ECE students Baibhab Chatterjee, Debayan Das, and Prof. Shreyas Sen received a Best Poster Award (3rd) at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), held April 30-May 4, 2018 in Mclean, Virginia.

Purdue ECE graduate students Mohamed Hagag and Mahmoud Abdelfattah won the best conference paper award at the 19th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2018). The paper title was: "Balanced Octave-Tunable Absorptive Bandstop Filter."

Nathan Conrad, I-Fan Lin, and Hung-Yi Lo were recipients of the Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award. This award honors graduate students with teaching responsibilities for their dedication to Purdue undergraduate students and their exceptional teaching contributions.

Purdue researchers, led by ECE Prof. David Ebert, have developed an online platform that enables first responders to monitor emergency situations using tweets and Instagram posts. Called the Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART), the browser-based platform filters social media content according to key words and geographic regions defined by the user.

ECE Prof. Sunil Bhave has received $35,000 in funding from the Trask Innovation Fund to help move his “Wafer Level Vacuum Packaging for Opto-mechanical Devices" through the commercialization pipeline. The technology uses micro-electro-mechanical systems for inertial navigation when conventional GPS signals are not feasible.

Purdue researchers, including ECE professors Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva, have helped design a compact switch that enables light to be more reliably confined to small computer chip components for faster information processing.

A team of Purdue researchers is working to accelerate innovation in the food and agricultural industry through the development and sharing of open-source tools and culture. The co-director of Purdue’s Open Agricultural Technology and Systems (OATS) Center is ECE Prof. James Krogmeier.

A number of ECE graduate students received Purdue College of Engineering awards at a luncheon on April 24, 2018.

Considered one of the “fathers of the Internet,” Robert Kahn is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program. He also coined the term National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the mid 1980s which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) announces plans to build a 100,000-square-foot facility for electric power research in the Purdue Discovery Park District designed to support up to 300 new high-tech jobs. In addition, Purdue ECE alumnus Edmund O. Schweitzer III, and his wife, Beatriz Schweitzer, will donate $3-million in funds to support this pipeline of innovation at Purdue.