Racecar driver Cory Clay, a mechanical engineering technology student at the Columbus, Indiana, location of Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute, got a chance to compete against legendary NASCAR driver Tony Stewart in a midget car race — and Clay took the checkered flag!
Organizational leadership grad fashions clothing design hobby into apparel company
While sidelined by an automobile accident for a few months, Danielle Render, a Purdue graduate who double-majored in organizational leadership and multidisciplinary engineering, transformed her “side hustle,” a clothing design hobby, into a growing full-time business.
Munguia serving on Equity Task Force steering committee
Toni Munguia, Purdue Polytechnic’s director of recruitment, retention and diversity, is serving on the steering committee for the Purdue Equity Task Force, which is focusing on structural and environmental barriers to the success of students, faculty, and staff of color.
Polytechnic professors deliver Protect Purdue-related research
Purdue Polytechnic’s Sabine Brunswicker, Soowon Chang, Dominic Kao and Alejandra Magana participated in short-term research projects related to how universities adapted to the pandemic.
Underground weather forecast: 0% chance of stink
A utility company turned to Purdue Polytechnic’s Jason Ostanek and Luis Maldonado to deal with the potential of foul-smelling air near ground-level ventilation shafts for the DigIndy Tunnel System, a 28-mile network of huge sewage storage tunnels 250 feet below Indianapolis.
Polytechnic research awards - December 2020
Funded research awards for December 2020.
Duval-Couetil receives highest honor from U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Nathalie Duval-Couetil, professor of technology leadership and innovation, was honored with two awards from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, including their highest accolade.
Purdue Polytechnic receives support from major technology companies for Smart Manufacturing program, facilities
Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute is receiving support from major technology companies for the college's Smart Manufacturing program and facilities. Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, PTC, Endress+Hauser, Foundry Educational Foundation, International Society of Automation, and the US-DoE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) are collaborating to support the Polytechnic’s faculty and staff as they transform learning to prepare the next generation of graduates specializing in 21st-century manufacturing technologies.
Design and Innovation Challenge goes virtual
Purdue Polytechnic’s Design and Innovation Challenge, a showcase for students to incorporate human-centered design during the creation of working prototypes of new products, went virtual in 2020.
Empowering designers to build ethical awareness into technology
Colin Gray, assistant professor of computer graphics technology and director of Purdue’s UX Pedagogy and Practice Lab, and a team of researchers including Shruthi Chivukula, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant, are studying practitioners’ experiences and attitudes around ethics in the design of technologies. They’re also aiming to help future designers and technologists be more effective “everyday ethicists.”