Purdue Polytechnic’s Anthony Sparkling and Ramyani Sengupta are studying how virtual reality technology could help experienced professionals and potential retirees in the construction industry more efficiently transfer knowledge to next-generation workers.
Akdere receives research excellence award
Mesut Akdere, professor of human resource development, and a colleague received the Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award.
Polytechnic research awards - February 2021
Funded research awards for February 2021.
Purdue Polytechnic teams with leading corporations for Smart Manufacturing Industrial Infomatics program
Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute has teamed with leading technology and manufacturing corporations, including Rockwell Automation, Caterpillar, General Mills and Microsoft, to launch the Smart Manufacturing Industrial Infomatics program. Additional partners include the Foundry Educational Foundation, International Society of Automation and the US-DoE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII).
Method to identify and store cloud-based forensic evidence patented by CIT team
Purdue Polytechnic’s Marcus Rogers, Umit Karabiyik and Fahad Salamh earned a patent for their method of automating the collection of cloud-based digital forensic evidence.
Astheimer’s courses use CADIQ assessments to teach the importance of exact replication
Students studying in Purdue Polytechnic’s virtual product integration program with Rosemary Astheimer are gaining experience with CADIQ, software that identifies differences in the 3D product models that students create compared to the models they were assigned to replicate.
Techies Today Episode 013: Abby Perez, Psychology+Design=UX
Abby Perez is a user experience engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In 2018, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Purdue Polytechnic’s UX Design program with a minor in psychology and a certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This episode of “Techies Today” includes interviews with Abby recorded several years apart.
Zhang investigating BIM technology to automate building code compliance-checking, modular construction
Inspectors check for compliance with building codes during construction projects. Purdue Polytechnic’s Jiansong “Jason” Zhang is researching how to automate code compliance-checking and modular construction by using building information modeling (BIM).
STEM Guitar honored with Gerhard Salinger award
STEM Guitar, a project led in part by Purdue Polytechnic’s Mark French, was honored with the Gerhard Salinger award by the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association.
CMT senior awarded first place in Associated General Contractors essay competition
Noah Jackson, senior in construction management technology, won first place in an essay competition that focused on innovation.