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.

Congratulations to Prof. Hubo Cai, 2nd place co-recipient of the 2010 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems

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.

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.

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.