Each spring, Purdue University’s College of Engineering recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of graduate students and postdocs through several prestigious awards. Graduate students also select an outstanding faculty mentor who has gone above and beyond to serve the graduate students in their program.

The annual ECE Undergraduate Excellence Awards celebrate students who serve as undergraduate teaching assistants, contribute to research, lead and volunteer across the school, and complete innovative design projects that apply classroom learning to real-world challenges. The awards also recognize ECE students who have earned notable external honors.

Instructors with 75 percentile or higher evaluation scores in four groups — small, medium, large and very large courses — were recognized for the spring 2026 semester.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees across STEM disciplines. Tung’s research focuses on the future of wireless communication as the world moves toward next-generation 6G networks.

The Presidential Excellence Award was established by the Office of the Provost to help recruit top graduate students to Purdue.

Qi Guo, assistant professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research that could help devices see the world in 3D more efficiently and in more challenging environments.

Mohammad Samin Nur Chowdhury, a doctoral student in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the 2026 Outstanding Student Research Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA), a national organization that supports and advances neutron scattering research in the United States.

Harel Dor, a PhD student in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a prestigious honor that supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based degrees in science and engineering.

This May, the Purdue University College of Engineering will offer a free, two-week intensive program designed to give participants the technical fluency and interview-ready skills the AI era demands.

Consumers, businesses and institutions may soon have private, secure and trustworthy generative AI tools for editing and sharing profile photos, ID images and personal pictures without exposing their private identities to external platforms.