Held Feb. 4 on Purdue’s West Lafayette campus and Feb. 5 in Indianapolis, Boilermaker Circuit drew 10 corporate partners represented by about 50 recruiters. Organizers estimated that roughly 750 students engaged with employers throughout the two-day fair, exploring opportunities for internships, co-ops and full-time positions.

IEEE Fellow Xipeng Shen will join Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in fall 2026 as part of Purdue’s Moveable Dream Hires program, a strategic initiative designed to recruit top-tier faculty when transformative talent becomes available.

Frank S. Greene Jr., who received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from PurdueUniversity in 1962, has been posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Four teams of Purdue University students won a combined $5,500 from Purdue Innovates Incubator during the finals of the Moonshot Pitch Challenge, a semiannual ideation-focused competition.

Purdue University President and the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor Mung Chiang has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the most prestigious honors in engineering.

Harel Dor, a first-year Purdue ECE doctoral student, has received the honor "for early career achievement operating the Ingenuity helicopter, creating novel operations software features and sequencing techniques to achieve new capabilities on Mars.”

Researchers in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in collaboration with BAE Systems FAST Labs™ have demonstrated the world’s first tunable thin-film spin-wave ladder filter on a chip, a technology that could replace large arrays of frequency filters with a single reconfigurable device.

Scheduled to launch aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft in 2027, Purdue 1 includes multiple experiments designed and led by faculty in Purdue’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), reinforcing the university’s leadership in space-enabled research and hands-on engineering education.

CHORUS, the first center within NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), headquartered at Purdue, addresses a critical challenge: how to build highly dependable cyber-physical systems from components that may not be inherently reliable or secure.

Purdue ECE student Jack McKenna competes on ‘Beast Games’ with MrBeast.