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.
statewide innovation
Industry partners join IN-MaC's Pathway System to upskill young manufacturing professionals
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-time jobs that IN-MaC is expanding to more states.
CIT students in Columbus creating train traffic notification app
A significant increase in daily train traffic in Columbus, Indiana, is inspiring Purdue Polytechnic students to create an app and website which could help area drivers avoid congestion on the roads.
Purdue students’ innovation helps food bank fight hunger
Students at Purdue Polytechnic Anderson have developed a way for Second Harvest Food Bank to provide fresh produce year-round with their Seedstock senior project.
Purdue Polytechnic student creates thermoelectric grill
Bryan Miller designed an innovative thermoelectric grilling system which requires no external power supply as part of a senior design project at Purdue Polytechnic Kokomo.
Students drive innovation with electric go-kart labs, camps
The electric go-kart has been an educational fixture at Purdue Polytechnic South Bend for several years.
Making music made easier with student innovation: automated guitar tuner
Like so many inventors, Andrew Schnobrich simply wanted to solve a problem that was vexing him. As a guitar player, Schnobrich often struggles with tuning his guitar and then keeping it in tune. He is not alone.