana.
Ramses Martinez, who has joint appointments in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering, chats with ChE undergraduate Yasar Dambo in the College of Engineering's video series, "Office Hours."
In 2022, Purdue Research Foundation received an impressive 192 patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, placing it fifth internationally.
Five faculty members from Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering share books they've enjoyed and been deeply affected by during their careers.
Thendral Kamal, a sophomore in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, met her Purdue Engineering hero, Sirisha Bandla, a member of Purdue University's Cradle of Astronauts.
The 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report national graduate school rankings, released April 25, put Purdue’s College of Engineering at No. 4 out of 220 for the third consecutive year.
David Warsinger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and his team are developing new materials and systems for membrane atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) and sorbent AWH.
Kurt Ristroph, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and his lab develops nanomaterials and scalable nanoformulation processes for both medical and agricultural applications.
Phillip S. Dunston is the new director of the Office of Professional Practice (OPP) at Purdue University. The appointment was effective April 1, 2023.
A semiconductor crisis would damage every industry, weaken global security and change everyday life as we know it. We can’t afford to wait and see how this issue evolves. Purdue is acting now.
Mark Lundstrom, the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is Purdue University's first chief semiconductor officer, which will coordinate and lead Purdue's efforts toward innovative research and development in semiconductors.
College of Engineering faculty highlight list of FY2023 Significant Sponsored Program Awards approaching $1 million or more.
Purdue University and its Board of Trustees announced April 14 a major initiative consisting of three dimensions to propel computer science to the nation’s top 10, launch the Institute of Physical AI and expand semiconductor facilities.
Purdue University, a wellspring for hypersonics research, is moving to help fill the need for people trained in the field with a new 100% online Hypersonics Graduate Certificate.
The Purdue Engineering Student Council presented a donation to Purdue President Mung Chiang to establish a space designated for student wellness.
A team of researchers at Purdue University's Joint Transportation Research Program, including Director and engineering professor Darcy Bullock, investigated which rural areas would be the best candidates for electric vehicle chargers.
Brandon Pitts, assistant professor of industrial engineering, has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop a framework to evaluate how older adults apply their accumulated knowledge in safety-critical, dynamic settings.
A Purdue University agreement is continuing to extend the educational reach of the Purdue College of Engineering to students at Vincennes University.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted BME Professor of Practice, Brad Duerstock, to their 2023 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows.
Effective April 1, Arvind Raman is the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering.
Eighteen students from Purdue University's Colleges of Engineering, Pharmacy and Science visited Ireland, hosted by leading biopharma companies and researchers at University College Dublin.
Somali Chaterji, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering, chats with ChE undergraduate Mamie Johnson in the College of Engineering's video series, "Office Hours."
Workshops are aimed at individuals considering faculty careers in engineering academia.
Facilitated through the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the center will take students' original artificial intelligence and high-performance computing research projects to the next level through teaching oneAPI in the classroom.
Yining Feng, a research assistant professor of civil engineering, looks to enable sustainable built environments and human-environmental health through multidisciplinary research into materials and related device technology.
Purdue University recently celebrated 50 years of Title IX by honoring 14 recipients with Title IX Distinguished Service Awards. Beth Holloway, the Leah H. Jamieson Director of Women in Engineering since 2001, was recognized at the award reception Feb. 28.
Purdue University researchers, led by Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering Darcy Bullock, have developed techniques to harness big data from connected vehicles to monitor congestion caused by crashes, weather and construction.
Gerhard Klimeck, Milind Kulkarni and Na "Luna" Lu will assume new leadership responsibilities.
A Department of Energy (DOE) team, led by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk, together with National Science Foundation (NSF) representatives from its Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) division and Purdue partners met on March 15 at the University of São Paulo Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP) to highlight Brazil-U.S. collaborations in the area of energy. The goal was to provide the Deputy Secretary with an overview of the clean energy science, technology, and innovation environment in Brazil. Three roundtable sessions brought together a variety of perspectives from academia, government, and industry, including the international context under which the U.S. and Brazil enjoy a growing and fruitful collaboration in clean energy.
The world’s whitest paint, developed by Purdue University researchers and recognized in Guinness World Records, has been named winner of the 2023 Innovation Award in the sustainability category by South by Southwest Conference & Festivals (SXSW).
Two years ago, Shantanu Roy and Thomas Stahura never imagined that generative artificial intelligence would become so popular, sophisticated and accessible in such a short amount of time. Now, as co-founders of the software development company Quasi, the two Purdue juniors are working hard to make their mark in an industry that’s growing and changing every day.
Supply chain burst upon the scene as a suddenly familiar topic to the general public with the global COVID-19 pandemic, as illness and lockdowns stymied companies large and small in their efforts to get commodities and parts to make everyday products from toilet paper to cars.
Luna Lu, the Reilly Professor and acting head of Purdue's Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has developed technology that could replace methods the construction industry has been using for more than a hundred years to test when concrete structures are ready to take on an external load.
The Digital Twin Lab, led by CE's Ziran Wang, uses wireless communication technologies to allow automated vehicles to transmit information among one another or with traffic infrastructures, making them 'connected and automated vehicles.'
An agriculture-related project at Purdue has created an open-source framework and community for sharing data and algorithms with the goal to improve sustainable food and agricultural systems to help feed the growing world population.
Novel tools developed by Pavlos Vlachos and Mark Payne in their Purdue-IU partnership will make cardiography more valuable in providing critical information to help surgeons determine the exact surgical strategies to use to make the right ventricle more efficient and capable of sustaining life.
