Each spring, the College of Engineering recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of our graduate students and postdocs through several prestigious awards. Graduate students also select an outstanding faculty mentor who has gone above and beyond to serve the graduate students in their program.

Julia Sanz Iglesias, a senior studying biomedical engineering, received the top international student award from Purdue University's Office of International Students and Scholars.

Four students from Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have been selected for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). Brendan Ball, Juliet Heye, Katherine Kerr and Hammad Khan are part of the 2022 class of GRFP Fellows. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

Three Purdue BME faculty recently had promotions approved by Purdue Board of Trustees. Fang Huang and Joseph Rispoli have been promoted to Associate Professor; Young Kim has been promoted to Full Professor, as of August 15, 2022.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Pavlos Vlachos to its College of Fellows.

An eco-friendly soy-based face mask, a system to reduce food waste, a greener campus infrastructure initiative, and apps to optimize study plans and find study spots – these student innovations received honors and support in the College of Engineering’s inaugural Purdue Pitch Competition.

Purdue University's College of Engineering is No. 4 for the second consecutive year in overall national rankings of graduate engineering programs in the new U.S. News and World Report rankings.

Young Kim, an associate professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, developed a new anticounterfeiting technology to turn a smartphone into a lifesaver by simply taking a picture of a cyberphysical watermark and confirming if the medication is real or not.

GeniPhys Inc., a life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing a proprietary biopolymer technology developed in Purdue University professor Sherry Harbin's laboratory, has been awarded a two-year, $974,349 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation.

Wearables have been a "next big thing" in personal computing for several years now. From smartglasses to smartwatches and fitness trackers, computing devices have been growing smaller and more mobile, making it feasible to have one on us all the time.