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Funded research awards for February 2019.
Published: March 28, 2019
Dawn Laux, associate department head and clinical associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, has been named a recipient of Purdue’s 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Published: March 25, 2019
The creative and ill-structured nature of graphic design tasks creates difficulty in terms of assessment validity and reliability. Further, best practices in teaching and assessment are hampered by issues around scalability and efficiency. Finally, increasingly validated indications that good...
Published: March 25, 2019
HapTutor-Lab: Promoting Complex Learning in STEM Domains through Intelligent Tutors and Haptic Feedback.
There has been a breakthrough in recent years concerning artificial talking head agents that can have a conversation with the human learning in natural language in the form of...
Published: March 25, 2019
Drs. Bartholomew & McGraw and Mr. Charlesworth hypothesize that some of the struggles with data-driven decision-making instruction stem from the lack of context and real-world application for students (Merrill, Custer, Daugherty, Westrick, & Zeng, 2009). Further, they believe that placing...
Published: March 25, 2019
Students, faculty and staff have been settling in to the Bechtel Innovation Design Center (BIDC), a state-of-the-art collaborative learning facility which opened in September 2017.
Published: March 20, 2019
Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology announced a new “Degree in 3” initiative that would allow select professional flight students to start their degree early this summer and complete the traditional four-year program in three years.
Published: March 19, 2019
The School of Construction Management Technology hosted a joint meeting of the Indiana Society of Healthcare Engineering with the Purdue chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering in January.
Published: March 18, 2019
FileTSAR, an all-in-one cybersecurity toolkit developed by Purdue Polytechnic researchers and their colleagues, is helping detectives dust for digital fingerprints.
Published: March 15, 2019
Byung-Cheol “B.C.” Min, assistant professor of computer and information technology, was honored with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his work related to human-robot interaction and multi-robot systems.
Published: March 15, 2019
Two teams of Purdue students were honored for ground-breaking, socio-technical ideas to combat the criminal enterprise of human trafficking. They developed their solutions during Purdue Polytechnic’s “Design Innovation Challenge: Fight Human Trafficking in the Americas.”
Published: March 14, 2019
Bedrich Benes, Hao Kang and corporate researchers developed a touch-screen method to fly unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and take pictures with drone-mounted cameras.
Published: March 14, 2019
Although computers are vital to everyday life, natural communication between humans and computers lags behind other technological advancements. Julia Rayz, associate professor of computer and information technology, is conducting research to make artificial intelligence (AI) smarter when it comes...
Published: March 07, 2019
Construction of new classroom and lab space for Purdue Polytechnic workforce development programs in downtown Muncie, Ind., is progressing at the new Madjax facility.
Published: March 07, 2019
Funded research awards for January 2019. Bolded names are Purdue Polytechnic faculty or staff; starred names are the principal investigators.
Published: February 27, 2019
Marcus Rogers, professor of computer and Information technology, was elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).
Published: February 21, 2019
The Purdue Polytechnic Richmond family mourns the loss of Wayne Barker. Mr. Barker was one of the originators of the first statewide technology programs at Richmond (then on the campus of Earlham College), and he founded the Purdue Mechanical Engineering Technology program in Elkhart.
Published: February 19, 2019
With the addition of a Hawker 900XP full-motion, Level D flight simulator in Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology, Purdue is becoming the only university in the nation to offer jet-type training integrated in a bachelor of science degree program.
Published: February 19, 2019
The Purdue Technology Alumni Board (PTAB) supports the Purdue Polytechnic Institute by encouraging communication and mutual assistance with the college’s alumni base via programs, educational and professional growth, and networking opportunities. New this year, to complement their...
Published: February 14, 2019
Numerous faculty from Purdue Polytechnic who participate in research and programs at the Indiana Manufacturing Institute will be able to use the new Manufacturing Design Laboratory, a research space that will focus on infusing Purdue resources and statewide manufacturing expertise into digital...
Published: February 12, 2019