The Women in Technology student organization will participate in two events during Women’s History Month in March.
As part of a campus wide celebration, WIT will take part in the University March in March, which will commemorate similar parades 100 years ago in support of women’s suffrage.
In addition, the women will take part in a nationwide effort to speak out and inspire more women to pursue careers in IT or other technology disciplines.
Purdue University's College of Technology at Anderson will host the fourth annual Academic Brain Bowl on Saturday, February 16, 2013, at the Flagship Enterprise Center beginning at 8:30 a.m. Local high school teams compete in an academic competition in order to win prizes and experience a day in a college setting.
The 2013 competition is the largest yet with 18 teams and 103 students.
Purdue University will be home to the first regional competition of the Phoenix Contact Nanoline Contest.
Bedrich Benes, associate professor of computer graphics technology, has received a Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Benes, who focuses on creating advanced computational simulations and visualizations using modern graphics processors, will study in the School of Materials Engineering. He will explore computational modeling and simulation within the materials sciences.
Chien-tsung Lu, associate professor of aviation technology, has received a Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline for the 2013-2014 academic year.
On Tuesday, January 22, members of the Minority Technology Association (MTA) will encourage all who pass through the Knoy Hall lobby to share their dreams for inclusion in an interactive collection of Purdue voices.
Julia Taylor, assistant professor of computer and information technology, was quoted in the New York Times (Jan. 4, 2013) in an article titled "Can Computers Be Funny?". Taylor's research focuses on natural language processing with a goal of enabling people to communicate with computers informally. Read the full New York Times article.
Purdue faculty, including Bill Hutzel, associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, will work with the University of the West Indies and Partners of the Americas to foster clean energy deployment across the Caribbean and Central America.
Building on expertise at the two universities, the project will develop a solar energy demonstration site at UWI's St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago. The U.S. State Department's Regional Environmental Office in San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs are funding the 18-month effort.
