A student organization focused on computing has created an endowed scholarship fund to help its members for years to come.
The Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP), a student organization in the College of Technology, recently set up the fund to offer additional assistance to members. Most of the funds came from AITP’s annual Computer Roundtable career fair.
Several College of Technology students, individually or as part of teams, will take part in the second annual BoilerMake hackathon Oct. 17-19.
Students at the Purdue College of Technology at Lafayette surprised their 90-year-old classmate, Jerry Cole, with a birthday party after a class tour at Subaru of Indiana Automotive Oct. 16.
After his Lean Manufacturing classmates sang to him, he proclaimed, "I wish we could stay in class together forever!" The celebration included a card and note from Purdue President Mitch Daniels.
A research team that includes computer graphics specialists from Purdue University has unveiled a new planet-wide system for estimating carbon dioxide emissions, a tool for tracking greenhouse gas emissions in climate studies.
The world was watching as Craig Lewis worked toward a very strict building deadline during his 2014 summer internship with Skanska in New York City. Skanska was in charge of one part of the renovation of the United Nations General Assembly, and it needed to be done by the opening of the 69th session Sept. 16. And as if the convergence of world leaders to the job site was not stressful enough, Lewis had to deal with a sudden promotion halfway through the job.
To provide students with better access to engineering technology processes, John Piller built 15 programmable logic controller (PLC) trainer stations for use at three College of Technology locations.
Purdue's College of Technology at South Bend is one of three pilot sites this fall for the Purdue Polytechnic Initiative. Purdue Polytech is designed to provide students competency-based, interdisciplinary instruction.
The Purdue University College of Technology at Anderson is a strong partner in helping Red Gold employees further their educations. Current Red Gold employees talk about their experiences studying in Purdue's organizational leadership program.
Videos of all 19 presentations of the Dawn or Doom event are now available online. The daylong symposium focused on the "New Technology Explosion" and was hosted on the Purdue University campus Sept. 18, 2014.
Two of the speakers during the day were from the College of Technology:
The Purdue College of Technology at New Albany hosted a Pumpkin Chunking competition as part of the area's Harvest Homecoming Oct. 7.
The News and Tribune covered the event, which featured several teams.
