Ali Mostafavi, a doctoral student in the School of Civil Engineering, received the Grand Prize and People's Choice Award at the USDOT Data Visualization Student Challenge for his simulation and visualization model of the outcomes of financing policies in transportation infrastructure.
Prof. Larry Nies is one of 27 instructors at Purdue participating in the IMPACT program (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) in an effort to improve rates of course completion and retention in foundational courses.
The NEXTRANS Center at Purdue University has been awarded a $3.5 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to advance research and education programs that address the nation's critical transportation challenges.
On Oct. 19, the College of Engineering launched a matching-gift opportunity made possible by $2 million allocated to supplement donor investments in named strategic initiatives.
A study of Indiana drivers shows heightened risk of serious injury and death for men 45 and older driving on snow and ice, women driving on rain-slick highways, and younger men driving on dry roadways.
In 1922, recent college graduate Charles A. Ellis was brought in to collaborate with engineers working on the Golden Gate Bridge. Over the next decade, Ellis, who later would join Purdue as a professor of structural engineering, designed the bridge that would one day span 1.2 miles of San Francisco's Golden Gate Strait.
A Turkish earthquake expert who examined buildings near the epicenter of the earthquakes near Van, Turkey, says improper design and construction added greatly to damage in the region.
Shelby Swango has been named Area Manager for Indiana at Parsons
Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure strategic consulting, planning, engineering and program/construction management organization.
A team of Purdue University researchers has invented a prototype water-disinfection system that could help the world's 800 million people who lack safe drinking water.
Prof. Chad Jafvert was the first recipient of the inaugural Richard L. Valentine Distinguished Award and Lecture, held Friday, Oct. 28th at the University of Iowa.
Earthquake expert Ayhan Irfanoglu is headed to the epicenter of the Turkey earthquake to document and decipher why so many buildings failed in and near Ercis.
The Turkish civil engineer who has been working for many years to save Istanbul from an expected killer quake says the current devastation in Ercis is largely a product of the inability to enforce existing codes to ensure safe structures.
Researchers are perfecting a new technique that could speed construction of skyscrapers while also providing enough stiffness and strength to withstand earthquakes and forces from high winds.
Robert L. Bowen (BSCE '62), the Donn E. Hancher Distinguished Fellow for the Division of Construction Engineering Management, has won an Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Society of Civil Engineers.