For the 2023-24 academic year, 108 research projects were either initiated or received continuing funding within Purdue Polytechnic, altogether totaling over $16 million. Research grants represent a wide range of Purdue Polytechnic, including faculty across all academic departments as well as contributions from many graduate students listed as co-authors on many projects.
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Aviation senior project for sampling atmospheric emissions takes flight
Our senior students in aviation are generating novel methods to detect greenhouse gas levels during normal commercial flights, massively increasing the efficiency for making such measurements. Learn all about their invention in our newsroom:
Purdue in Indianapolis students collaborate to design and build low-cost neonatal medical devices for international use
Our Purdue Indy students are saving lives; mechanical engineering technology undergrads collaborated with faculty and Riley Children's Hospital to build a new kind of incubator that can be used in lower-income nations around the world. Read all about it here:
Polytechnic doctoral student, military test pilot wins Asst. Naval Secretary award for faculty support
Our doctoral students come from all walks of life—for instance, active-duty Naval test pilot Jonathon Parry, who just won an Assistant Naval Secretary award for top scientists and engineers. Learn more about Parry here:
Faculty win FAA grant to provide high-tech learn-by-doing programs for aviation educators
Purdue Polytechnic is extending the learn-by-doing approach even further into the classroom, thanks to a new grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Read more:
Tao made fellow in National Academies’ Offshore Energy Safety unit
Chengcheng Tao, a member of our Construction Management faculty, will be part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine as a new Fellow, researching offshore energy safety.
Barber-Dansby joins Duke, NSF-funded program to study inclusive computing education
Fay Barber-Dansby from Purdue Polytechnic in Anderson just became a two-year fellow on a team led by Duke University—she'll be studying ways to make computing education more inclusive for coming generations. Find out more:
Purdue in Indianapolis faculty wins newfound NSF award to combat influence of ‘deepfake’ AI tech
Congratulations to Shu Hu from Purdue Indy, whose National Science Foundation award will enhance our understanding of AI-enabled deepfake tech, and how to avoid being duped by it:
Purdue Teaching Academy appoints Newell, Turner from Engineering Technology
Congratulations to Brittany Newell and Matthew Turner, our engineering technology faculty who were just recently inducted into the Purdue University Teaching Academy for their excellence as classroom- and-lab educators.
Polytechnic faculty listed as leads on newly-granted optics patent
Congratulations to Jose Garcia Bravo and Brittany Newell for authoring a patent that will help many different areas of scientific research run experiments less expensively and with much greater efficiency.