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Funded research awards for January 2023.
Published: February 28, 2023
Equity is not about treating everybody the same. John Gates, Purdue’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion, says it’s about providing people what they need to succeed, even if that means treating people differently—and what we do innately in our lives is what we should do in...
Published: February 24, 2023
Come to class, build a guitar. In Purdue Polytechnic, a college that strongly emphasizes hands-on learning, is it any wonder that Professor Mark French’s “guitar lab” course is a student favorite?
Published: February 21, 2023
Purdue Polytechnic graduate research assistants Rey (Alex) Gonzalez, Yifei Hu and Damin Zhang are members of a student research team competing in Amazon’s international Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that assist customers in...
Published: February 21, 2023
An interdisciplinary team of Purdue Polytechnic researchers received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to study how teams of humans and robots will work together at construction sites. The team hopes the NSF grant will serve as the foundation for years of collaborative research to improve...
Published: February 17, 2023
Angel Price, senior manager of engineering services at Walt Disney World Resort, dreamed of a career in the entertainment industry working in special effects. She found her way into our Mechanical Engineering Technology major and then to an internship at Disney — leading to a full-time...
Published: February 13, 2023
An effort to facilitate collaboration and research related to cyberinfrastructure (CI) has been awarded $7.5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The effort was conceived by a national team of researchers including Purdue Polytechnic’s Paul Parsons.
Published: February 07, 2023
Purdue Polytechnic’s Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar has been named a recipient of Purdue’s 2023 Jefferson Award.
Published: February 02, 2023
Funded research awards for December 2022.
Published: January 31, 2023
When a childhood medical issue with his eyesight delayed his plan to become an airplane pilot, Hudson Tsang learned there’s more than one way to fly. He discovered that Purdue Polytechnic’s unmanned aerial systems major is a perfect fit.
Published: January 31, 2023
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate in the Airport Cooperative Research Program’s University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. Students from Purdue have placed first, second and/or third in one or more competition categories every year since 2014.
Published: January 16, 2023
Funded research awards for November 2022.
Published: December 31, 2022
A new partnership with a national college outreach and youth leadership development organization gave Purdue Polytechnic's Nah’Shon Williams, who is majoring in construction management technology, the chance to become a Boilermaker. Williams and 10 other first-year students were...
Published: December 20, 2022
Purdue Polytechnic’s Sudip Vhaduri and Siva Sahitya Simhadri received the best paper runner-up award at the IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) conference for their research into audio-based health monitoring...
Published: December 12, 2022
Purdue Polytechnic’s Toni Munguia was named a recipient of the 2022 Special Boilermaker Award for her dedication to Purdue. The award honors Purdue faculty and staff members who have contributed significantly to improving the quality of life and/or the betterment of the educational...
Published: December 12, 2022
Purdue Polytechnic’s Brittany Newell and Jose Garcia-Bravo and their colleagues created a novel wet-mixing method that allows for embedding sensors within the structure of 3D-printed parts. Their patent-pending method will aid industry in manufacturing functional parts.
Published: December 09, 2022
Funded research awards for October 2022.
Published: November 30, 2022
Markell Jones, a 2019 graduate from Purdue Polytechnic’s professional flight program, was named Mr. Football in Indiana as a high school senior and became number 6 in all-time rushing yards for the Purdue Boilermakers before becoming a pilot for Piedmont Airlines.
Published: November 28, 2022
Purdue Polytechnic’s Tatiana Ringenberg earned the title of “Boilermaker” four times — as an alumna with bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees, all from Purdue, and now as a faculty member in the Department of Computer and Information Technology.
Published: November 21, 2022
Purdue Polytechnic’s John Sheffield was named a winner of Purdue’s 2022 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award.
Published: November 19, 2022