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September 2, 2025
NIEE welcomes new board members, announces leadership reappointments, and outlines strategic priorities
An update on leadership and organizational strategy from the National Institute for Engineering Ethics, a group administered by Purdue ENE and focused on advancing the understanding and practice of ethics within the engineering profession.
August 25, 2025
Purdue assistant professors—and partners—awarded NSF grant to shape future of AI-era software engineering education
ENE's Kirsten Davis and her husband, ECE's James Davis, have been awarded $350K in NSF funds to lead an innovative study on how software engineers can be better prepared for the age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).
July 9, 2025
NAE selects Morphew to attend prestigious national symposium
ENE Assistant Professor Jason Morphew is one of two Purdue faculty selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The annual event gathers 100 of the nation’s most promising early-career engineers to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and advance innovation.
July 3, 2025
ENE-authored article on team-related microaggressions wins ASEE’s best paper
Authored by ENE’s Stephanie Masta, Alice Pawley, Matt Ohland and colleagues, the paper “Is Carla grumpy? Analysis of peer evaluations to explore microaggressions and other marginalizing behaviors in engineering student teams" brings home the prestigious ASEE William Elgin Wickenden Award.
July 1, 2025
ENE's Kirsten Davis receives NSF Early Career recognition
The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award will support Assistant Professor Kirsten Davis' research into how engineering students develop the skills necessary to function in a globalized engineering work environment—specifically comparing travel and non-travel intercultural learning formats.
February 10, 2025
Some breathing room for Purdue First-Year Engineering after banner enrollment
First-Year Engineering Advising Director Curt Oechsle talks about ways his team met academic advising challenges for a 2024-2025 cohort that far exceeded anticipated enrollment numbers.
January 30, 2025
Purdue FYE student heads to the West Coast to roll out tech startup
FYE student Tolen Schreid is taking a gap year to move his tech company forward, thanks to a hefty influx of venture capital by tech accelerator investors. Schreid is one of the youngest entrepreneurs to receive a financial nod from Y Combinator for Caseflood.ai, an AI, open model platform centered around the legal profession.
January 16, 2025
What's it like to serve as a program director for the National Science Foundation? Ask Alice Pawley
With six months under her belt as an NSF Program Director, ENE Professor Alice Pawley answers questions related to the position, including what it takes to do the job, the right time to take on the role, the logistics involved in taking on the position, and how to find the right work-life balance in DC.
January 14, 2025
NSF awards Purdue ENE funding to research new ways to infuse sustainability, engineering design, and social consciousness into middle and high school STEM education
ENE's Şenay Purzer, Muhsin Menekse, and Virginia Booth-Womack to work with approximately 50 secondary school educators and 600 students in the U.S. to weave socially transformative approaches into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculums.
December 20, 2024
ENE graduate student one of four chosen for TRACER grant
ENE PhD student Adrian Nat Gentry will be at University College London this winter, researching how professional skills are currently being integrated into UCL's foundation engineering curriculum. His efforts are supported by a Purdue College of Engineering TRAvel for CollaborativE Research (TRACER) grant designated for grad students on a promising trajectory toward a career as a faculty member at a top university.
November 20, 2024
Purdue 2024 Engineering Gift Guide focuses on microelectronics
Tamara Moore and the INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering at Purdue ENE released the 11th consecutive Engineering Gift Guide, showcasing 40 gifts to help children and teens better understand and develop an interest in microelectronics. The top gift was a children’s picture book called SOIC & SOT: The Microchips.
November 1, 2024
NSF grant will allow multi-university collaboration to help students grasp quantum concepts for semiconductor devices
Purdue ENE's Kerrie Douglas and Melissa Dyehouse are leading the education research component of an NSF-funded project to expand educational simulation tools developed at Purdue, Georgia Tech and Arizona State.
August 26, 2024
NSF awards $1.5M to Purdue’s School of Engineering Education and colleagues to study what enhances learning statistics online
A joint Purdue University-U of I study co-led by Jason Morphew focuses on improving online learning environments by including instructional gestures and cueing known to help students conceptualize abstract concepts.
August 23, 2024
Fulbright Specialist Program grant sparks collaboration between Purdue University and University College London engineering education programs
As a Fulbright Specialist, Purdue ENE's Kerrie Douglas spent time this summer at University College London where she worked to improve its engineering program's assessment strategies and consulted on ways to approach engineering education research.