Alexandra Boltasseva won the R.W. Wood Prize, and Andrew Weiner won the Charles Hard Townes Medal from Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America.
The recruitment, retention and graduation initiatives Marion Blalock introduced at Purdue were so successful that they became a template emulated by universities across the country.
A Purdue University team led by Natalia Dudareva, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, and John Morgan, professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has published new details about molecular processes that allow petunias to emit scent chemicals called volatile organic compounds.
Mirian Velay-Lizancos, a Purdue assistant professor of civil engineering, has developed a process that improves upon the traditional method to incorporate phase change materials into construction materials.
Ayhan Irfanoglu, a Purdue civil engineering professor, joined a team of engineers and scientists in assessing the damage from massive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 to determine what needs to be done when larger teams of structural engineers begin arriving in March.
Hitesh Bindra, an associate professor of nuclear engineering, is investigating whether microreactors have sufficiently robust passive safety features to allow them to be transported safely.
Milind Kulkarni, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, chats with ECE undergraduate Sam Dlott in the College of Engineering's video series, "Office Hours."
A Purdue Alumni event with Beth Holloway as the featured speaker. Her presentation is titled "Women and Leadership: Strategies and Opportunities." She will discuss barriers for women in leadership and suggest strategies.
Seetha Raghavan (PhD AAE’08) will be honored during an award reception on March 22 hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and associate dean of research and graduate studies at the College of Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Somali Chaterji, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has been selected to participate in the 2023 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
Meredith Clark, a first-year engineering student, is the only Purdue student in the 2023 class of the fellowship that targets Black engineering students.
Saurabh Bagchi, professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, predicts what stories are likely to dominate the news in 2023 on the latest Purdue Engineering blog on Medium.
Five Purdue Engineering alumni were elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
NanoEX features discussions with eight strongly-motivated researchers at Purdue University, a distinguished lecture from Scientific American's past "Scientist of the Year" - Yurii Vlasov, from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - a seminar led by the research staff of Birck Nanotechnology Center, and a poster session hosted by the students of Purdue University College of Engineering. This event will be a major pillar for Purdue's nanotechnology outreach efforts in the wake of the recently-passed CHIPS Act. Thank you for registering!
Daniel DeLaurentis has been chosen as one of the 28-member Class of 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellows.
The inaugural pilot grant program focused on funding research projects related to cardiovascular health, cancer diagnosis and treatment, musculoskeletal health, otolaryngology and pediatric medicine.
Yu She, assistant professor of industrial engineering, is working to develop control and planning algorithms for a dual arm system in processing plants.
Therese Malinowski and Mark Paral were recipients of the 2023 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship.
AAE sophomore Thendral Kamal was among the 47-member class of 2023 Brooke Owens Fellows, the seventh class of "Brookies."
John W. Sutherland, professor and the Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his research contributions to environmental sustainability in manufacturing and their implementation in industry.
A Purdue group in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering has discovered that LEDs based on halide perovskites can produce more vivid, colorful and brighter images on the display panels of devices such as cell phones and TVs.
Engineering faculty have been tapped for leadership positions in two new research centers launched by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to accelerate U.S. advances in information and communications technologies.
Kumares C. Sinha, the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, and alumnus James E. Rowings have been honored by ASCE with the 2023 Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL).
Starting April 1, Arvind Raman will become the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. He's currently Purdue's executive associate dean of engineering and the Robert V. Adams Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering Issam Mudawar’s research on heat transfer could enable space habitats to be built in extreme environments like the moon.
Carol A. Handwerker, David J. Love, Ajay P. Malshe and Fabio H. Ribeiro were elected as fellows.
Stephan Biller, Amrine Distinguished Professor in Industrial Engineering and the Purdue Business School at Purdue University, is helping the University plan three major initiatives to advance smart manufacturing.
Yan Gu, associate professor of mechanical engineering, wants to model, estimate and control legged robot systems that navigate autonomously on non-stationary surfaces.
Purdue University online engineering increased its overall standing and remained No. 1 in four categories, placing it among the nation's elite in the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Online Programs.
Stratolaunch LLC and Purdue University have established a partnership dedicated to accelerating the time required to design, build, test and fly hypersonic vehicles.
Bumsoo Han's team observe how cancer cells behave in a simulated biological environment.
The Shah Family Global Innovation Lab Presents the 2023 I2D Expo. Featuring a Keynote Address and Q&A session by Matt Futch, Head of Partnerships at X, the moonshot factory for Google.
Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his team have developed conjugated ligands that improve the charge transfer, power conversion capability and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells.
Tiwei Wei, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, use a direct liquid jet impingement cooling on top of the 3D die stack combined with system partitioning technologies for semiconductors.
David Warsinger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, proposed and modeled the membrane-based system in 2021 as a means to dehumidify the air in building HVAC systems. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has awarded the team a $2.4 million grant to demonstrate a similar system for industrial drying.
New smart soft contact lens technology developed by a multidisciplinary team of engineers and health care researchers at Purdue University and Indiana University School of Optometry looks to gather important intraocular pressure measurements for 24-hour cycles as a way to detect glaucoma.
The Vilas Pol Energy Research (ViPER) group of the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University now holds the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM title for the "lowest temperature to charge a lithium-ion battery."
The College of Engineering has announced the New Era Electronics: A Lecture Notes Series, a 21st century continuation of Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee notes that is being published by World Scientific.
Vilas Pol, a professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, and his research group will attempt to set a new Guinness World Records title for "Lowest temperature to charge a lithium-ion battery."
For the 21st time, College of Engineering staff members were recognized at the Staff Awards of Excellence celebration.
