Anurag Garg is a Purdue alumnus and Vice President of Product Management at Plex Systems Inc. He earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2012, he founded Bearing Analytics. The company was renamed Dattus in 2013.

One of AIChE’s Board of Directors’ Awards, The Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, is presented to engineers who have had a profound impact on the way chemical engineering is applied, and whose achievements have advanced the profession in any of its aspects. 

Vilas Pol, Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, was one of three Purdue Engineering researchers awarded a grant from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). These grants will be provided to 81 institutions across 35 states in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

Neuropathic pain (NP) affects nearly 16 million Americans. It happens when the nervous system is damaged or not working properly. Diabetes accounts for about 30 percent of NP cases, with other culprits including alcoholism, shingles, phantom pain from amputation, central nervous disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, and trauma or surgeries with resulting nerve damage.

Determining whether materials will be both stable during their use and easy to break down afterward is difficult and costly. Predicting these properties poses a major roadblock on the path from materials discovery to applications.