Purdue online master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering all rank No. 1 for 2022, just as they were in 2021. Additionally, Engineering Management rose to No. 1 in its category, up two spots from a year ago. The online Civil Engineering master’s is No. 2, also the same as 2021.

Purdue University’s College of Engineering recognized faculty, lecturers and other staff for their outstanding dedication to teaching Boilermaker Engineers.

In July of 2020, exciting news was reported: a team of researchers had discovered strong evidence for fractional statistics of anyons, a quasiparticle thought to exist at the time, but never proven until observed in the lab of Dr. Michael Manfra, Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University.

Saurabh Bagchi, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science (by courtesy), was elected to the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors for a three-year term that began Jan. 1, 2022.

Ashwin Boddeti, a graduate student with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition by Optica (formerly OSA). This competition recognizes the innovation, research and presentation excellence of students presenting their work during Frontiers in Optics (FiO).

Sanjay Rao, professor of electrical and computer engineering for Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Rao was nominated for outstanding scientific contributions to computer networking, especially Internet Video Streaming, and Network Verification and Synthesis.

The Spark Challenge is a campus-wide, corporate-sponsored design competition, hosted by Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in partnership with the ECE Student Society (ECESS).

Ever since the Casimir effect has been realized, physicists have made efforts to study it- both theoretically and experimentally- attempting to create functioning devices. Tongcang Li, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at Purdue, and his team have now created a functional device using the quantum vacuum.

A team of Purdue researchers led by professors Vladimir M. Shalaev, Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of ECE, and Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of ECE, has discovered single-photon emitters in silicon nitride that have the potential to enable direct, scalable, and low-loss integration of quantum light sources with a well-established on-chip platform.

Santokh Badesha, Adjunct Professor for Innovation with Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to the rank of fellow with the National Academy of Inventors.