Traditional computers are fast, but nothing like the speed of light—at 186,000 miles per second, you can crunch numbers awfully quick. That’s a big reason why optical photonics are being used for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to greatly increase bandwidth and speed.

Arijit Raychowdhury, alumnus of the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, effective December 1.

Graphene has been the focus of intense research in both academic and industrial settings due to its unique electrical conduction properties. As the thinnest material known to man, graphene is essentially two-dimensional and has distinct electronic and photonic properties from conventional 3D materials.

Two ECE professors advancing quantum science have been chosen to receive the university's most prestigious research and scholarship awards. Each recognizes recent accomplishments of high significance and impact.

Soham Saha has been awarded the 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award for his work on all-optical switching. Saha earned his PhD in Fall 2021 from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the field of nanophotonics.

The U.S. Department of Defense is awarding $2.8 million to a collaborative group of Purdue University professors in order to develop a quantum education program at Purdue.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, or SEL, is a 100 percent employee-owned company that specializes in creating digital products and systems that protect, control and automate power systems around the world.

Through the Engineering Undergraduate Research Office (EURO), 18 Purdue Engineering undergraduates participated in first-time research opportunities during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Everything has to be designed and made. New-age products and services increasingly need blending of digital and physical technologies. The emerging manufacturing industry is very different from the conventional view of manufacturing with many forms and shapes of convergence of different types of technologies.

Big data technologies have dramatically changed the world we live in, and in double quick time. And you know that unless you have been living under a Martian rock. We take it for granted in many of our daily interactions — in our personal lives as well as at work. Big data technologies fuel the seemingly never-ending growth of the big tech behemoths — not only the Big Five of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, but also many, many others that owe their growth to big data.