The Department of Building Construction Management held its fall career fair Sept. 28. It attracted more than 100 companies, nearly 20 percent more than the Spring 2012 fair.
The Lafayette Journal and Courier article on this topic has been archived.
BCM faculty accolades
Yi Jiang in China
Construction in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a beautiful paradise where building construction management students have been given the opportunity to spend a Spring Break while experiencing the culture, construction and a service project. Spring Break 2012 consisted of travel to the Poas Volcano (the second largest crater in the world), La Paz waterfalls and park (where toucans ate out of our hands) and a coffee plantation.
CAC learns from Coach Keady
Gene Keady, former Purdue men’s basketball coach, shared his philosophy on leadership with the members of the BCM Construction Advisory Council (CAC) this fall. The Fall 2012 CAC meeting was in the Spurgeon Club in Mackey Arena, and members enjoyed meeting and hearing Coach Keady speak from the floor of the basketball arena.
Keady’s leadership presentation highlighted three principles:
BCM adds second Ms. Fix-it Badge opportunity
Women In Construction Management (WICM) is very active in community service, networking within the industry and providing social outlets to its members. WICM’s community outreach event is Girl Scout Day. The event, usually hosted in the fall, attracts approximately 100 central Indiana Girl Scouts to Purdue and the Building Construction Management Construction Lab to earn their Ms. Fix-It Badge. They must complete eight activities to earn it.
Twenty-nine computing students headed to Grace Hopper computing conference
Twenty-nine Purdue students are headed to the country’s largest technical conference for women in computing Oct. 3-6.
Four receive September Good to Great awards
Four College of Technology faculty and staff were recognized by Dean Gary Bertoline Sept. 21 as the most recent recipients of the Good to Great award.
The September winners were the staff members of the Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) for their work in increasing the number of degree programs offered and the amount of revenue generated.
Recipients were:
EnerDel expands research partnership with College of Technology
Indiana-based EnerDel Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and energy storage systems, is expanding its relationship with Purdue University’s College of Technology with a gift of lithium-ion battery technology, research data and technical expertise to train students in the latest energy storage technologies for electric vehicles and the electric grid.
Student research on astronaut restraints published in JPUR
As part of their senior design course in aviation, three students undertook a project to design an electronic personal restraint system for NASA astronauts to use in microgravity environments. The design, created by Kevin Tait, Justin Lewis and Justin Hickel, would allow an astronaut to walk along a surface while being electromagnetically restrained to it. The system would also release the user in the event of power failure.
Tech Ventures, Facebook’s Open Compute Project to spark student ingenuity
In its first sponsored competition with a university, Facebook has partnered with Tech Ventures, a technology commercialization program in Purdue University’s College of Technology, to sponsor a student challenge through the Open Compute Project.
The Open Compute Challenge asks students to combine efficiency (minimizing the cost of waste and recycling) with sustainability. Participants will be charged with designing a biodegradable server chassis, which is the shell that holds all of the server components. Servers are typically replaced every four years.