A Purdue University initiative is tackling a critical economic challenge: helping small and midsize manufacturers adopt digital technologies to improve efficiency and remain competitive. The innovative engagement model, ManuFuture Today, developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), has shown promising results, including one success story where a participating company more than doubled its productivity within a year.

Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue's vice president for global partnerships and programs, director of semiconductor education, and a professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed as an inaugural member of the Workforce Advisory Board for the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC).

Sharon Hagle and her husband, Marc (BSEE '71), SpaceKids Global, an organization that encourages elementary students to consider careers in space exploration and technology. She and Marc are now two-time space travelers, having participated in Blue Origin's NS-28 flight in November 2024.

The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Society (ECESS) recently hosted the biannual Spark Challenge, an event that brings together students to showcase their creativity, technical expertise, and collaborative spirit. Spark is designed to inspire electrical and computer engineering students to think outside the box while applying their classroom knowledge to real-world problems.

Edward J. Delp, the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional contributions to innovation and society.

Researchers have been exploring different materials that promote interaction of light with collective electron oscillations as well as control of the interactions between electrons.

The IEEE Board of Directors has elevated Dionysios Aliprantis, professor in Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to the grade of IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2025.

Santiago Torres-Arias, assistant professor in Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently took center stage at KubeCon 2024 to deliver a keynote entitled "Open Source Security is Not a Spectator Sport."

Experiential learning doesn't have to come from a competitive internship. Purdue University in Indianapolis gives students opportunities to interact with local or large-scale organizations through a variety of means.

The Institute of Chips and AI, launched on Nov. 19 in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a pioneering initiative from the Purdue University College of Engineering and the next giant leap in redefining the future of semiconductor and AI research in these transformative fields. Purdue ECE professors Kaushik Roy and Anand Raghunathan are co-directors of the institute.