John Mulrow, a visiting assistant professor of environmental and ecological engineering, has wide-ranging intellectual interests, driven by concern for the state of our one, shared planet.
Two College of Engineering faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced on Dec. 8.
A celebration marking the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor is set for Dec. 16 at Burton D. Morgan Hall. Purdue's role in transistor history will be highlighted during the event.
Findings published in NANO Letters are key to advancing life-changing technologies, including medical imaging, cell phones and radar communications, and navigation systems.
Melba Crawford, the Nancy Uridil and Francis Bossu Professor in Civil Engineering, is the recipient of the 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Mildred Dresselhaus Medal.
Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been selected for the 2022 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) Rising Star in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology award.
Featuring Dr. Dharmendra Mishra (FS), Ben Paxson (FS), Allie Kingery (FS), Dr. Martin Okos (ABE), and Dr. Rahim Rahimi (MSE)
Beginning on January 1, 2023, Purdue AAE professor James Garrison will be one of the new fellows with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Farhan A. Baqai, alumnus of the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Research Manager at Apple Inc., has been elevated to Fellow status with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor of chemical engineering, has been selected for the 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award as part of the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Conference.
Nikhilesh Chawla, the Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue, is one of the first to utilize four-dimensional imaging to delve further into the complexities of the honeycomb.
Purdue patent-pending method makes 3D printed structures functional by embedding sensor particles in printing filament and evenly dispersing them.
Multifaceted collaboration to include joint research and development programs in partnership with Purdue students and faculty.
Young Kim, professor in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, developed a quick response (QR) code on an edible silk tag that whiskey makers can put in their bottles so consumers can use a smartphone app to confirm authenticity.
Five Purdue Engineering faculty earned designations on Clarivate’s 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers.
Kurt Ristroph, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop nanocarriers as an antibiotic delivery system to help plants fend off citrus greening disease.
Santokh Badesha, adjunct professor for innovation in the Elmore School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently was honored with the Mountbatten Medal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Andrew J. Whelton, professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, helps guide communities on how to rapidly find contamination, communicate warnings and inform strategies for returning damaged systems to safe use.
Students will get to play M&M carnival games to compete for candy prizes in the MSEE Atrium from 11 am – 2 pm.
Researchers at Purdue University have discovered new waves with picometer-scale spatial variations of electromagnetic fields which can propagate in semiconductors like silicon.
In an effort to make well-being easy during dead week students can "grab 'n' go" a care package with healthy snacks, face masks, and more. This will be in the MSEE atrium from 1-4 pm.
Alina Alexeenko, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and chemical engineering, uses her expertise in nanoscale sensors and computational fluid dynamics to study and improve rocket engines, space station systems and methods and machines to freeze-dry food and pharmaceuticals.
Purdue undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff attended the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention in early November.
Carol Handwerker, the Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, has tested and researched materials for almost 30 years to determine the best options for solder that connects electronic components to circuit boards, focusing on almost any physical condition that a circuit board could encounter.
In a recent Forbes articles, President-elect Mung Chiang outlined challenges discussed at Purdue’s first Semiconductor Degrees Leadership Board meeting.
Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is developing the testing method using research by Sulma Mohammed, professor of comparative pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras will soon launch a dual-degree master’s program in semiconductors as part of a newly signed agreement to cooperate in education and research in semiconductors and microelectronics.
Lindsey Payne, director of service learning and assistant professor of practice in environmental and ecological engineering, received the inaugural Teaching Catalyst Award.
Gary Cheng was named a fellow of the International Society of Nanomanufacturing this September.
FYE students and Morgan State civil engineering students will collaborate on the Better Waverly project, an ambitious multi-year engineering-based design project that hopes to improve access to essential community resources in the Better Waverly neighborhood in Baltimore.
The new Purdue Aviation and Space Cybersecurity course will give engineering students much-valued, cyber-domain security proficiency while also providing aeronautical and astronautical engineering know-how to computer science and cybersecurity majors.
A high-tech startup that uses game-based interventions to help users identify stress- and anxiety-related events in real time and receive a personalized intervention has been awarded a federal grant to partially develop its technology through research at College of Engineering.
LifeSpan CEO Jeffrey A. Cary said the company has received a one-year, Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant of $255,409 from the National Science Foundation. It will fund research led by Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering in the School of Industrial Engineering.
Andres Arrieta, associate professor of mechanical engineering with a courtesy appointment in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, is working to solve the problem of "data drowning" that affects drones.
Purdue University to become the first university to embed a graduate-level engineering researcher at Navajo Technical University, the largest tribal college in the country.
Carol Handwerker, the Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering and Professor of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC), part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
More than 700 guests attended the College of Engineering's Family Day on Oct. 15, held as part of Purdue's overall Family Weekend.
Fifteen students from the College of Engineering and Purdue Polytechnic Institute were selected as Kiewit Scholars.
David Johnson, assistant professor in the School of Industrial Engineering, has earned a research award from the National Science Foundation’s Strengthening American Infrastructure Program.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced Oct. 18 the 2022 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering.
For the second time in a year, commercial software provider AnalySwift LLC has received a contract from NASA to develop a design tool for tailorable composites and hybrid system materials.
Building on years of growing engagement and collaboration with the defense, homeland security and intelligence communities, Purdue University is creating the Purdue Institute for National Security, a new interdisciplinary institute purposely structured to attract worldwide talent, advance national security and grow the defense ecosystem at and around the West Lafayette campus.
