The 98th Purdue Road School on March 6-7, 2012, was attended by over 2,200 transportation professionals. Governor Daniels was the featured speaker at the annual Road School luncheon.

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.

Glen T. Daigger and Jack A. Hockema have been selected as the College of Engineering's 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alumni representing Civil Engineering. The Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award is presented to Engineering alums who have distinguished themselves in any field in ways that reflect favorably on Purdue University, the engineering profession, or society in general.

Prof. Robert Connor has been honored by the American Institute of Steel Construction with the Special Achievement Award.

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.

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.