Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s competency-based education program has cleared its final hurdle, becoming the first baccalaureate program of its kind in the nation.

Two construction management professors have won top teaching awards from Purdue University.

Purdue Polytechnic students, alumni and faculty are all involved with the Indiana Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IN-ISAC), which includes a security operations center (SOC) in West Lafayette.

Mat Sutton, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation. He received the 2015 Dwyer Award for Undergraduate Teaching in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute. Students select the award winners.

Computer graphics technology students from Purdue University offered their solution to distracted driving due to smartphone use during a recent competition sponsored by Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE).

After attending a presentation on competency-based learning, Ray Hassan, a clinical assistant professor of computer graphics technology, decided to try Purdue’s Passport application.

Watching as her students texted relentlessly on their phones during class, Mihaela Vorvoreanu wondered if she could turn their compulsion into an educational asset.

The Big Ten Network has produced a one-minute video on the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s Hangar of the Future for its 2015-16 Live Big Series.

It highlights the way students and faculty are adding technology to hangar operations. The video includes interviews with graduate student Amadou Anne and Tim Ropp, clinical associate professor of aviation technology.

Six student projects designed to assist bakers, brewers, Boy Scouts, and more have received Commercialization and Research Grant (CRG) funding from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute Statewide.