This story was originally posted on 2/14/11.Scott Homan has been a professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision since 2001. He received his bachelor's degree from the program in 1988 and learned to love teaching while pursuing his OLS master's degree. After stints at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting, Texas A&M (where he also earned his Ph.D.), and Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho, he returned to Purdue and his current position.
Getting to know Bernie Wulle
This story was originally posted on 01/21/2011. Bernie Wulle, associate professor of aviation technology, came to Purdue in January 1992 from a job as a pilot for a Caribbean airline. He was familiar with campus and the aviation technology program, having earned a master’s degree in special education and started a flight training program with Lafayette Aviation at Purdue’s airport. Over the last 19 yeas, he has focused on being a teacher who can help his students succeed. He has won the Dwyer Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and the Outstanding Tenured Faculty Award.
OLS alumna plans for a living
This story was originally posted on 9/24/10.
Alum starts business based on remote-controlled snowplow
This story was originally posted on 02/16/2011.
Drazic leads F-35 Joint Strike Fighter final assembly team
This story was originally posted on 5/27/11.
Hacker receives NSF Career award
Six Purdue University faculty members, including Thomas Hacker, associate professor of computer and information technology, have won the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for outstanding young researchers in 2010. The Faculty Early Career Development awards range from $300,000 to $525,000 in research funding over four or five years. About 400 researchers win the awards annually. Purdue's 2010 recipients were Alice Pawley, Sanjay Rao, Thomas Hacker, Vijay Raghunathan, Luis Kruczenski and Lyudmila Slipchenko.