2024-2025 Undergraduate Student Awards and Honors
Dave & Marsha Meyer Undergraduate Teaching Awards
ECE has about 200 undergraduates who help out in classes as teaching assistants. They hold office hours, help design and grade assignments, and generally keep our classes running smoothly.
Aidan Dannsausen-Brun: For his dedication to the Software Engineering Tools lab; both in code reviews and resource creation, encouraging a clearer understanding and stronger academic outcomes among his fellow students.
Amit Vardhan Suryadevara: For being one of the most hardworking, dependable and approachable UTA's for ECE301, ECE20001, and 20502 lab at Purdue in Indianapolis.
Dhruv Shah: For their outstanding dedication, initiative and exemplary support as a TA for ECE 20007, consistently going above and beyond to assist students and meet all responsibilities with punctuality and efficiency.
Surya Turaga: For their exceptional dedication, proactive efforts in improving course structure, and remarkable responsiveness to student inquiries, significantly enhancing the overall learning experience.
Zafeer Reza: In recognition of his extraordinary commitment, leadership, and impact as an UTA in ECE 27000.
Undergraduate Research Awards
Purdue ECE runs the largest research program of any School at Purdue, and undergraduates play key roles in our research agenda. These students design and run experiments, write papers, present results, and support our top 10-nationwide program. These awards recognize the top undergraduate researchers, as measured by drive and accomplishment.
Aniket Chatterjee: For outstanding contributions towards developing a topology analysis tool for systematic interconnection network design.
Zachary Au: For outstanding contributions towards understanding and improving antenna design and placement for high-speed vehicles.
Undergraduate Service Award
Through organizations such as the ECE Student Society and HKN, Purdue undergraduates provide camaraderie, advice, tutoring, mentoring, and coffee and donuts to the ECE community. This award recognizes students who have performed extraordinary service to the School over the year.
Chinwendu Zachariah Ayogu: For outstanding service and leadership as the President of the Student Society at Purdue in Indianapolis.
Noah Rediker: For outstanding service and leadership as the Vice President and Treasurer for the ECE Student Society at Purdue West Lafayette.
Senior Design Awards
Senior Design is a required capstone experience which allows students to apply the knowledge they have gained from their ECE courses to a semester or year-long project. Through this project, students gain hands-on experience, enhance their written and oral technical communication skills, and develop their team work abilities. The Senior Design Awards recognize teams that achieved excellence with their projects.
Karaoke-Inspired Language Learning Application: Parthiv Shaji, Darin Tsai, and Haddy Alchaer
- For their design and implementation of a karaoke-inspired language learning application.
AI-Powered 'Bedside Assistant': Sam Wong, Parthiv Patel, and Andy Lam
- For their design and implementation of an AI-powered 'bedside assistant' for medical professionals.
Microcontroller-based Edge Computing Cluster: Akshath Ravikiran, Aneesh Poddutur, Gautam Nambiar, and Gokulkrishnan Harikrishnan
- For their design and implementation of a distributed, scalable, microcontroller-based edge computing cluster.
Purdubik's Cube: Matthew Patrohay, Aden Hurd, Junpei Ota, and Alex Berta
- For their design and implementation of a Rubik's Cube solving machine as an example of industrial automation.
Translating Glasses: Alfred Barandearan Gutierrez, Emery C. Bredemeyer, Rohit Lala, and Benjamin C. Miller
- For their design and implementation of Translating Glasses; a device that translates spoken language to translated text in a wearable form factor.
FPGA-based Tensor Processing Unit: Dan Gui, Fan Jing Hoon, Ann Zi Lau, and Marty K. Martin
- For their design and implementation of an FPGA-based Tensor Processing Unit to accelerate machine learning workloads.
Dunipace Outstanding Senior Design Award
The Dunipace Outstanding Senior Design Award recognizes outstanding senior design projects at Purdue in Indianapolis. It is the intent of the donors that this gift be used to support scholarships for students who are seniors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program in the School of Engineering and Technology and who exhibit excellence in the development and presentation of their senior design projects.
Aaron Sandlin, Ben Dawes, Kham Nom, and Nick Hofer: For their design and implementation of "Solar Power-Water Tower-Kid Wow-er!," a well-conceived and well implemented exhibit at the Kids Discovery Factory in Batesville, IN, to communicate solar energy concepts to children.