Prof. Mithuna Thottethodi has created a device and a companion smartphone app that allow anyone to set off fireworks from a safe distance. ZapSpark is designed as a compact and easy-to-use technology that allows people to shoot off fireworks from up to 75 feet away.

Communication could step beyond reading a cellular phone screen with a new technique by Purdue College of Engineering researchers, led by ECE Prof. Hong Tan, to learn and read messages through a person’s sense of touch.

Led by ECE Prof. Surabh Bagchi, A new Purdue University College of Engineering center has been unveiled to seek the foundational design principles that underlie resilient systems. The Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems and Processes (CRISP) was officially started in October 2017 and will run its seed grant competition for research proposals this summer.

Researchers are taking advantage of a newly found phenomenon in silicon that makes quantum bits easier to manipulate, leading to faster and longer-lived information processing via quantum computing.

Alexandra Boltasseva, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been chosen as a finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Boltasseva and 30 other finalists will compete for the world’s largest unrestricted prizes for early career scientists — $250,000 each for three Blavatnik National Laureates in the categories of Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Physical Sciences & Engineering.

Purdue researchers, including ECE Prof. Haiyan Wang, have observed a way that the brittle nature of ceramics can be overcome as they sustain heavy loads, leading to more resilient structures such as aircraft engine blade coatings and dental implants.

Purdue ECE professors Wenzhuo Wu and Peide Ye have discovered a new two-dimensional material, derived from the rare element tellurium, to make transistors that carry a current better throughout a computer chip.

Dr. Leah Jamieson, the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering, received an honorary Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) at a commencement ceremony held May 15th in Newark, NJ.

Peide "Peter" Ye, the Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been chosen as the 2018 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award recipient. One of Purdue University's top three research honors, the Bement Award is given for significant accomplishments in pure and applied science and engineering. Ye is being honored for his field-defining work in synthesizing and applying novel electronic materials to achieve record device performance.

ECE junior Cameron Lackey spent the Spring 2018 semester studying abroad at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Madrid, Spain.