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Purdue University’s Board of Trustees approved promotions for 12 professors within the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, effective August 16, 2021.
Published: April 09, 2021
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.
Published: April 02, 2021
Mesut Akdere, professor of human resource development, and a colleague received the Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award.
Published: April 02, 2021
Funded research awards for February 2021.
Published: March 31, 2021
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...
Published: March 25, 2021
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.
Published: March 25, 2021
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.
Published: March 25, 2021
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”...
Published: March 18, 2021
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).
Published: March 18, 2021
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.
Published: March 16, 2021
Noah Jackson, senior in construction management technology, won first place in an essay competition that focused on innovation.
Published: March 15, 2021
Randy Rapp, associate professor of construction management technology, has been appointed the Professor of Restoration and Reconstruction.
Published: March 12, 2021
Purdue Polytechnic’s Rosemary Astheimer has published a new book. “Model-Based Definition in the Product Lifecycle” explores how industry benefits from using 3D CAD (computer-aided design) models during the process of designing and manufacturing products. A model-based...
Published: March 01, 2021
Sascha Harrell, director of workforce development and education for Purdue’s Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC), and Purdue Polytechnic’s Greg Strimel are collaborating on the creation of a long-term research project intended to study how industry...
Published: February 26, 2021
Purdue Polytechnic’s Byung-Cheol “B.C.” Min is leading a team designing SMARTBoat 5, an unmanned surface vehicle that removes harmful algae blooms from shorelines and waterways. The vehicle’s lightweight frame was built from 3D-printed parts and can be used in a variety of...
Published: February 26, 2021
Funded research awards for January 2021.
Published: February 25, 2021
Purdue Polytechnic’s Jiansong Zhang, assistant professor of construction management technology, and his team developed and are testing a novel construction robotic system that uses an innovative mechanical design with advances in computer vision sensing technology to work in a construction...
Published: February 22, 2021
Purdue Polytechnic graduates Ivan Ball and Scott Massey received the Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to advance their GroPod in-home greenhouse technology.
Published: February 21, 2021
Computer graphics technology students in Purdue Polytechnic who are learning about model-based design now have access to software that optimizes their designs for manufacturing, just as many of them might need to do during future careers in industry. The software takes a CAD (computer-aided...
Published: February 19, 2021
Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, associate professor of computer and information technology, fights crime using cyberforensics, a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to evidence found in computers and digital storage media.
Published: February 16, 2021