A junior in computer engineering at Purdue, Heather Stephens says she wants to work in consumer electronics. “Anything you see in Best Buy, I want to be part of that,” she says. “My dream job would be to work for Sony and develop the PS-5.”

Professor Jung received $49,548 for "Wireless Positioning and Tracking Technology for Indoor Location Based Services," a technology for an automated positioning and tracking system for indoor and outdoor applications with substantially higher resolution than GPS-style positioning systems.

Their paper, entitled "Low-Frequency Meandering Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester," won the T-UFFC 2012 Outstanding Paper Award of the Ferroelectrics Society section.

His talk was titled "MoS2 MOSFETs: Dielectrics, Contacts and Scaling"

Thanks to funding provided by a company co-founded by a Purdue alumnus, Purdue University is collaborating with Rutgers and Auburn Universities to revolutionize the efficiency of electric power consumption within the United States. Purdue's principal investigator is ECE Professor James Cooper.

The mission theme this year was cabled ocean-observing systems. The Purdue team also won the Engineering Evaluation MVP Award for its ability to defend its design decisions in a logical manner, and received the Judges' Choice Award.

A new fiber-optic cable that seamlessly shuttles multiple beams of light simultaneously could drastically speed data transfer over the Internet.

You’re pinned under the rubble of a collapsed building. Hundreds of roaches scuttle toward you, but you’re unable to move. You can only watch as a great brown swarm closes in. But there’s something different about this approaching army of bugs. Each one hefts a coin-size sensor that’s glued to its back. The troop of roaches has been sent to rescue you.

Researchers have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications, representing a potential tool to thwart would-be eavesdroppers and improve security for telecommunications.

Crop producers and consultants could have more energy-efficient, versatile tools to use for integrated pest management processes.