Purdue Polytechnic faculty in multiple disciplines have been granted nearly $150,000 to generate new teaching modules for engineering technology students.

Two aviation professors who have been modernizing curriculum have unveiled their plan for a new avionics lab. This will put students in an experiential lab space, teaching them to work on critical flight control systems in the aviation industry.

Congratulations to three of our aviation students, who have just been awarded a prestigious scholarship!

Our senior students in aviation are generating novel methods to detect greenhouse gas levels during normal commercial flights, massively increasing the efficiency for making such measurements. Learn all about their invention in our newsroom:

Purdue Polytechnic is extending the learn-by-doing approach even further into the classroom, thanks to a new grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more:

Congratulations to Allison Boyd, an aeronautical engineering technology student who just became a 2024 Truman Scholar. Boyd joins a list of worldwide leaders who have been recipients, including Supreme Court justices, policy experts and public service heroes. 

The Persistent Pursuit reported on #PurduePolytechnic alumna Brittany Gallarneau. “I decided I wanted to fly when I was about 17,” she says. “My dad was my first flight instructor; he taught me while I earned my private pilot’s license.”

Purdue Polytechnic's CREATE lab has partnered with Flexjet, Inc. to create AeroSphere—an aviation facility providing students with a world-class education in aircraft maintenance and upkeep.

Luigi Dy, a doctoral student in Purdue Polytechnic, was awarded by the Transportation Research Board based in Washington, D.C. for his work in preventing incursions on aircraft runways.

The National Science Foundation has just issued its first-ever grant to Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology, funding the school’s large-scale AI and mixed-reality research project. Included are over a dozen industry partners and higher ed institutions.