Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

The award honors West Lafayette faculty members who have excelled as teachers, researchers, and scholars. It is in honor of the federal Morrill Act, which allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges and universities.

The award recognizes excellence in graduate student research from across the College of Engineering and is given to students who have demonstrated excellence in research through peer-reviewed publications in journals and conference proceedings, awards for research, recognized contributions to the research field and society, leadership within a research community, academic achievements and participation in professional societies.

His team, EcoBreeze, is a company based on researching and commercializing innovative, powerful, and green cooling technology for customers in the ICT/LED field. He is advised by Professor Mark Bell.

Recipients are selected by colleagues and a panel of senior and distinguished professors for their accelerated path toward academic distinction.

The student team from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers is once again national champions after winning the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Saturday (April 12) in Columbus, Ohio. The ECE students are Adam Bahrainwala and Ben Hilker.

He was selected from a group of 30 nominees in a wide variety of disciplines. The goal of the award program is to recognize Purdue University graduate faculty for their outstanding mentoring of graduate students on campus.

The paper is titled "Nanotextured Superhydrophobic Electrodes enable Detection of Attomolar-scale DNA Concentration within a Droplet by Non-Faradaic Impedance Spectroscopy". She is advised by Professor Ashraful Alam.

Two ECE faculty were promoted to Associate Professor, Niklas Elmqvist and Brent Jesiek. The promotions are effective with the 2014-2015 academic year.