Since launching in September 2020, the Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) has focused on integrating diverse expertise to tackle fundamental challenges in complex, connected and autonomous systems.
Alexandra Boltasseva is the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, working in the areas of optics, quantum photonics, machine learning, and nanotechnology.
Rahim Rahimi, assistant professor in the School of Materials Engineering, has a patent-pending process that could improve the quality of life for people who undergo orthopedic and trauma surgery annually.
Purdue is tackling data analytics issues in sports through The Data Mine, an interdisciplinary, living-learning community open to students from every Purdue college, program and major.
In its continuing commitment to strengthen expertise in microelectronics and semiconductors, the university held a dedicated weeklong event and announced the development of a new course and summer enrichment program.
Rescue Biomedical has received a Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop its technology that detects when a person is overdosing on an opioid and delivers naloxone to reverse the action.
The Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON) welcomed 10 new ICON-affiliated faculty.
The Office of Professional Practice will recognize individuals who have had a significant influence on Professional Practice programs during its annual Co-op Hall of Fame event at the end of October.
Carolin Frueh, associate professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is putting her considerable mathematical prowess to the test of solving dilemmas that a sanitation department on Earth would never have to contend with.
Purdue University researchers, led by Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Saurabh Bagchi, have developed an algorithm that would help secure any large and complex infrastructure system against cyberattacks.
The vision of Purdue University biomedical engineer Chi Hwan Lee to develop specialized smart soft contact lenses that can accurately measure intraocular pressure (IOP) in a person's eye could be the latest answer to stopping glaucoma-related blindness.
Cagri Savran, professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed the director of the John Martinson Entrepreneurial Center.
Letian Dou, Charles Davidson Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his group has discovered a way to make polymers with a slightly elongated carbon bond that are stable under normal conditions and can be broken down via mild heating, providing a better recycling solution that advances material circularity and sustainability.
Mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Tian Li's process will promote wood as a viable material for the construction of large structures.
Willis "Rick" Conner (BSCE 1976) has been elected to the National Academy of Construction.
Led by Purdue, funded by the Department of Defense and managed by NSWC Crane, SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly skilled U.S. microelectronics engineers, hardware designers and manufacturing experts.
R. Byron Pipes, NAE, is the John Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering and executive director of the Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center (CMSC) at Purdue. Purdue Engineering Review sat down with him for a talk about his life in engineering.
Seven seniors have been announced as 2022-2023 Purdue Engineering Fellows, becoming the fourth class of recipients since the program’s inception.
James V. Krogmeier. professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is proposing an edge computing framework called Avena to address shortcomings of electronic sensors, machines and applications from different vendors not communicating well with one other.
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Ganesh Subbarayan, professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, and Kaushik Roy, the Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently were honored.
The residential Master of Engineering Management graduate program launched the new concentration in 2021.
In 2020 Vatsal Shah, a former Ph.D. student, who graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering in 2021, and other researchers in the school and the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at Purdue developed a methodology to monitor OCR in real time for HVAC&R systems. The OCR monitor provided data on oil circulation in the system outside the compressor and the health and functionality of the overall oil management system.
Darcy Bullock, Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program
BGR leaders and their partners from Purdue’s Fusion Studio for Entertainment and Engineering invited campus partners to create pieces that could enrich new students’ experiences during select BGR events.
“Preparing for Promotion/Tenure: Building a Dossier“
Rao Govindaraju, Bowen Engineering Head and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering
Moderator: Greg Shaver, professor of mechanical engineering
Thinking Critically about Mentoring: Insights from Mentors and Mentees
Panelist: Yuehwern Yih, professor of industrial engineering
The center will also be supported by the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute.
Stephan Biller, professor of Industrial Engineering and the Krannert School of Management, will be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington D.C., on October 2nd.
The Underground Infrastructure Team, part of the Division of Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue, is working with experts in Colombia and a Japanese equipment company to develop a system that replaces pipe without leaving any asbestos cement particles from the original pipe.
William Crossley, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics, developed an approach that uses an operations-based model to predict emissions of future airline operations, depending on varying demand scenarios, improvement of aircraft technology, levels of biofuel utilization, and effects of biofuel pricing on what passengers pay for tickets.
Huey-Jen Jenny Su, president of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, is leading a delegation that will visit Purdue University's campus Aug. 29-30 to celebrate the 70-year friendship between the two institutions.
The project to transform a 1920s-era West Lafayette home into the DC Nanogrid House began in 2017 under the direction of Eckhard Groll, the William E. and Florence E. Perry Head of Mechanical Engineering, and member of Purdue’s Center for High Performance Buildings.
Purdue Engineering Graduate Programs is hosting the Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase, a premier graduate recruitment event, Sept. 25-26.
Elsje Pienaar, assistant professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is developing computational models across multiple time and spatial scales, designing new methods of analysis and testing model predictions experimentally by using a mini-genome replica of the Ebola infection.
How can research in solar energy harvesting and electrified chemical synthesis contribute to defossilization?
David Kish, director of Flex Lab and Kepner Laboratories at Purdue, was recently named a Fellow of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) with the Indiana Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE) bestowing the honor concurrently.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” October session will take place on Wednesday, October 12, with opening remarks at 11:30 am.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” November session will take place on Wednesday, November 2, with opening remarks at 11:30 am.
Come learn about what Purdue has to offer in semiconductor degrees and courses. Hear from industry leaders about careers and other opportunities in semiconductors. This event is open to engineering and non-engineering students.
The “Celebrating Our Associate Professors” September session will take place on Wednesday, September 14, with opening remarks at 11:30 am.
