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.
A horse slicker is just a horse slicker, of course, of course, unless it can monitor chronic disease. With the exception of Mister Ed of television sitcom fame, horses can’t talk with humans about health issues. Now, a first-of-its-kind horse slicker with a specially designed liner could be able to “tell” the horse’s human caregivers of increasing chronic diseases.
Brooke Beier has been promoted to senior vice president of commercialization at the Purdue Research Foundation. In addition to her current responsibilities in leading PRF's Office of Technology Commercialization, Beier will oversee the Purdue Foundry.