One intern from Purdue at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory can do a little more than put his time there on his resume. ECE sophomore Riley Avron can actually say he helped engineers figure out how to drive Curiosity on Mars.

ISLPED (International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design) is the premier conference focused on power consumption and energy efficiency in integrated circuits, electronics, and computing. The paper is titled "TapeCache: A High Density, Energy Efficient Cache Based on Domain Wall Memory".

The topic of the speech was "Spin as State Variable for Computation: Prospects and Perspectives".

The article "Top-gated graphene field-effect-transistors formed by decomposition of SiC," by Professors Ye, Capano, Qi, Cooper, Reifenberger, and their students, published in Applied Physics Letters (Volume 92 / Issue 9 / 2008) is among the most downloaded articles of the last five years in APL. APL is the most highly cited journal in Applied Physics.

Researchers are creating applications that enable cell phones and other portable devices to translate the meaning of gang graffiti for law enforcement and hazardous materials placards for emergency first responders.

The International Association for Pattern Recognition awards the prize every two years to a person in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. Professor Chellappa received his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and received his OECE award in 2010. He is currently the Head of ECE at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Rube Goldberg machine competition organized by Avon Middle School taught the 5th grade students basic engineering design in a fun project.

Purdue researchers have demonstrated tiny machines that could make possible super-accurate sensors and motors, with far-reaching applications from computer storage to altimeters, detecting petroleum deposits to measuring DNA-binding forces.

The award was for Professor Allebach's development of the Tone-Dependent Error Diffusion algorithm used widely in inkjet and laser printers.

Qing's paper is titled "An Explicit and Unconditionally Stable Time-Domain Finite-Element Method of Linear Complexity." He is advised by Professor Dan Jiao.