Mentoring circles are structured with two current faculty members serving as mentors and four to six graduate students and postdocs as mentees.
David Spencer, adjunct professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is developing a commercial product line of drag sails through his startup, Vestigo Aerospace.
Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, has been invited to participate in the 2022 Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference.
Jeffrey Youngblood, professor in materials engineering and EEE by courtesy, has developed green cellulose nanomaterial (CN)-based layers and associated manufacturing processes to help preserve foods.
“This is the first work showing optical initialization and coherent control of nuclear spins in 2D materials,” said corresponding author Tongcang Li, associate professor of physics and astronomy and electrical and computer engineering.
Bumsoo Han, a professor of mechanical engineering, has been developing engineered tumor-stroma models using genetic engineering, microfluidics and 3D-printing technologies.
Conflict and complementation between agile methods and systems analysis in developing and maintaining software-intensive systems
The MOU to transform IUPUI includes the creation of a joint biosciences engineering institute to harness the power of the universities' collective academic and research strengths and ongoing collaboration between Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Indiana University's School of Medicine.
Trask Innovation Fund, Proof of Concept Fund finance projects to improve food packaging, antibacterial therapeutics, machine learning and battery technology.
Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has received the prestigious Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant to support his cancer biology research.
Kevin Gococo Ng, an undergraduate student in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, received a Best Symposium Presentation Award at the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) symposium.
Join us for a bilateral dialogue among academic, industry, and diplomatic leaders from the U.S. and Australia. This inaugural dialogue will focus on key aerospace technologies and technology implications for misinformation and disinformation.
Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the first monthly installment of the “Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy” lecture series from 4-5 p.m. ET on Aug. 30 in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. Registration is now open for “Clean Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future,” which will provide an overview of nuclear reactor technologies.
A Purdue Engineering team will collaborate with the lead institution University of New Hampshire, NASA and the University of Alabama to explore a new paradigm in manufacturing for the equitable commercialization, industrialization, and democratization of in-space manufacturing.
Purdue University and Duke Energy are jointly exploring the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the West Lafayette campus long-term energy needs. The Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy lecture series is designed for all audiences from industry experts to community members. All events will be presented in a hybrid format for both in-person and virtual attendance and RSVP is required.
A unique library of computer code, built on equations derived for quantum mechanics, could be used to model problems as diverse as the flow of electrons through a nanoscale device or the price of copper in a commodities market.
David Umulis, professor and the Dane A. Miller head of Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is examining how artificial intelligence can help in human longevity.
Katherine Gasaway, a current doctoral candidate in the College of Engineering’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was an intern at Northrop Grumman in 2016, where she helped the team working on the structural testing of one of the carbon fiber sun shield beams.
The School of Civil Engineering has taken delivery of a new SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle that will serve as a research platform.
Yiheng Feng, assistant professor of civil engineering, will lead testing of the car, including developing and testing smart transportation applications such as autonomous driving, cooperative perception, smart intersection management and cybersecurity.
How do you get humans and autonomous systems to work together as a cohesive team? How do you quantify trust between humans and autonomous systems in such teams? For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), these are critical questions to be answered.
Tahira Reid Smith, associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, has been named an “emerging leader” by the Society of Women Engineers.
How does an airplane stay in the air? Whether you’ve pondered the question while flying or not, it remains a fascinating, complex topic. Here’s a quick look at the physics involved with an airplane’s flight, as well as a glimpse at a misconception surrounding the subject, too.
We are pleased to invite you all to the Summer 2022 SURF Symposium, scheduled for July 28th (Thursday) and 29th (Friday) at Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC).
Makarand (Mark) Hastak term of office lasts for three years until the General Assembly in 2025. In his acceptance speech he paid tribute to Keith Hampson, the outgoing President, and his energy and infectious enthusiasm despite a period of mainly online interactions.
A decade after publishing “An empirical study of the robustness of inter-component communication in Android," Saurabh Bagchi, Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science (by courtesy), along with a team of two PhD alumni and a researcher formerly at IBM Research, won a Test of Time award at the 52nd International Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).
The announcement Wednesday (July 20) by SkyWater Technology that it plans to open a $1.8 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Discovery Park District at Purdue University marks a huge step forward for the American semiconductor industry, Purdue’s thriving innovation district and the university’s continued emergence as one of the principal drivers of the Indiana economy.
Every week on Thursdays from noon to 1 pm, the Purdue AAARCC holds a Lunch & Learn program featuring faculty members, staff members, and students from Purdue who will present on a diverse array of topics from their area of expertise. After the presentation, participants can enjoy lunch and network with attendees of the program.
Laura Blumenschein was chosen for her work on the Vine robot project, a growing robot inspired by the growth and adaptability of plants.
A team of five Purdue engineering students won this year’s FAA Challenge by demonstrating how a successful air taxi service will need to manage their electricity needs.
Investigators from Purdue’s School of Industrial Engineering and Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis are researching how wearable sensors can facilitate modeling and assessment of surgery teamwork.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a total of $3.05 million to three Purdue Engineering faculty through its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP).
Shelley Claridge is one of 10 recipients of the award, which provides $500,000 a year, paid through their institution, for up to five years to help support part of a research group.
Purdue University President-elect Mung Chiang will meet and engage with faculty, staff and students at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, including listening to every tenure-track/tenured, clinical and research faculty.
Industrial Engineering Professor Mario Ventresca's approach assumes a system is composed of a set of nodes — in supply chain, each with a specialized task — that are able to interact with one another according to one or more rules and actions.
A goal for the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE) is to develop innovative dynamic (in-motion) wireless power transfer technology.
