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The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), in partnership with Purdue’s Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering, intends to offer the new concentration—an entirely new Master of Science (MS) degree major in semiconductors and microelectronics—starting in January 2022. Depending on their interests, students can customize their coursework to focus on semiconductor devices and manufacturing, circuit design, or system design.
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The U.S. Department of Defense is awarding $2.8 million to a collaborative group of Purdue University professors in order to develop a quantum education program at Purdue. This grant is supported by the National Defense Education Program (NDEP) for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education, Outreach, and Workforce Initiative Programs.
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The Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series has been inviting world-renowned faculty and professionals to Purdue Engineering to encourage thought-provoking conversations and ideas with faculty and students regarding the grand challenges and opportunities in their fields.
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The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected three Purdue ECE professors to NAI Fellow status. Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of ECE, Mung Chiang, the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of ECE and the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Haiyan Wang, Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering, join 175 prolific academic innovators from across the world in the 2020 class of Fellows.
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Purdue scientists and engineers have received $1M in support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance the adversarial robustness of computer vision systems in the real physical world. The project, titled “Robust Deep Learning in Real Physical Space: Generalization, Scalability, and Credibility,” is funded through the NSF’s Stimulating Collaborative Advances Leveraging Expertise in the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning (SCALE MoDL) program.
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Yung-Hsiang Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed several patented technologies and helped his students start their own companies. He is a Purdue Faculty Scholar, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Alumnus William B. Elmore was honored in two events on Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus for his $25-million gift to name the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. To maximize the impact of the gift, the school will distribute funds to address both short- and long-term needs and opportunities including the initiation of research and education centers alongside retention and recruitment support for faculty and students. Elmore was recognized at a luncheon sponsored by the School and at the 2021 Engineering Alumni Association Awards.
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Saha earned his PhD in Fall 2021 from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the field of nanophotonics. Saha’s submission was titled “Engineering the Optical Properties and Temporal Responses of Conducting Oxides and Nitrides for Optically Switchable Metasurfaces”.
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Former ECE graduate students Rangharajan Venkatesan (PhD ECE ’14) and Amit Agrawal (PhD ECE ’05), together with Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley Professor of ECE, and Kaushik Roy, Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of ECE, are receiving the honor. The award is given to the paper considered to be the most influential in research and industrial practice in computer-aided design over the ten years since its original appearance at ICCAD.
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