Six Purdue aviation technology student ambassadors and three recruitment staff members have been representing the department at the weeklong EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The group has a booth in the exhibit hall and is talking with thousands of guests about Purdue aviation programs as well as recruiting prospective students.
Air venture attracts nearly half a million enthusiasts every year.
Two construction management students who will start their Purdue careers this fall started racking up industry experience this summer as part of a new pre-freshmen internship experience.
Aviation students prepare for the 2015 Air Race Classic.
Spotter, a startup founded by two students in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, took top honors and $5,000 during "Demo Day" at the second annual Boiler Mini-Accelerator Competition.
Evan Axthelm, a junior in mechanical engineering technology, will bike across the country this summer as part of a program to build affordable housing. He will bike around 3,600 miles over the 15-day trip.
Aviation Technology’s Hangar of the Future team has been selected as a co-winner of Boeing Corporation’s inaugural Information Technology Case Competition for developing a software application design for use in object recognition.
Purdue University took the top two places at the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championship, a first for the competition.
Members of the Purdue chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) won several awards at the 2015 National Collegiate Conference in Omaha March 26-29.
Virtual reality games often cause simulator sickness – inducing vertigo and sometimes nausea - but new research findings point to a potential strategy to ease the affliction.
Over snowy ground in central Pennsylvania on March 7 and 8, Purdue students and ROTC cadets met a contingent of West Point cadets, band members, and officers for a “staff ride” to retrace the movements of American armies in the Battle of Gettysburg.
