Seven ECE faculty members were promoted this year. Zhihong Chen, Byunghoo Jung, Xiaojun Lin, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Minghao Qi, and Chih-Chun Wang were all promoted to Full Professor. Peter Bermel was promoted to Associate Professor. The promotions are effective starting with the 2017-2018 academic year.

Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi is a non-profit membership society of nearly 75,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories, and industry research centers. Professor Ye's award included a plaque and $1,000.

The CEO and co-founder of Mobile Enerlytics LLC is ECE Professor Y. Charlie Hu. The company has developed a technology shown to extend battery life of digital devices and has received federal funding to further develop the technology that could impact billions of devices including smartphones, notebooks and smartwatches across the world.

NDSEG Fellowships last for three years and pay for full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 a year in medical insurance.

This two-year-long award will support Professor Zhu's research on using digital images to connect eating environment with dietary quality.

At the 2017 annual ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) meeting, the Purdue (beta) chapter of HKN was once again recognized with the annual Outstanding Chapter Award.

The article highlights the opportunities available for those studying engineering. Interviewed are grad student Tara Thomas and Professor David Meyer.

CRII is a program under the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at NSF. The award is established with the goal of encouraging research independence immediately upon obtaining the applicant’s first academic position after receipt of the PhD. The grant is designed to support untenured faculty or research scientists within their first three years in a primary academic position. This two-year-long award will support Professor Sen’s research on In-Sensor Analytics and Human Body Communication (HBC) for Implantables, which focuses on using the human body as a conducting medium to securely, safely and energy-efficiently connect implantable devices.

The work was in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The research involves self-cooling photovoltaic modules which can provide a 0.5% absolute efficiency boost and extend the lifetime by 85%.