Purdue Polytechnic's School of Engineering Technology will dedicate four smart manufacturing facilities, the biggest learning ecosystem for future-focused manufacturing in the United States.

Hubo Cai, interim head of Purdue Polytechnic's School of Construction Management Technology, won the American Society of Civil Engineers' foremost award for groundbreaking research on 3D location tracking on construction sites.

The careers of Technology graduates can help place the discipline in context.

By Kim Medaris Delker

Technology is one of modern language’s most-used words. It also is one of the most vague and least understood.

Merriam-Webster defines “technology” as “the practical application of knowledge, especially in a particular area,” but that definition leaves a lot open to interpretation.

As the College of Technology’s December 2012 graduates complete their time at Purdue, we are profiling a few and finding out their future plans and how they arrived at this point in their lives. Commencement was December 16, 2012.

Benjamin R. Cox, West Lafayette, Ind.

In Process Control Professional Staff for Subaru of Indiana Automotive in Lafayette, Ind.

As part of their senior design course in aviation, three students undertook a project to design an electronic personal restraint system for NASA astronauts to use in microgravity environments. The design, created by Kevin Tait, Justin Lewis and Justin Hickel, would  allow an astronaut to walk along a surface while being electromagnetically restrained to it. The system would also release the user in the event of power failure.

Yuetian Wang, Shenzhen, China

Major: Electrical Engineering Technology

Activities

Association of Electrical Technologists (AET)
Soccer club

Daniel Golladay, Whitestown, Ind.

Major: Aeronautical Engineering Technology

My major

I love this stuff. I love working with my hands and being elbow deep in solvent, cleaning parts. It was what I was meant to do. The easiest explanation is I work on them and pilots fly them. I plan on being an airplane mechanic; I keep them running. They work you up the chain from your first year to getting an Airframe and Powerplant certification.

Zachery Baumgardner, New Paris, Ohio

Major: Engineering Technology

Colin Tancredi, Wallingford, Penn.

Major: Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Activities

Sigma Alpha Lambda leadership organization
Golden Key international academic honor society
Philosophy Club
Tarkington Hall staff
Wiley Hall community

Chad Kingsolver, Frankfort, Ind.

Major: Mechanical Engineering Technology

Activities

Intramural sports
Tau Alpha Pi honor society, engineering technology honor society