A group of 25 PhD students and postdocs in engineering or related disciplines at U.S. research universities has been selected.
Virginia Booth Womack, a Purdue alumna and MEP director, received the DuPont Minorities in Engineering Award at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference on June 29.
The College of Engineering is partnering with MediaTek Inc., a leading global fabless chipmaker, to open the Midwest's first semiconductor chip design center, to be housed on Purdue's campus.
Young-Jun Son has been busy in his first month as the James J. Solberg Head of the School of Industrial Engineering.
Four years into a 30-year master plan, the $1 billion mixed-use development of housing, high-end manufacturing, and industry and research-driven partnerships is already an economic and commercial success.
Hosted at Purdue, the dual conferences will gather academicians, government and industry researchers, engineers, and students in manufacturing from around the globe to discuss the future of industry in the next decade.
The lecture series was announced at the first meeting of an executive advisory committee steering the joint exploration between Purdue and Duke Energy into the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the long-term energy needs of the West Lafayette campus.
Chad Jafvert, Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).
Mark Lundstrom, the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will begin the appointment July 1. He also served as interim during 2020 while Mung Chiang was on leave.
Guillermo Paniagua, professor of mechanical engineering, and Ivan Christov, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars.
Saurabh Bagchi, professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of computer science by courtesy, was selected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in May.
Hard tech -- technology that touches the hard stuff -- is gaining ground as technological advances are rewriting the economic equations, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, writes in a recent Forbes article.
The new online master's is an interdisciplinary degree focused on all aspects of microelectronics and semiconductors, with Purdue's top-ranked Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, its mechanical, materials, industrial and chemical engineering schools, and its environmental and ecological engineering division all deeply involved.
Hyowon "Hugh" Lee, associate professor from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, created the magnetically controlled microdevice that removes blood accumulating in the brain during a stroke.
The college-wide institute positions Purdue as a national leader in artificial intelligence at the interface of the virtual and physical worlds.
"This project took a kernel of data from another planet, and established that it is possible to turn these Martian perchlorates into solid propellants, which no one has ever done," said an ME student who worked on the project.
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded grants to three Purdue University research projects, including one led by a professor in materials engineering, selected in its 2021 DEPSCoR (Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) competition.
The university institute will unite faculty in overhauling pharmaceutical manufacturing with a goal of reducing costs and expanding access to innovative drugs emerging from biotechnology research.
The Purdue Board of Trustees announced June 10 its unanimous election of Dr. Mung Chiang, currently the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and executive vice president for strategic initiatives, as the university’s next president. Chiang will replace current president Mitch Daniels effective Jan. 1, 2023.
Santiago Torres Arias, assistant professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, uses techniques ranging from applied cryptography to computer systems engineering, data science, trusted hardware and regulatory/legal compliance enforcement to stop cyberattacks.
A delegation of students from the School of Nuclear Engineering recently traveled to the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis to support small modular reactors.
Through integration of aerial and ground-based mobile mapping sensors and systems, a team of Purdue digital forestry researchers has used advanced technology to locate, count and measure over a thousand trees in a matter of hours.
Medical providers currently lack standard imaging biomarkers to forecast cardiomyopathy's early onset or developmental pace. To facilitate those diagnoses, BME's Craig Goergen and IU's Larry W. Markham have developed an innovative method to measure strain in three dimensions.
BME's Nan Kong and School of Nursing's Nicole Adams' are working on a digital health platform, including a dashboard that displays the visitation priority of each patient subscribing to this digital health service.
A silk tag with a QR code is a security measure that could reveal if whiskey is fake. Developed by biomedical engineers from Purdue University and the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in South Korea, a smartphone can scan the tag to confirm the drink's authenticity.
The West Lafayette Smart City Challenge called on startups and student teams to develop a scalable Internet-of-Things solution or software application to improve safety for vulnerable road users during high-trafficked periods.
In a recent Forbes article, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, makes that point and addresses a related question: "Can teaching be agile?"
Join the Purdue Division of Construction Engineering and Management, the Walsh Group, and the Purdue for Life Foundation for an evening of networking with fellow construction-industry Boilermakers in Chicago! Enjoy the festive atmosphere and Latin-fusion cuisine of Carnivale while you connect with fellow alumni in the Tango Room.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has formed the Accelerating Microelectronics Production & Development (AMPD) Task Force, and Mark Lundstrom will participate in the task force designed to tackle the global microchip shortage.
Very few organizations have ever launched a liquid methane rocket. Launching the same methane rocket twice in one weekend? That singular honor belongs to Purdue Space Program.
Two professors in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are part of a project to develop the world’s first contactless wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment.
Purdue’s Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center (RESEC) and the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) will co-host the Engineering of Sport 14 conference June 6-9 at Ross-Ade Stadium.
Purdue’s Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center (RESEC) and the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) will co-host the Engineering of Sport 14 conference June 6-9 at Ross-Ade Stadium.
U.S. economic security critically depends on developing talent pipeline in this vital field.
The U.S. Small Business Administration recognized Klein Ileleji as the Indiana and the Great Lakes Region Exporter of the Year.
Students across the College of Engineering are contributing to the largest solar sail project ever to be deployed.
A group of undergraduate students from the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering participated in Plant the Moon and Plant Mars challenges, competitions hosted by NASA’s Artemis Program seeking understanding of how scientists can grow crops for future space missions.
Destiny White didn't set out to be the first Black woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from Purdue University's School of Nuclear Engineering, but on May 13, she did just that.
The College of Engineering will again host its popular Trailblazers in Engineering (TBE), to be held July 26-28 on the West Lafayette campus.
The Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration will be the setting for the May 25 event, "Celebrating Discovery Park District." The area is fast becoming one of the most connected innovation communities in the nation.
Ernie Carr, of Winter Garden, Fla., earned his Purdue master’s degree in interdisciplinary engineering with a concentration in systems engineering while working as a senior integration and test engineer at Lockheed Martin. He is among a group of students who on May 16 received their degrees from Purdue College of Engineering’s online master’s program.
The Principal Director for Autonomy, the National Security Innovation Network, the Purdue Center for Innovation in Control, Optimization and Networks and The Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy are hosting an upcoming "Summit on Trusted Autonomy Research & Technology" event.
The College of Engineering will recognize the significant career achievements of two of its alumni by bestowing honorary doctor of engineering degrees.
April is National Soy Month, making it a good time to explore and celebrate the versatile uses of the soybean. Many foods are derived from soybeans, including soy milk, miso paste, tempeh, tofu and edamame.
In a recent Forbes article, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, presents engineering-medicine collaboration is a catalyst for progress in both of these areas.
Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College are partnering to help meet the future workforce needs in microelectronics, a field that is expected to add more than 100,000 workers over the next decade.
The College of Engineering will lead one of the four 2022 Advanced Manufacturing Technology Roadmap Program projects launched by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology in April and will be a key partner in another such project.
More than 500 students represented 70-plus teams at the event, which featured Purdue Engineer Joe Watkins as a keynote speaker.
Fifteen College of Engineering educators were honored at the 2022 Faculty and Lecturer Excellence Awards Banquet on April 22 in the Kurtz Atrium at Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. It was the 20th year for the event.
Barrett Caldwell will be inducted during the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, held May 21-24 in Seattle.
Purdue Engineering students, faculty, staff and alumni ran a 20.22-mile relay race to help support student organizations on Purdue Day of Giving.
The National Science Foundation awarded James Gibert, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, a five-year, $600,000 CAREER grant.
Robert J. Frosch is senior associate dean of the College of Engineering, executive director of strategic initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research & Partnerships and professor of civil engineering.
With interest rising worldwide in new technologies that are reliable and carbon-free, Purdue and Duke Energy intend to study power produced through Small Modular Reactors, a move that may be unprecedented for a college campus and a potential fit for Purdue's energy needs.
Yoon Yeo leads a Purdue team developing biocompatible nanoparticles that treat sepsis systemically through intravenous injection.
Cheer on your fellow Boilermakers as they each run 2.022 miles on #PurdueDayOfGiving for a relay run. Join us for a block party celebrating the conclusion of the run at 2 pm at the Gateway Arch.
The College of Engineering is hosting an inaugural engineering design showcase. Teams from all engineering programs and majors will be represented.
Patented and patent-pending technologies developed by CE's Joe Sinfield enhance methods to detect, identify and quantify chemicals in a range of natural, industrial and consumer settings.
The intersection of the Virtual/Physical in Dealing with Societal Grand Challenges. Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellows will address critical needs for society that lie at the interface of virtual and physical.
Chad Jafvert, Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, has been honored by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists.
For Yung-Hsiang Lu, improving the energy efficiency of computer technology to provide real-world benefits has been a lifelong focus.
A paper entitled "Long-range Cooperative Resonances in Rare-Earth Ion Arrays inside Photonic Resonators," published in Communications Physics, explores a new paradigm for enhanced light-mater interactions in solids.
Harsha Honnappa, assistant professor of industrial engineering, will lead his team in a study titled "Towards a Data-Driven Service Engineering Methodology" with the prestigious award.
Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is among a diverse group of 80 exceptional individuals in the 2022 class, which was chosen from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants.
Registration at bit.ly/GradPintNight.
7-9PM: Students receive a meal and a pint.
9-10PM: Fireside chat with Dean Mason and prize give-away.
Twenty-two students spent time networking and visiting a variety of Silicon Valley-based tech companies and startups as part of ENGR 10301 Intro to Silicon Valley and the Tech Industry.
ASME is here to help you perfect your technical engineering skills while also giving you everything necessary to get an edge in the competitive professional world. Join us on Thursday, April 7 from 6:30-7:30pm in WALC 3148 for our professional development E-week event hosted by Engineering Fellow and former ASME President Marcus Lannie. Marcus has landed 4 internships, grown ASME from 10 to 300+ members, and serves as Chairman of the Board at ASME. In this professional development event, he will include all the best ideas that aren’t taught in school from his MMM video series and will focus on helping engineering students maximize their experience at Purdue!
AAE's William Crossley and ECE's Milind Kulkarni were named Murphy Award winners and ME's Beth Hess earned the Excellence in Instruction Award for Lecturers.
An eco-friendly soy-based face mask, a system to reduce food waste, a greener campus infrastructure initiative, and apps to optimize study plans and find study spots – these student innovations received honors and support in the College of Engineering’s inaugural Purdue Pitch Competition.
Purdue University's College of Engineering is No. 4 for the second consecutive year in overall national rankings of graduate engineering programs in the new U.S. News and World Report rankings.
ABE's Somali Chaterji is working on rightsizing computation, decentralizing ML training (federated learning) and approximating inference for computer vision and robotics workloads.
Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, was one of two young professionals selected by The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) as a Young Leaders Professional Development Awardee for 2022.
The Indiana Life Sciences Manufacturing 2022 Summit, organized by the Purdue Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals Alliance, was held March 11 in Indianapolis to promote life sciences manufacturing, research, education and business development throughout Indiana.
