Ricardo has been selected as a 2024 International Road Federation Fellow. He was co-nominated for this prestigious award by Professor Nadia Gkritza and Professor Samuel Labi.

Four Purdue University projects will share $2.4 million as recipients of the U.S. Defense Department’s DEPSCoR (Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) awards, a program to strengthen the agency’s relationships in basic research at institutions of higher learning.

Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza, professor at the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, has been named a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers Board of Directors.

Aaron Brovont, Research Assistant Professor, Steven D. Pekarek, Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III Professor of ECE, and Dionysios Aliprantis, Professor of ECE, were honored for presenting their research paper “Magnetic Design for Three-Phase Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer with Constant Output Power,” which was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.

Purdue University engineers Dionysios Aliprantis, Nadia Gkritza, John Haddock and Steve Pekarek are testing technology they designed to enable electric vehicles to receive power from the road.