Purdue Summer Training, Awareness, and Readiness for Semiconductors (STARS) is an eight-week program that will be offered in summer 2024 to develop deep-tech skills like IC design, fabrication, and packaging, and semiconductor device and materials characterization. The STARS program has three tracks: chip design, semiconductor manufacturing, and advanced system integration and packaging.

As deepfakes improve and become more prevalent, so do the efforts to fight back. Researchers, like Ed Delp at Purdue University, have been working to create detection software that can identify Deepfakes in real time.

The brain behind the project is Purdue University's Steve Pekarek. The engineering professor is the lead researcher on the project, and he says the technology could make a transition to electric vehicles more attractive.

Santiago Torres-Arias, a professor at Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, said cybersecurity hacks have become more common at hospitals because of the types of patient data they store in their servers.

Another advantage of these programming tools is the ability to create a template for code, notes Saurabh Bagchi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. Much as with prompt engineering, developers must provide these assistants with “the right kind of software requirements to produce a template, and then a software engineer can fill in the gaps,” he says.

"The amount of solar energy in Indiana is relatively small," Professor Muhammad Ashraful Alam, an Electrical Computer Engineering professor at Purdue University, said.

Alexandra Boltasseva, a Purdue University electrical and computer engineer, was immediately intrigued by MXenes when she heard about them in 2015. Her group had been searching for new materials for optic and photonic applications. She had studied noble metals, semiconductors, and ceramics. “Then I met Yury and learned about MXenes,” she says.

Zubin Jacob, Purdue University Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses the convergence of thermal imaging and artificial intelligence. The recently developed heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) technique offers performance advantages in low-light environments, in which other modalities face drawbacks. Also, we speak with TRAQC’s Mariia Zhuldybina and Benjamin Dringoli. The company recently took first place in the 2024 SPIE Startup Challenge. TRAQC’s solution leverages THz light, offering real-time inspection capabilities for printed and additive electronics.

Applications are open for Purdue University’s new 100% online Master of Science in artificial intelligence degree, which features two majors, one for people who build AI systems and one for people who make use of them.