Two Purdue research projects won awards at the 2015 University Aviation Association (UAA) Fall Education Conference in Snowbird, Utah.
Purdue alum honored to fly 'Shepherd One'
Tom Murray
Education: professional flight
Payoff: Murray was the first officer on all four legs of the chartered flight for Pope Francis’s tour of the United States in early October 2015. The assignment is the latest during a long career in the Air Force and at American Airlines. A decorated veteran of Desert Storm, he was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, where he was a C-141 Aircraft Commander. At American Airlines, he has been a captain on Boeing 727, 767, and 777 as well as the Airbus 300. He has also served as check airman and international standards coordinator on the Boeing 777 and Airbus 300.
CIT joins academic ranks of IIBA
The Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University has become an academic member of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)™, the world’s leading association for business analysis professionals.
Grant helps fund students' entrepreneurial ideas
Six student projects designed to assist bakers, brewers, Boy Scouts, and more have received Commercialization and Research Grant (CRG) funding from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute Statewide.
Communications Office offers personalized posters to admitted students
Recruitment communications for Fall 2016 incoming freshmen have been steady since last May.
Since the end of October, the college has also been in the admit phase of communications with the start of rolling admissions. For fall 2016, one piece of print communication sent to all domestic students admitted into the Polytechnic is the “TECHIES through TIME” poster.
Alumni profile: Matt High, mechanical engineering technology
Whether he is at a construction site or at the plant, Matt High works to keep Purdue up and running every day. High works at the Wade Utility Plant as a utilities mechanical engineer. The plant uses steam to generate electricity, heat and chilled water throughout campus.
Mixable saves CGT professor 'boatloads’ of time
With an average of more than 650 students enrolled across his classes, Professor Craig Miller says his daily email inbox was nearly insuperable.
The professor of computer graphics technology used to spend hours at a time responding to hundreds of homework and course housekeeping questions, such as how to access the CATIA CAD software suite or when certain assignments were due.
Improved technology aids criminals in brazen cyber attacks
Computer viruses and malware are obsolete scams for the latest wave of increasingly aggressive computer criminals, says a top cyber forensics expert at Purdue University.
Marcus Rogers, director of Purdue's Cyber Forensics Lab, said past reports of cyber attacks - allegedly by foreign nations - have opened the floodgates for computer criminals to launch their own illegal efforts.
Purdue looks for charter school leader
Purdue University promises a transformative education with its new charter school in Indianapolis. But can the institution find a leader to live up to that reputation?
Purdue announced last week it would begin a search for the "head of school" at Purdue Polytechnic Indianapolis High School, a charter school that will provide graduates with direct admission to the West Lafayette campus in an effort to increase the university's enrollment of first-generation, low-income students.