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.
AE Professors Thanos Tzempelikos and Travis Horton are the Chairs for the 2nd International High Performance Buildings Conference and the 21st International Compressor Engineering Conference respectively, which will take place together with the 14th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue on July 16-19, 2012.
Hoon Sohn, Curtis Visiting Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, is the recipient of this year's Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year.
Several AE-related international conferences and short courses will be offered July 14-19, 2012, with topics including compressors, refrigeration and air conditioning, and high performance buildings.
While he was still in high school in 1971, Rick Conner started to work at American Structurepoint as a part-time apprentice drafter, blueprint boy and deliveryman.
The Third International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation on Sept. 14-16 will take place at the Indiana Government Conference Center in downtown Indianapolis. The three-day conference is organized by Purdue University's School of Civil Engineering and the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council and hosted by the Indiana Department of Transportation.
Purdue University finished second in the Solar Decathlon 2011, a solar house competition in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Purdue's INhome solar house earned a total of 931.390 points out of a possible 1,000. It was second only to the University of Maryland with 951.151 points.
Prof. Robert Connor is taking advantage of the demolition of a bridge spanning the Ohio River to learn more about how bridges collapse in efforts to reduce the annual cost of inspecting large spans.
ETA/Cuisenaire, the nation's leading provider of hands-on supplemental products for math, science and literacy education, has appointed CE Alumnus Jude Rake as President.