The interactive website makes available scientific simulations, seminars, interactive courses, and other nanotech-related materials to researchers and educators.
Professor James Cooper's goal will be to maximize the impact of the center's research on society. The position became vacant after Director Timothy Sands was elected as the new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost.
On February 19th, the College of Engineering honors alumnus Carl J. Johnson (BSEE '64) along with 8 other Engineering alumni who have distinguished themselves in their careers.
Timothy Sands, the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering in the schools of MSE and ECE and Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center has been appointed Purdue's next Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. He will succeed Randy Woodson, who will become chancellor of North Carolina State University.
Professor Vijay Raghunathan has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his project "CAREER: A Hardware-Software Approach to Enabling In-Situ Visibility and Control in Wireless Embedded Systems" in the amount of $413,266 for a duration of five years.
Professor Babak Ziaie has been invited to join the University of Southern California Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center (BMES ERC) Scientific Advisory Board.
Professor Sanjay Rao has been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant for his project "CAREER: Towards Automated and Assurable Enterprise Network Migration" in the amount of $80,000 per year for five years.
Professor Dimitrios Peroulis has won the 2010 Eta Kappa Nu C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award. The award recognizes the role of college professors in educating and motivating future electrical and computer engineers.
The Beta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu has received the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2008-2009. The award is a mark of great distinction for college chapters, which are judged on their activities of service to others.