The selection is in recognition of Professor Melloch's past accomplishments and future commitment to the program.

The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship is through the Department of Defense and is offered to U.S. citizens and nationals pursuing a doctoral degree in scientific disciplines of DoD interest.

The award honors West Lafayette faculty members' who have excelled as teachers, researchers, and scholars. The award is in honor of the 150th anniversary of the federal Morrill Act, which allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges and universities.

ECE researchers have created a next-generation zoom function to view and compare portions of complex graphics such as city maps, scientific images or pages of text.

Three ECE faculty were promoted to Professor and two were promoted to Associate Professor. The promotions are effective with the 2012-13 academic year.

Researchers at Purdue and Princeton universities have created a prototype firewall to block hackers from interfering with wireless medical devices such as pacemakers, insulin-delivery systems and brain implants.

University Faculty Scholars are select associate and full professors who have been in that rank for no more than five years and are on an accelerated path toward academic distinction.

This award is presented by the Purdue chapter of Tau Beta Pi to an engineering professor for his or her devotion to encouraging, inspiring, and advising the engineering student body in order that engineering students might grow both academically and professionally.

The winner of the award is determined by the distance students who nominate faculty and support those nominations through comments and evaluations.

The Murphy Award, the university's highest undergraduate teaching honor, is given annually in recognition of outstanding teaching in all phases of undergraduate instruction at Purdue's West Lafayette campus.