ECE postdoctoral researcher Dong-Yeop Na has won an international award for a conference paper. “Quantum Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme” has been selected for one of the two 2020 IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Awards on Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics.

Workforce education in manufacturing has traditionally been very low-tech: in-person teaching sessions, one-on-one apprenticeship, written manuals, and perhaps a video. But to keep pace with an increasing skills gap, some manufacturers are now turning to augmented and virtual reality to teach their workers new skills. A Purdue team has entered into a $5 million cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create an augmented and virtual reality experience prototype called Skill-XR.

Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging.

Purdue University will lead a national initiative sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to address the urgent need for engineering graduates to develop defense technologies, especially in the area of microelectronics

The nanoHUB team has been chosen as the recipient of a 2020 R&D 100 Award. This prestigious award was established in 1963 and recognizes the year's most revolutionary developments in science and technology. Past R&D 100 Award winners include Fortune 500 companies, academic laboratories, and all sizes of organizations in between.

Everett Berry is the winner of the 2020 Eaton Award in Design Excellence. This unique award program recognizes outstanding work in the field of design by recent Purdue ECE alumni.

Drones and other unmanned machines can save human lives on the battlefield, but adversaries could hack into their artificial intelligence software. Purdue University will be leading research in partnership with Princeton University on ways to protect the software of these autonomous systems by making their machine learning algorithms more secure. These algorithms are what the machines rely on to make decisions and adapt on the battlefield.

Since April, electrical & computer engineering student Isha Ghodgaonkar and colleagues have analyzed 0.5 terabytes of data per week from 11,140 network cameras. The New Scientist journal recently published an article covering this research on studying worldwide social distancing.