The International Association for Pattern Recognition awards the prize every two years to a person in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. Professor Chellappa received his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and received his OECE award in 2010. He is currently the Head of ECE at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Rube Goldberg machine competition organized by Avon Middle School taught the 5th grade students basic engineering design in a fun project.

Purdue researchers have demonstrated tiny machines that could make possible super-accurate sensors and motors, with far-reaching applications from computer storage to altimeters, detecting petroleum deposits to measuring DNA-binding forces.

Purdue researchers have demonstrated tiny machines that could make possible super-accurate sensors and motors, with far-reaching applications from computer storage to altimeters, detecting petroleum deposits to measuring DNA-binding forces.

The award was for Professor Allebach's development of the Tone-Dependent Error Diffusion algorithm used widely in inkjet and laser printers.

Qing's paper is titled "An Explicit and Unconditionally Stable Time-Domain Finite-Element Method of Linear Complexity." He is advised by Professor Dan Jiao.

Seventy-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 18th annual Symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2 1/2 day event. The participants were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from approximately 300 applicants.

Matthias Yui-Hong Tan, Yaohua P. Tan, and Parijat Sengupta are Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO) students and are advised by Professor Gerhard Klimeck.

James Moore and Xufeng Wang are advised by Professor Mark Lundstrom, while Biswajit Ray and Sourabh Dongaonkar are advised by Professor Muhammad A. Alam.

The theme of TEDxPurdueU 2012 was "...innovation." The speakers selected were Purdue students, alumni, and faculty whose stories shed unique light on various aspects of the creative process from idea conception to reality.