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Dr. Nathan Hartman, Dauch Family Professor of Advanced Manufacturing.
Nathan Hartman is an active promoter of innovative problem-solving in the classroom, the research lab and in the wider world of industry, as his alma mater North Carolina State recently recounted.
Published: June 21, 2023
Visitors at a previous Aviation Community Day in Indianapolis sat in aircraft cockpits for photos
The public is invited to attend the 5th annual Aviation Community Day at the Aviation Technology Center in Indianapolis, a free, family-friendly event. Pilot a flight simulator, tour the school and facility, and climb aboard aircraft on display for photos in the cockpit.
Published: June 07, 2023
Cathy Pullings (left), the winner of multiple staff awards, is pictured along with Polytechnic's dean and Antonia Munguia, director of the recruitment, retention and diversity office.
Read about the plethora of award-winning faculty and staff within the Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University's college for innovation in technology.
Published: May 18, 2023
The electromyography mouse invention on display at the Design and Innovation Challenge.
Students from Purdue Polytechnic collaborated with their peers in anthropology and business management to create practical products and compete for money in the Design and Innovation Challenge.
Published: May 16, 2023
(Left to right) Andrew Nelson, Mitchel Mayer, Max Imler, Emily Laux and Taylor Jackson from the Endress and Hauser group.
During last spring's Tech Expo, Purdue Polytechnic seniors in the School of Engineering Technology showcased many ways they've "learned by doing" through projects for international industry partners to solve real-world engineering problems.
Published: May 15, 2023
Patrick Harrington, Tippecanoe County prosecutor, views an analysis of digital evidence created by the FileTSAR+ forensic tool. Purdue University researchers improved the original tool by simplifying its functionality and packaging to make FileTSAR+ easier and more cost-effective for law enforcement agencies to set up and maintain. (Purdue Research Foundation photo/Steve Martin)
Professors in Purdue Polytechnic’s Department of Computer and Information Technology have released FileTSAR+, a digital forensic evidence analyzer. It’s a streamlined version of the original FileTSAR (Toolkit for Selective Analysis and Reconstruction of Files), providing law...
Published: May 12, 2023
Strimel has made it a point to involve his students in research and design processes, which has led to the creation of the design and innovation minor. (Purdue University/The Persistent Pursuit)
Greg Strimel, a Purdue Polytechnic Institute professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation, told The Persistent Pursuit that his students choosing to nominate him for a teaching award "means everything" to him.
Published: May 11, 2023
Bryan Hubbard, nominated by his students to be a Murphy Award winner, teaches a course in the School of Construction Management Technology.
Bryan Hubbard, professor of construction management, is one of two Purdue Polytechnic faculty to win 2023's Murphy Award, signifying excellence in teaching. Learn more about how he got to where he is today.
Published: May 11, 2023
Gryphon Mawhorter, a rising senior in audio engineering technology, restrings his latest guitar in the "guitar lab" on Lambertus Hall's fourth floor.
Purdue Polytechnic's "guitar lab" remains one of Purdue's most popular courses. Gryphon Mawhorter’s lifelong passion for building guitars caught the attention of Mark French, who teaches the course. French appointed Mawhorter, a junior in audio engineering technology, to...
Published: May 09, 2023
Jose Garcia-Bravo, Robert Nawrocki and Brittany Newell
Purdue Polytechnic’s Jose Garcia-Bravo, Robert Nawrocki, Brittany Newell and Jinsheng Fan have combined 3D printing and electric poling into a single process known as the EPAM method. This innovation saves time and money, which has the potential to revolutionize the manufacturing of...
Published: May 09, 2023
Paul Asunda of Purdue University has a dual appointment in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and in the College of Education.
Purdue Polytechnic's Paul Asunda has been named a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar. He will partner on a project in Kenya designed to help Kenyan schools evaluate and modify how they teach STEM subjects to their students.
Published: May 03, 2023
WLHS students had the opportunity to receive mentorship from SMART Lab researchers and faculty, particularly on the final day hosted on the Purdue campus itself. (Photo provided by event programmers)
Area high school students got to learn about the latest and greatest innovations in robotics from Purdue Polytechnic's very own SMART Lab. As part of the week-long program, they got to pick the brains of faculty and research staff, even learning how Purdue's familiar delivery robots...
Published: May 01, 2023
A student driver prepares to test his team's electric go-kart.
High schoolers from all over Indiana recently converged at Allison Transmission's Demonstration Track in Indianapolis for an all-electric go-kart test session. For many of the teams joining Purdue's evGrandPrix "Test and Tune" events this season, this is their high school's...
Published: April 28, 2023
Pendleton Heights High School sophomore Jaxton Bush sits in an airplane as he talks to Vincennes University Director of Aviation Michael Dennis Gehrich during the high school's aviation day event. (Photo Credit: Richard Sitler for The Herald Bulletin)
More and more high schoolers are looking to become productive, tech-savvy workers in a fast time frame. Events like the Purdue Polytechnic Indianapolis-sponsored Aviation Community Day can help get these students onto that fast-track, much to the aviation industry's benefit.
Published: April 27, 2023
Bryn Hubbard
Purdue Polytechnic’s Bryan Hubbard developed a new heat exchanger technology to improve the thermal performance of industrial water-cooling towers. His new patented concept introduces a static electric charge into the plastic film pack media, which has the potential to increase the overall...
Published: April 26, 2023
Devon Harmon (left) and his team present advice to Tom Brew of Boilermakers Country.
Purdue Polytechnic's James Tanoos turned the tables on his students this semester by giving them the opportunity to be consultants. Students got to use their expertise learned in class and beyond to help two businesses, by and for Boilermakers, persistently pursue their goals with the latest...
Published: April 26, 2023
Area high school students attend Toyota's 4T Academy, their workforce training program attached to the students' Pathway
The Indiana Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC) has launched Pathways, a program designed to place the best and brightest high schoolers on job sites with the most high-profile manufacturing companies in the state. And it works: the Pathways have placed so many Hoosier engineers in full...
Published: April 24, 2023
The Purdue IronHacks logo
Talented data analysts went head-to-head last fall during Purdue’s IronHacks competition to predict unemployment claims across Indiana. Competitors used data provided by Purdue Polytechnic’s Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation alongside state government data. The...
Published: April 19, 2023
Dudley and Lambertus Halls, the Engineering & Polytechnic Gateway Complex.
Purdue Polytechnic and the College of Engineering celebrated the dedication of Dudley and Lambertus Halls, the Engineering & Polytechnic Gateway Complex. The state-of-the-art $140 million complex, built during the last three years, opened in January 2023. It is now home to new laboratories...
Published: April 19, 2023
Purdue Polytechnic in the news
Purdue University’s Board of Trustees approved promotions for faculty within the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, effective August 14, 2023.
Published: April 19, 2023

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