The grant, entitled "Enabling Transformational Science and Engineering Through Integrated Collaborative Visualization and Data Analysis for the National User Community", is shared between Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin

The 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Awards recipients are David J. Dries, John D. McDonald, Keerti Melkote, Jonathan A. Murray, and Karenann Terrell

The student researcher, working with Professor Dimitri Peroulis, won for his research on High-Efficiency On-Chip Antennas.

His research is on Integrated High-Q High-Tunability Evanescent Mode Tunable Filter using Reliable MEMS Technology. His adviser is Professor Dimitri Peroulis.

The honorable mention award was for his paper titled "A Capacitively-Loaded MEMS Slot Element for Wireless Temperature Sensing of up to 300C." He is advised by Professor Dimitri Peroulis.

He was co-advised by Professors Pedro Irazoqui and William Chappell. The title of the paper was "High Frequency Transcutaneous Transmission using Stents Configured as a Dipole Radiator for Cardiovascular Implantable Devices."

The paper was co-authored by Julio Ho from BME at Purdue, Daryush Mehta from MIT-Harvard, Robert Hillman from MGH/MIT-Harvard, and Professor George Wodicka of ECE. The project is part of the collaboration between Professor Wodicka and Professor Robert Hillman, Research Director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery & Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $105 million to a Purdue-led team to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters for the operations of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, or NEES. Submitted through the Cyber Center in Purdue's Discovery Park, the grant spans five years and is the largest in the university's history. Julio Ramirez, Professor of civil engineering, will serve as the Director of the center. Professor Bagchi will be responsible for the cybersecurity of NEES hardware and software assets at the headquarters and the 14 NEES sites.

Professor Jan Allebach and a team of eight ECE faculty (Professors Boutin, Brown, Koh, Krogmeier, Lee, Love, Lu and Meyer) secured the HP Innovations in Education grant to develop and test a new teaching approach designed to boost the academic success of underrepresented minorities in engineering programs.