Purdue ECE student athletes earn academic honors
Two Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering students are among the student athletes who earned academic honors during the 2024-2025 school year.
Cecilie Wiuff is a member of the Women’s Swimming and Diving team. She is majoring in electrical engineering. Wiuff was recognized as a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar for achieving a grade-point average of at least 3.70. Women’s Swimming & Diving had 11 honorees, the most of any Purdue team.
Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Distinguished Scholar recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters or three quarters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 during the previous academic year, excluding any summer grades. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student's academic career.
Raymond Whittaker is a member of the Men’s Swimming and Diving team majoring in electrical engineering. Whittaker is one of 11 swimmers who earned Scholar All-American accolades from the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
The CSCAA honors student-athletes that achieved 3.5-plus grade-point averages during the spring semester/quarter, which coincides with swimming & diving’s championship season, headlined by the NCAA Championships in March. First-team honorees competed at the NCAA Championships and second-team honorees achieved an individual NCAA provisional qualifying time (B Cut) or competed at their NCAA Diving Zone Championships meet. Whittaker was a second-team honoree.
Source: Purdue Engineering student athletes honored as Big Ten Distinguished Scholars