Purdue aviation team wins first place award for innovative, multifunctional airport luggage cart
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...
Maha Fluid Power 2024 tracks ‘research trends,’ provides support network across industry
“There is so much technology available to the modern workforce,” Purdue Polytechnic's Dean Castro said. “We give [students] the opportunity to use it all first-hand...
New patent by Polytechnic faculty to ‘help automate building construction’
Professor Zhang's new patent provides "insturctions to a robotic arm that places and fastens construction materials" directly onto buildings, which should massively speed up the...
Chad Laux honored with International Book of the Year Award for ‘Lean Sustainability’
Chad Laux received an international book award for "Lean Sustainability," a coauthored work of practical scholarship that seeks to bring innovative, environmentally-conscious...
Research explores importance of salons for identifying abuse, trafficking victims
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...
DigiTRACKER launches with seminar on human-AI collaboration in modular building production
The new DigiTRACKER center provides countless new opportunities for innovative research in all forms of built-environment applications. Read about the inaugural event here:
Collaborative game AI research wins award from intelligent systems journal
A work of collaborative research between Purdue Polytechnic graphics and information technology faculty and their grad students was recently awarded for their ability to use AI to generate new...
Engineering technology faculty secures third NSF Award, seeks to improve engineering education strategies
Farid Breidi in our School of Engineering Technology will soon commence a research project that seeks to use an augmented-reality learning environment to create totally unique, personalized...
Purdue Polytechnic research team receives $900,000 NSF award to research engineering, technology students’ problem solving, collaboration skills
Congratulations to Jin Wei-Kocsis for a truly sizeable grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more about her team's research topics, and what they hope to achieve:
Purdue Polytechnic faculty wins audience choice, best-in-show at SIGGRAPH 2024
Tim McGraw won over one of the largest conferences for computer graphics innovation not once, but twice thanks to his visually-stunning and humor-laced presentation, "Mesh Mortal Combat....