The 9th Annual TechPride Golf Scramble will take place September 14, 2012, on one of Purdue University’s award-winning golf courses.
The event, planned for the Pete-Dye-designed Kampen Course, raises money for scholarships for College of Technology students. It attracts alumni, faculty and staff, friends of the college and even a few students to play the 18-hole course.
Highlights of the event include:
Indiana high school students recently tackled the business plans necessary to move alternative energy companies from idea to successful realities.
As part of the Purdue Research Park Entrepreneurship Academy at Purdue University’s College of Technology at South Bend, three teams of high school students worked for a week on ideas to commercialize projects based on wind power, alternative aviation fuel, and fuel made from algae.
Why do air fares change so much?
Find out from Purdue alum David Ferrel, strategy analyst for American Airlines, and his colleagues in this video produced by the airline.
Ferrel earned his bachelor's degree in the flight program and his master's degree in aviation and aerospace management.
Watch the video featuring Ferrel.
Jeffrey A. Griffin, associate professor of computer and information technology, has been appointed interim director of Purdue University’s College of Technology at Kokomo. He will oversee operations at the Kokomo location while a nationwide search is made for a permanent director.
Andy Schaffer has been appointed associate dean for Statewide Technology at Purdue University. In addition to his responsibilities for the administration of Statewide Technology, Schaffer will lead the reengineering initiative for the nine College of Technology locations across Indiana. Schaffer replaces Duane Dunlap, who has been appointed associate dean for engagement for the college.
Schaffer was previously the director of the College of Technology locations at New Albany, Greensburg, Columbus, and Vincennes.
Michael Swain has been appointed director of Purdue University’s College of Technology at Richmond.
He will oversee operations for the location, which is headquartered in Tom Raper Hall on the Indiana University East campus.
The Lafayette Journal and Courier talked with Al Crispo, professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation, about stress in the work place during extended high unemployment.
"Today, with the economic conditions the way they are, companies are feeling stressed and they are turning it on the employees," he told the paper.
Read the full article.
Tyler Kupferer, director of award winning short-film “The Girl and the Fox,” says that Purdue experiences such as Martin Jischke's President's Leadership Program and the Digital Cinema Contest gave him the skills to be a successful director.
Kupferer is a 2008 graduate of the computer graphics technology program.
Cory Nguyen, a graduate student in computer and information technology, has received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. More than 3,000 people applied, but only 200 are chosen each year.
The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD) and is intended to increase the number of U.S citizens and nationals specializing in science and engineering aimed at military applications. Nguyen received his fellowship in the area of computer and computational sciences for his research in cyber and information security.