More than 2,700 transportation colleagues attended the 108th Purdue Road School and Transportation Conference & Expo on March 15-16.
PSEF members will be making pancakes for free in the Armstrong Atrium for all to enjoy!
Xiaoping Bao, assistant professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, has received a five-year, $547,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, is an authority in the field of perovskite solar cells.
The Purdue Engineering Presidents Council (PEPC) will be passing out goodie bags at the engineering fountain to celebrate the start of E-week! Come grab some treats and learn more about the events going on during E-week.
AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, and AAE's Wenbin Yu are conducting research to create a tool for tailorable composite materials.
Two seniors in the School of Mechanical Engineering took the national stage to tout their startups during Opportunity Hub (OHUB)’s HBCU@SXSW pitch competition on March 11 at Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas.
Andrew Whelton, a professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, has been regularly showing up to wildfires with his students for the past four years.
The goal of the Early Discovery program in the Purdue College of Engineering is to empower promising underrepresented students at the freshman and sophomore levels to pursue research-intensive graduate study. The program is free for selected participants and will be held virtually.
The practice of engineering is undergoing a rapid revolution through the replacement of report-based practices with the data immediacy of the digital enterprise.
Purdue University will be one of a few universities in country to offer formalized sports engineering education, starting in fall 2022.
PurdueIE alumnus and VP of Operations for Tesla, Chris Lister, is coming to campus to talk about Tesla.
A new faculty member must be prepared to juggle research, teaching, and service responsibilities. But how exactly do graduate students make the leap from trainee to leader in a classroom or lab?
A machine can learn too much for the good of a system‘s owner - which could be a national government or a company - and society. NE‘s Hany Abdel-Khalik is collaborating with the Purdue University Center for Science of Information (CSoI) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to enhance AI and make it more secure.
Young Kim, an associate professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, developed a new anticounterfeiting technology to turn a smartphone into a lifesaver by simply taking a picture of a cyberphysical watermark and confirming if the medication is real or not.
The National Animal Health Laboratory Network and the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program has provided $1 million to Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue, for the project.
Purdue University will further research and development in critical areas of national security as a lead academic partner of a new pilot initiative with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
In the first 2 months of 2022, 6 Purdue Engineering professors received NSF CAREER awards for their research and teaching.
A patented Purdue University invention designed to cool sows and lower their respiration rate while farrowing has been licensed to Innovative Heating Technologies for further beta testing and commercialization. The cooling pads are developed by Robert Stwalley, clinical assistant professor in ABE, and Allan Schinckel, a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences.
In this Forbes opinion piece, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, describes exciting advances in the physical world at the interface between what we touch and what we code.
Purdue’s baseball team aims to be “the fastest show on dirt.” A partnership with Intel is helping the Boilermakers turn that aspirational motto into a realistic claim.
Wearables have been a "next big thing" in personal computing for several years now. From smartglasses to smartwatches and fitness trackers, computing devices have been growing smaller and more mobile, making it feasible to have one on us all the time.
Purdue faculty members recently received funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) for their coronavirus response project proposals.
Mahdi Hosseini, assistant professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Christopher Brinton, assistant professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a 2022 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Elsje Pienaar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the NSF’s division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience.
Brooke Beier has been promoted to senior vice president of commercialization at the Purdue Research Foundation. In addition to her current responsibilities in leading PRF's Office of Technology Commercialization, Beier will oversee the Purdue Foundry.
What’s new in university-industry collaboration? In Forbes, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, says there’s another win-win to this relationship: Piloting the deployment of new products and solutions.
Michael Sangid, the Elmer F. Bruhn Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will be executive director of the new Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center.
Saeed Mohammadi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is a co-investigator in a project that received $44,656 for "Detecting Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Leptospirosis in Urine."
MSE Professor Shriram Ramanathan published a paper in Science that shows a way that computer chips could dynamically rewire themselves to take in new data like the brain does, helping AI to keep learning over time.
A new study by Purdue University engineers and veterinarians explores how to convert off-the-shelf horse slickers into e-textiles that continuously monitor equine cardiac, respiratory and muscular systems for several hours under ambulatory conditions.
AAE sophomore Therese Malinowski was one of 51 undergraduate women chosen for the 2022 cohort of the nationally acclaimed Brooke Owens Fellowship that offers a 12-week paid internship, mentorship and networking.
Terrence Meyer and Guillermo Paniagua are part of a $10-million, five-year project selected by NASA's University Leadership Initiative, led by the University of Central Florida.
Sergey Macheret, professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was one of 28 newly elected Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Mark Lundstrom said almost every week he speaks with technology companies that are considering building a plant in various states, including Indiana, to manufacture microchips and other advanced systems.
Three Purdue University faculty members leading the way in engineering excellence have been elected to the distinction of Fellow by the world’s largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Finalists were awarded $15,000 to build new data-driven tools that increase public safety.
Professor Daniel DeLaurentis was among three distinguished experts added to the center's diverse and fast-growing team of Fellows.
Online engineering remains among the nation’s elite in the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Online Programs. The rankings have Purdue in the No. 1 spot in four specific categories, and the university’s full array of online engineering programs is at No. 3 for the second year in a row.
Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Kathleen Howell is on a team that will be tackling what is known as space domain awareness (SDA) as part of a $5-million grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory through its newly established Space University Research Initiatives (SURI) program.
Increasing energy conservation to mitigate the effects of climate change is a grand strategy with lofty goals that depends on continuous improvements to the energy efficiency of every powered device and activity. In Medium, ECE's Y. Charlie Hu discusses his new tool to measure battery saving.