Purdue University and national leaders celebrate plans for $100 million worth of renovations at Birck Nanotechnology Center and its Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory, or cleanroom, in Discovery Park District at Purdue. Cutting a ceremonial ribbon at the ceremony Thursday (April 25) were, from left, Zhihong Chen, director of Birck Nanotechnology Center; Sethuraman Panchanathan, NSF director; U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind.; Purdue President Mung Chiang; and Karen Plaut, Purdue executive vice president for research.

Purdue Lunabotics will be one of dozens of college teams from around the country that have designed and built remote-controlled mining robots capable of performing proposed construction operations on a simulated Lunar regolith surface.

Brinton will join a cohort of esteemed scholars to share their research discoveries with a broad engineering audience of IEEE members.

These students help with classes as undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs), are integral parts of research groups, embark on incredible design projects, and perform all manner of service to the department through student societies and other volunteer groups.

A team comprised of faculty from Purdue Libraries, the School of Engineering Education (ENE), and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was awarded $542,660 from the National Science Foundation to build data lifecycle ethical management (DLEM) competencies in undergraduate student researchers, with emphasis on the ethical handling of data.

Giorgio is a visiting research scholar under the supervision of Saurabh Bagchi, Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Joerg Appenzeller and Shreyas Sundaram are among fifteen leading academic researchers to receive this honor.

In partnership with SEMI, Semiconductor Industry Association, Semiconductor Research Corp. and Global Semiconductor Alliance, Purdue University will this spring once again host a CHIPS summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together global allies as well as industry and academic stakeholders to examine wide-ranging solutions at scale to address the future of U.S. innovation in microelectronics and the semiconductor workforce.

The Center on AI for Digital, Autonomous and Augmented Aviation (AIDA3) will deliver innovations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous systems, focusing on developments that can be scaled up as demand for the technology grows.

Hiccups and failures of consumer cyber-physical systems like smart gadgets and appliances are inconvenient and annoying.