The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.

Recipients of this honor are either tenured associate professors or full professors who have been in that rank for no more than five years and are named in recognition of their scholarship. The newly named Faculty Scholars will begin their five-year terms in the fall of 2010.

Purdue University's engineering programs remain among the best in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's rankings of the top graduate schools.

Two ECE faculty were promoted to Professor and two were promoted to Associate Professor. The promotions are effective with the 2010-2011 academic year.

Professor Vladimir Shalaev has won the 2010 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America, in recognition of his seminal contributions to both the theoretical framework and the optical realization of optical metamaterials.

Mark Johnson, Manager of Digital Design & Systems Labs, has been awarded the 2010 Outstanding Service Award to the Illinois-Indiana Section of the ASEE.

Professor Dimitri Peroulis has won the 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy

The interactive website makes available scientific simulations, seminars, interactive courses, and other nanotech-related materials to researchers and educators.

ECE researchers have developed a miniature device capable of converting ultrafast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals, a step toward making communication wires obsolete in future homes and offices.

Professor James Cooper's goal will be to maximize the impact of the center's research on society. The position became vacant after Director Timothy Sands was elected as the new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost.