Congrats to all of our student winners at the most recent Design and Innovation Challenge:

A group of students in our Construction Management Technology discipline are doing some amazing sponsored research into sustainable alternatives to current concrete formulas:

Congratulations to Dr. Tao! She was recently awarded two grants from the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) for research projects that will improve the holistic safety of our infrastructure.

Five engineering technology students are using a battery-powered toy as a platform to build a powered wheelchair for a child in the community:

We were glad to host visiting women from Tajikistan, all of whom are part of the Congressional Office of International Leadership. Read more to see their interests in recruiting women in their own higher education institutions, and what facilities they explored during their visit to Purdue Polytechnic:

Umit Karabiyik from our Department of Computer and Information Technology just received funding for a project that will have big implications in how law enforcement are trained to investigate crime scenes:

Purdue Polytechnic's Indiana Manufacturing Competitiveness Center just hosted a big group over two days to plan for the future of two massive (and still growing) programs that bring hands-on workforce preparedness to new generations:

Thank you to Richard Voyles for presenting at the most recent Dean's Lecture Series on his work in human-robot interaction!

Two School of Aviation and Transportation Technology grad students and their faculty advisor just won an award for a convenient, practical upgrade to the system used to move luggage around airports and runways. Read about how it works here:

Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar is a coauthor on a new study that shows how trafficking victims could turn the odds in their favor with the help of salon workers—their rare point of contact with the outside world. Read more about what Seigfried-Spellar and the team recommend: