One of the many pluses of the virtual world is the ability to model before taking an irreversible action. Combining that modeling with medical imaging is a powerful combination of both worlds: the predictive powers of a virtual tool with the real-world images of the subject.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to make ordinary trips, which most people take for granted, available and convenient for persons with disabilities. Brad Duerstock and Brandon Pitts are developing a platform called EASI RIDER — Efficient, Accessible and Safe Interaction in a Real Integrated Design Environment for Riders with disabilities.

Purdue University’s Board of Trustees on Friday (April 9) approved several Biomedical Engineering faculty promotions. The following promotions are effective with the 2021-22 academic year, effective Aug. 16, 2021, and also include Distinguished and Named Faculty approved by the board in November 2020.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program released its 2021 Award Offers and Honorable Mentions List on March 23, which includes a number of Purdue Engineering students and alumni.

Purdue University’s College of Engineering is not only among the largest but also among the very best in the country – rising even higher in national rankings. In recent years its graduate and research program ranking has been rising from No. 9 to 8 to 7.

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.

Kelsey Macaddino, BME undergraduate student, is one of nine Purdue Engineering students who received the honor. She was also recognized in 2019 and 2020.

Purdue's Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Association (BMEGSA) has selected Dr. Joseph Rispoli as the recipient of Outstanding Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students Award for the 2020-21 academic year.

Landing a faculty position is a competitive pursuit for freshly minted PhDs, requiring excellence in research, teaching, and service. An important aspect of future faculty training is understanding engineering education pedagogies and mastering the new instructional technology that rapidly evolved in the pandemic era.

Led by BME/ME’s C.H. Lee, a team of Purdue researchers developed a novel technology enabling commercial soft contact lenses to be a bioinstrumentation tool to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions.